Instagram will let you put your favorite stories in your profiles

It might be taking away from the initial intention of the Instagram Story feature but as Instagram’s Yichen Wang justifies, “It’s a pretty carefree way to capture moments in your day, but it doesn’t mean they’re low-quality moments.” Instagram just updated its app to do a few new things. One is you now have the option to save in a private archive the stories you post. Another is you can pick the stories you have, put these in albums of sorts that you can name, and display these on top of your profile. The ability to create these albums hasn’t shown up on my phone yet but saving to archive is already available. Perhaps I need to start taking more Stories for the option to be available for me.

Source: Fast Company

Instagram tests out stop-motion camera in Stories

After taking tons of cues (or basically copying Snapchat, we should say), Instagram is turning to its more creative tools to keep its users engaged within its Stories feature. Joining the recently launched Superzoom tool, Instagram is trying out what it calls Stop Motion. This lets the Instagram Story camera take a long series of photos that the app stitches into a GIF you can post on the service. It won’t let you edit individual images but once its done recording, you can add things like text and stickers as you would your other stories. At the moment though, this isn’t available to all users and we can’t say if Instagram will roll this outside of testing. If you do have access to it, let us know what you think.

Source: Digital Trends