Instagram update lets you follow hashtags

Instagram has been steadily adding on more and more features these days. The latest addition is the ability to follow hashtags on the service like you would accounts. All you need to do is search for a topic that interests you and tap on the follow button. Relevant posts that have these tags will show up in both your feed and stories bar. You can also unfollow hashtags the same way. Your profile will now also show the hashtags you follow. If your account is set to private, then only your followers will see what hashtags you follow.

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

Take advantage of Instagram filters without posting a photo

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Sometimes you don’t want to tinker around with a photo and just put a filter on it to add that bit of drama. And sure there are many photo editing apps out there but sometimes you just want to slap on the Gingham filter on your photo for that nostalgic, retro feel. How do you get the effect without having to post on Instagram? How to Geek suggests turning your phone into airplane mode just when you’re about to post.

Go through the process of editing your photo and once you’re ready to hit share, make sure your phone is in airplane mode. This will prompt Instagram to try and upload photo but it won’t be able to. At the same time, the image will be saved to your camera roll. And then you can just cancel the upload before you turn your phone’s cellular capabilities back on.

Source: Lifehacker

Instagram will soon let you post stories and save photos from your mobile web browser

Instagram looks to be adding more capabilities to its mobile web browser experience. The Instagram.com site will soon let you share stories right from it. But the experience will be a bit more limited than when you use the app. You can only add a photo and add text to said photos. All the other stickers and doodles will only be accessible to via the Instagram app. Similar to the app, you can access this feature on the top left corner.

On top of this, Instagram will also let you save posts you’d like to revisit at a later time. You just need to tap on the bookmark icon on the top right corner of the page. Instagram is bringing these features to all users in the coming weeks.