Instagram presents numerous new features designed to help users connect with their friends and followers on the photo and video-sharing site Notes, frank stories, group profiles, collaborative collections, and other additional features have been added to the Meta-owned service. The notes feature will allow users to update their friends using text and emojis, and replies to notes will land in the user’s inbox as direct messages (DMs).

On Tuesday, the business unveiled the new features in a blog post. The first feature, notes, would allow users to create a short post of up to 60 characters, including text and emoji. Users can share notes with followers they follow back or others from their current “Close Friends” list by going to the top of their inbox. Once completed, it will appear at the top of their friends’ inboxes for 24 hours, much like an Instagram story. Users can view the responses to their notes in their direct messages.

According to Instagram, the notes feature will provide people with a more casual and spontaneous method to express themselves and interact with their friends and followers. The new “add your nomination” function, which you can access by tapping the “pass it on” button, also lets users nominate others to participate in “Add Yours” on stories.

Instagram presents candid stories:

Meanwhile, Instagram’s candid tales feature will allow users to take candid photo from the stories camera and share it with their friends and followers in real time. Only those who share their own candid story will be able to see it. Meta is also testing a similar function for Facebook, which looks to be inspired by the BeReal programme, which is gaining popularity globally.

The Meta-owned service has now included a group profiles function, which allows users to create and join a profile to exchange posts and stories with their friends in a dedicated, shared group. It will only be shared with members of the group. Furthermore, the app is testing a collaborative collections feature – a new way to interact with friends based on the same interests.

Users will be able to store posts in the group or private DMs in a collaborative collection. They must begin or contribute to a collaborative collection by saving a post directly from their feed. According to the company, they can even send a post to a friend via DM and then save it.

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