A new feature has been discovered that is under development on Instagram. It is a feature that allows Stories are answered with voice messages. Developer Alessandro Paluzzi, known for reverse engineering apps to research new features, found the feature, and last Saturday shared a screenshot of the new feature.
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It should be noted that not all the functionality that the platform develops ends up, in fact, reaching users in the stable version of the application, but it seems that this feature can already be part of the arsenal Instagram.
A new feature that will make Instagram more like Snapchat
If the feature was available to users in the stable version, Instagram would look more like Snapchat, which also has a feature to reply to shared stories with voice.
In addition, the platform will continue to develop the ability to reply to Stories with photos, such as the feature to reply to a Tweet with a photo on Twitter.
As shown in the screenshot Paluzzi shared, the microphone icon will be available next to the emoji for interactions.
According to other information from Paluzzi, Instagram is also enabling Share a post via a QR codein addition to the fact that the application will return to show a file Feed in chronological orderIt is even possible to customize the feed according to the accounts preferred by users according to the topics that interest them.
The user will be able to categorize the feed into three different segments: favorites, which can contain up to 50 specific accounts, below, which includes all the posts the user follows and the initial feed, which shows how they are at the moment, and edited according to the algorithm.
Resources, as of now, do not have a date to be officially released in the Meta app.
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