Instagram merges permanent and disappearing personal messages

There used to be two different places for ephemeral and permanent messages on Instagram’s Direct feature. But that’s changing with this new update. The disappearing messages will now show up in the permanent chat thread. The ephemeral messages will still disappear after the photo and video have been viewed but a note will be left behind mentioning something was shared there before. The change is made to make it easier for you to keep track of your conversations on the service.

Source: The Verge

You can now save Instagram live videos

When being able to save live streams was first omitted from the service, Instagram’s product head Kevin Weil says this was to take away pressure from users to live stream since it won’t be kept permanently. Now, it seems Instagram is backtracking and is following in the footsteps of Facebook’s own Live feature and Twitter’s Periscope. Users can now save their live videos. You just need to tap on Save in the upper right corner of the window to save the video. It won’t save anything interaction you’ve had while you were live, though. When your done saving it’ll be saved in your gallery or camera roll but won’t be in the app anymore. The update is coming to version 10.12 of the app on iOS and Android.

Source: The Verge

Instagram lets you share multiple photos and videos in one post

In case you missed the news, Instagram now lets you share up to 10 photos or videos at a time. It has been hinted in the past but now it’s finally making an appearance. Whether you love it or hate it, the feature is here. You can use a combination of photos and videos to share and have your followers swipe through them if they want. These posts will only carry one caption and will be square only for now. You can see if a post has multiple photos based on the blue dots at the bottom of it. You can just swipe left or right to see what else is in the post.

Instagram touts this’ll make it easy for people who don’t want to pick a single photo to encapsulate an event or it could be used for recipes or DIY projects. What do you think? Is this something you’d want to use? The update is available to both Apple and Android users.

Instagram now supports wide colour capture on iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus

Apple's latest iPhones can shoot brighter, more detailed and wider colour gamut photos. Instagram has responded in kind by enabling wide colour capture support which brings all that detail, depth and colour on Instagram snap. 

Even better, Live Photos now import seamlessly and automagically into Instagram in the form of Boomerang videos which have recently gained renewed popularity for some reason. Best of all these new iPhone 7 features have been trickling out automatically so users don't need to do anything, if you have supported iPhones, they are most likely running the latest features already.

Source: Engadget