Instagram would stop responding to stories with voice messages

Instagram is evaluating the possibility of allowing its users to reply to others' stories with voice messages, and not just with emojis or text, the two options currently available.

The data comes from information disseminated by researcher Alessandro Paluzzi on his Twitter profile. The user practices reverse engineering to get ahead of the new features that will be introduced by applications. Thanks to that, he was able to identify that the social network “is working on the ability to respond to 'Stories' with voice messages,” he reported.

Paluzzi accompanies his statement with a screenshot in which a microphone icon appears inside the answer bar between the space to write and the space to send a gif. If it became a reality, this new feature would bring Instagram Stories even closer to Snapchat, the app that also allows you to respond to stories shared by others with audio.

The company is also working on the response to Stories with images, another novelty that the developer has shared on Twitter and which is displayed with the button that allows you to attach photos (in the place of the audio recording icon).

Another novelty that can reach Instagram is that of being able to share a post with a QR code. This was also anticipated by Paluzzi this Sunday.

The researcher accompanies this new advance with another screenshot that shows the possibility of sharing a publication via QR code, just below the rest of the options and before “Copy link”.

But that's not all. Apparently, the social network has also been working on other options such as the possibility of gathering exclusive content for subscribers.

One of the most outstanding new features of recent times on this platform is the possibility that users were given to better control the content they want to see in their Feeds thanks to the fact that it incorporated two different views on the home screen. So for about 5 days it has been possible to select from three options: Home, Favorites and Following.

This is a very popular option among users as it offers a customization option that was not available until recently. Next, what each of the views offers.

The Home option is the way that is currently used, by default, as a Feed on Instagram. This option will continue to provide a combination of content from people and accounts followed, ranked by algorithms, other recommended content that might be liked by the user, and more. The “Home Page” will be the default view, so every time you access the Feed, you can still see it that way.

Favorites, on the other hand, shows the posts of the selected accounts in chronological order. That is, you can choose the favorite accounts from which you don't want to lose any content.

Up to 50 accounts can be added to the list and changes made at any time; people are not notified when they are added or removed. Accounts' posts in the Favourites list will also be displayed higher up in the Home Feed, and are displayed with a star icon.

The Following option shows posts only from people who follow each other. “See the latest posts from the accounts you follow, in the order they were published.” Both Favorites and Following will display posts in chronological order, so you can quickly catch up on recent posts.

To select how you want to view the content, you have to go to the option that says Instagram in the upper left corner of the home page and make the corresponding selection there.

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