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Instagram It has a new app called Instants which lets you share unedited photos with your closest friends that will disappear once you view them. Sound familiar?
Declared dead immediately On Wednesday, a tool built into Instagram lets you send photos to your mutual followers and friends. Instant messages won’t let you edit the photos you send, but you can add captions if you wish.
If this feature sounds familiar, it’s because you can already send private disappearing photos through apps like Snapchat and Be real. As with those apps, photos sent via Instants will disappear after 24 hours. The app also has an undo button in case the image is not shared.
The instant app allows you to share unedited photos with your close friends.
To use instant messaging, all you have to do is open your Instagram inbox. You’ll see what appears to be a group of images in the bottom right corner of your screen. From there, choose who you want to send the photos to — close friends or followers you follow — and tap the white button below the camera to share. The instant messages will appear as the same set of images in the bottom right corner of their inboxes and will disappear after viewing them.
You probably have a bunch of questions – and so do we. First of all, you won’t be able to take screenshots of the instant messages you receive. If you’re the one sending it, it will be saved in a private folder that only you can access; You’ll be able to repost them in Stories if you choose.
However, privacy concerns abound with this new feature. Instagram says you can’t take a screenshot of a photo sent via Instants, but what’s to stop someone using another device to take a photo of it before it disappears? People have access to a lot of screen recording tools available that can help preserve receipts – even when they have a limited shelf life.
It goes without saying that people will undoubtedly use the Instant feature to send revealing photos to others. Instagram community standards, safety measures and parental controls will be in place here and will definitely be tested by this new tool. Meta stops end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs last week, so post photos at your own discretion.
An Instagram spokesperson did not immediately respond to our request for comment.
Instagram is also present now Try paid subscriptions Which offers features that aren’t available, like seeing who’s viewed your story multiple times, creating unlimited lists beyond just Close Friends, highlighting one story a week so more people see it, doing a super heart reaction to stories, extending your stories for another 24 hours and previewing stories without appearing as a viewer. Features are being tested in several countries at a price ranging from approximately $1 to $2.