How to add music to your Instagram Stories on Android
Now that the option has rolled out to Android, here’s how to add music to your Instagram Stories.
Instagram now allows you to add music to your Stories, coming soon to Android
Unlike with YouTube, Instagram users have been playing copyrighted music in the background of their Stories without the fear of any negative consequences. But this was done by just playing a song out of the phone while capturing a photo or video. Starting today, Instagram is adding an official feature for adding music to Stories.
‘Instagram Lite’ in testing on Android w/ photo feed, stories, weighs in at under 1MB
Over the past couple of years, many popular apps have debuted “lite” alternatives with smaller sizes and reduced performance requirements. Now, Instagram is debuting one of those as well.
Instagram update introduces video calling, new Explore tab w/ channel topics, more
Back in May, we found evidence that Instagram would soon bring video calling to its mobile app. Right on the heels of the introduction of IGTV, Instagram has now officially announced Video Chat, a new Explore tab with channel topics, and new camera effects.
Instagram officially launches IGTV, bringing long-form video to a new standalone app
After several weeks of rumors and speculation, Instagram has just announced that it will be bringing long-form vertical videos to the social network in the form of a standalone app called IGTV. To help get the ball rolling, Instagram has partnered with several well-known creators who will soon start publishing original content to the platform.
Instagram long-form videos reportedly launching today, with celebrity-led push
We heard earlier this month that Instagram was planning support for long-form videos of up to an hour, and a new report suggests that the feature will launch today, with a few more details emerging …
Instagram will no longer notify users if someone screenshots their Story
Back in February, some Instagram users started to receive notifications whenever someone took a screenshot of their Story. After experimenting with this feature for several months, Instagram has decided to cancel it altogether.
Instantly reshare Instagram Stories that you’ve been mentioned in to your Story
Last month, Instagram rolled out a new feature that allows you to share other people’s posts to your Story as a sticker. Now, if someone mentions you in their Instagram Story, you can reshare that picture or video to your Story.
Instagram plans new long-form video hub to compete with YouTube & Snapchat Discover
Following a report yesterday suggesting Instagram was adding support for videos up to 1 hour in length, TechCrunch now offers additional details on the company’s video plans. The report likens Instagram’s video plans to Snapchat’s Discover feature…
How to split long pre-recorded videos on Android for Instagram Stories
When posting to Instagram Stories, one secret to better-looking content is to upload pre-recorded videos. But with Instagram limiting clips to 15 seconds, you can’t just upload a long-form video. Thankfully, there is an app that cuts everything up into clips pretty easily.
Instagram might soon allow creators to publish hour-long videos
For some time now, Facebook has been trying to grow its “Watch” section with original video content and keep its users on its platform instead of them leaving for YouTube. This plan doesn’t appear to be working as planned, so Facebook is looking at bringing long-form videos to Instagram.
Spending too much time on Instagram? The app may let you know …
If you suspect you may be spending a little too much time using Instagram, you may soon be able to check out the total time you’ve spent using the app …
Report: Instagram’s upcoming ‘Music stickers’ will let you add soundtracks to your Stories
As it continues to expand its Stories platform, Instagram is seemingly planning a new feature that would make it easier to add music to Stories. According to TechCrunch, code found within the Instagram application indicates you could soon be able to add “Music stickers” to your Stories…
Instagram on Android can now simultaneously upload multiple photos and videos to Stories
If you’re a frequent user of Instagram, you’ve probably shared photos with your friends using Stories. But have you ever wanted to share multiple images or videos without having to keep going back into Stories and selecting something from your gallery? Well, you’re in luck because Instagram has just launched this feature in its Android app.
How to download your user data from Instagram
Because of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that goes live next month, Instagram has launched a new tool that lets you download your user data, similar to what Facebook allows its users to do. Here’s how it works.
How to use Instagram’s Focus Mode to take blurry background photos & videos on Android
Instagram recently announced a new Focus Mode that replicates a bokeh or background blur effect found on most modern Android smartphones. But instead of just working for photographs, the social network’s Focus Mode works for both stills and videos…
Third-party Instagram apps break as company limits API data in apparent privacy move
Third-party apps which rely on pulling data from Instagram are falling over as the company has started imposing limits on how much information is shared …
Report: Instagram developing its own Portrait Mode-like camera feature
Instagram appears to be testing yet another new feature for its mobile applications. Just days after code emerged hinting at support for audio and video calling in the app, TechCrunch now reports that there’s further evidence of Portrait Mode-like feature coming…
Instagram seemingly nearing launch of new audio & video calling feature
Instagram appears to be preparing to compete with Snapchat’s most popular feature. TechCrunch has dug up icons in the Android version of the Instagram application that suggest the company is hard at work on developing a new video calling feature…
How to automatically post your Instagram photos as full images on Twitter using IFTTT
When you post photos on your Instagram account, there are options to share the images with your other social media accounts, including Twitter. Unfortunately, when you share them this way, all it does is tweet out an Instagram link. Using IFTTT, you can have your actual Instagram photos automatically shared on Twitter. Here’s how…
How to automatically share your Instagram Story to Facebook on Android
If you’re working extremely hard to make content for your Instagram Story, you might as well share it on Facebook too, right? Well, you’re in luck because Instagram makes that extremely easy to do. Here’s how…
How to use the new Instagram Stories Type Mode on Android
Instagram has today updated its app with a new Type Mode for Stories. Now, instead of just sharing a photo, you can type messages to people using different calligraphy themes.
Here’s how to use Type Mode on Android as well as all of its various features…
How to add a GIF to your Instagram Story on Android
Recently, Instagram partnered with Giphy to allow its users to place GIFs on their stories. Here’s how to add GIFs to your photos or videos to make them stand out from the crowd…
You can now share to Instagram Direct messages w/ Android’s direct share menu
One of the best parts of Android is sharing, as the default share menu makes it easy to send content to just about anything you’d want. Now, Instagram is making it easier to share content in direct messages with that menu.