Instagram rolls out new private Story likes feature

The Meta-owned photograph sharing platform has introduced the launch of the brand new non-public Story likes characteristic.

“We’re excited to announce non-public Tales likes, the place you’ll be able to react to Tales with out sending a DM. The likes are non-public, do not need counts and solely seem as hearts subsequent to folks’s handles in your Tales view sheet,” Instagram tweeted from its official account.

Customers will now be capable of see a coronary heart icon on Tales and might like one other consumer’s Story from that icon.

The writer of that story will be capable of see the likes obtained of their viewer sheet as a substitute of their direct messages. There can be a coronary heart icon in opposition to the names of the customers who’ve appreciated a Story within the writer’s viewer sheet.

“The concept right here is to make it possible for folks can specific extra help for one another but additionally to scrub up DMs a bit of bit. I mentioned originally of the yr, that messaging was a key precedence for us and an enormous piece of that’s focusing DMs on the conversations between you and the folks that you simply care about,” Instagram Chief Adam Mosseri defined in a video saying the characteristic.

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February 15, 2022