Instagram, the Meta-owned picture and video-sharing platform is reportedly testing a brand new function referred to as Unseen Story Highlights, which, because the title suggests, lets customers see content material from mates they could have missed.
In line with a current report by TechCrunch, these Story Highlights are from a consumer’s mutual followers and seem on the finish of the Story part, which seems in a separate part on the highest of the app.
In an announcement to the publication, a Meta spokesperson stated “We’re all the time engaged on new methods to assist folks join in Tales and are testing bringing current Highlights to the tip of the tray with a small group of individuals.”
#Instagram is testing a brand new Highlights Story function that shows highlights from profiles you comply with as Tales. It appears to work as a approach to catch up in the event you missed the unique content material
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With Instagram now full of random Reels and sponsored posts, the brand new performance is beneficial because it offers customers a fast approach to sustain with the most recent updates from their mates.
For these questioning, the unseen Story Highlights part gained’t present Tales from mates that disappear after a interval of 24 hours, however will solely show Story Highlights, that are curated lists of Tales customers have saved on their profile.
The corporate additionally advised the publication that customers will be capable of see unseen Story Highlights from final week. Nevertheless, it would solely seem whenever you get by way of all present Tales, that means chances are you’ll by no means see it in the event you comply with an entire lot of individuals and by no means get to the tip of the Tales part.
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