Instagram users will soon be able to search using keywords on the app. The company announced that users in the UK, US, Ireland, and Canada, and other countries will be able to search on the platform using keywords. Users in India and other countries where the feature has not been rolled out can only search using hashtags.

 

For instance, if you want to search “cute dogs”, you currently use the #cutedogs in your searches or an account that bears the same name that you are looking for. However, the new settings will make it easier for the users to get to the page or picture they are looking for. You will be taken to the page even if you search without the correct hashtag.

The company did not reveal whether they will share exact results upon using keywords but the company spokesperson told The Verge that it will machine learning to find the closest results. The spokesperson said that the company is looking at “a number of factors,” including the “type of content, captions, when it was posted,” and uses machine learning to “find the highest quality content that’s relevant to you.”

“The search is limited to general interest topics and keywords that are within Instagram’s community guidelines,” the spokesperson told the Verge.
Initially, users should use words that are more common such as puppies, flowers, cars instead of specific keywords like Qanon, Biden, and more. The feature will be rolled out to users in Canada, the US, UK., Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland from today. The Facebook-owned company is yet to announce whether the feature will be rolled out in other countries including India or not.
Apart from this feature, Instagram has also announced that it is expanding the Guides feature to all users. Instagram Guides was launched earlier this year. The feature as the name suggests allowed users to share tips, curate places, posts, and other things that they love.

When you tap on a Guide, you will be able to see posts and videos by the creator, you are following. This would mainly involve useful tips on mental health, advice on something, or information on coronavirus. However, If you want to delve deeper into a Guidepost, you have to tap on the image or video to view the original Instagram post by the curator. Guides can also be shared with your Stories and you can also Direct Message it to someone from your friend list, just the way you do with other posts or pictures.

Source: indiatoday

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Instagram launched ten years ago today: the photo-sharing app first hit the App Store on October 6th, 2010, a few months after the release of the iPhone 4. To celebrate, Instagram has added an easter egg to the app that lets you change its home screen icon.

The icons available include the classic Polaroid-style camera designs that were used for more than five years. There are themed variations on the current logo, too, including Pride rainbow colors and monochrome options. The app update also includes another feature: a private map and archive of your stories from the past three years.

To access the new icons, go to the settings within the app and do a long swipe down on the screen to reveal some emoji. Once you’ve swiped down far enough, the icons will be unlocked and you’ll see a message from Instagram.

Here’s an example of how it works:

Here’s a vid of the secret! ?? pic.twitter.com/ZlRIWWa0s7

— Patrick Kosmowski (@kosmowskipat) October 6, 2020

The icons Easter egg still appears to be in the process of rolling out — I’ve got it to work on a couple of phones, but some don’t have it yet.

It sounds like the icons will only be available during October. Instagram’s message reads “this month we’re inviting you to change your app icon to your favorite,” so don’t get too attached.

Source: TheVerge

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Instagram continues to focus on improving its live video experience, and today, it announced multiple small changes that’ll make streaming on the platform and then saving those live videos easier. The biggest update is that streamers are no longer limited to 60-minute broadcasts — they can go live for up to four hours. This extended timeframe will be available to all Instagram users globally, so long as they have no history of IP or policy violations.

People will also be able to view their own live streams in their private archives, similar to Stories and Posts, for up to 30 days after they air. They can choose to download the content and post it elsewhere. Finally, Instagram is adding a “Live Now” section to IGTV where people will find content to watch live at that moment.

Taken altogether, Instagram is clearly investing in live-streaming while the format is still hot because of the pandemic. In its release about the changes, the company mentions the longer live timeframe giving fitness instructors the ability to teach for longer as well as giving activists trying to connect with their community more time for conversation.

Generally, people are substituting live-streaming for anything they did in-person, including shopping, so Instagram is giving more time to do that. At the same time, the company is hoping live videos will keep people in the app for longer, especially given that lives are something they can’t watch at any other time. There are lots of platforms for people to choose from when they go live, but Instagram is trying to make itself competitive and the place to be.

Source: Theverge

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Facebook’s latest take on a signature Snapchat feature is arriving today, and it’s called Vanish Mode. First announced as part of its big September redesign of Messenger, Vanish Mode is an ephemeral messaging mode for both Facebook Messenger and Instagram that will you let you send texts, photos, voice messages, emoji, and stickers that disappear immediately once they’re viewed by other parties and the chat window is closed.

Some users may have already noticed Vanish Mode in the chat settings on Messenger, as Facebook has been rolling out it slowly to some users since the redesign was announced two months ago. And on Instagram, some elements of Vanish Mode are already part of the core direct messaging feature set, including disappearing photos and videos once a piece of media has been viewed. Vanish Mode is similar in ways to Messenger’s existing secret conversation mode that lets you enter an end-to-end encrypted chat that’s saved only on your device, although the new mode is designed to delete anything sent forever once it’s been viewed.

For Facebook, ephemeral messaging still represents a way to attract younger smartphone users who have flocked to chat apps and platforms where they don’t have to post publicly and risk being haunted by social media posts later on in life. While Snapchat popularized ephemeral messaging among US teens with Stories and its DM design, Facebook has since adopted many of its rival’s features and implemented them throughout Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp for users of all age groups around the world.

Vanish Mode is just the latest of Facebook’s takes on the trend and a notable addition considering CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced last year his company would strategically shift away from the News Feed and public posts and more toward private messaging and groups.

Vanish Mode will appear in both apps as a distinct option you can turn on and off in the settings of any particular chat message. You can also enter the mode by swiping up on a chat window (Vanish Mode is only available for one-on-one chats at the moment, and not group threads). The mode will then enable disappearing messages and other chat interactions, with the option to turn it off located at the top of the chat window or by swiping down again.

Facebook says the mode will be opt-in only, meaning you have to agree to enter Vanish Mode once another user in the chat has enabled it. Messenger and Instagram will also notify you when a screenshot of a chat is taken while the mode is enabled. Facebook says you can report individuals over Vanish Mode chat conduct, although it’s unclear how much of the conversation Facebook will be able to review for violations.

Vanish Mode should be available for Messenger in the US as well as some other countries starting today, Facebook says. And it will go live on Instagram in the US and other countries at a later date.

Source: indiatoday

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