Instagram plans to add music to Notes

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Instagram's Yahoo! Messenger-like Notes feature is getting music. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company is testing a way to add music to Notes. Similar to how it's done on individual posts and Reels, you can select a portion of a song on your Note. And your friends will see the name of the song and the artist you're playing. Instagram is also testing a way to add music to photo carousels.

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Instagram tests music for photo carousels

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You might have seen this around your Instagram feed already. But, in case you missed it, Meta is testing out the option to add songs to your photo carousels. CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned on his Instagram broadcast channel that the feature is live in a "few countries with more to come." 

Instagram already lets users add songs to individual photos. But it makes more sense to do this on a photo carousel. We hope this gets a wider release soon.

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Google Docs gets emoji reactions in the comments

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If you use emojis to react to messages at work, you can now do that with Google Docs. When you highlight the text you're commenting on, you can now “Add comment,” “Suggest edits,” or “Add emoji reactions.” There is now a new button on the bottom-right corner that gives you the picker for emojis. If someone left an emoji you agree with, you can just tap the emoji to add on. This feature is rolling out on the web in the coming weeks.

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Apple is reportedly looking to bring back a bit of its old Glances feature

Apple might be ready to overhaul watchOS. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports the company is working on redesigning the Apple Watch user interface, making widgets a "central part" of how you will interact with the smartwatch. Gurman reports that Apple plans to bring back elements of the Glances system it introduced in the original watchOS while borrowing the "style" of widgets Apple introduced with iOS 14 last year.

Gurman describes that the new interface will be "reminiscent" of the Siri watch face introduced with watchOS 4 in 2017. But the functions will work as an overlay for whatever watch face you want to use. It works similarly to widget stacks on iOS, so you can scroll through widgets you've placed on top of one another.

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