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Instagram borrows live location sharing from WhatsApp

Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, keeps borrowing features from one app for another. In a new move, it has done the same by borrowing WhatsApp's live location-sharing feature for Instagram. Instagram now has Live Location Sharing feature Earlier today, Instagram announced that it is adding some new features to Instagram. The app is […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
2 weeks ago

WhatsApp status to get Instagram’s Like button

Brian Acton and Jan Kou started WhatsApp as an instant messaging app. However, since Meta took over the platform, the brand has been slowly adding social media features to it, especially from Instagram. Now, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company has started testing another widely used Instagram feature to WhatsApp. According to a new report from WABetaInfo, the […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
4 months ago

Samsung’s Live Translate feature works on all popular voice calling apps

One of the most talked-about features of Galaxy AI is Live Translate. It uses on-device AI processing to translate voice calls to your preferred language. Earlier, the feature was limited to regular voice calls, but Samsung has now enabled it for almost all third-party voice calling apps. Galaxy AI's Live Translate feature works with all […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
5 months ago

Meta AI launched in India on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp

Meta announced Meta AI, the company’s first Gen AI-powered virtual assistant, for Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, last year. Back then, It was powered by the Llama 2 large language model (LLM) and available only in the United States. Earlier this year, the company upgraded Meta AI with Llama 3 and made it available in […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
6 months ago

Samsung may bring a way to turn off Super HDR in Instagram

Samsung introduced the Super HDR feature for the Galaxy S24. It aims to offer a more immersive experience while shooting and viewing photos and videos, and it is also integrated into social media apps like Instagram. However, some people don't like how Super HDR works while viewing images and videos on Instagram. So, Samsung is […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
7 months ago

Instagram gets four new very cool stickers

Meta has announced that it is adding four new stickers to Instagram — Add Yours Music, Frames, Reveal, and Cutouts — so that you can “kick off music trends, create your own custom stickers from your photos or videos, post a secret story and more” which should help you “get more creative in Stories.” Let’s […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
7 months ago

You can set Instagram Camera as lockscreen shortcut on One UI 6.1

Before the official announcement of the Galaxy S24 series, it was reported that users could set Instagram Camera and Snapchat Camera as the lockscreen shortcuts. However, during the launch, there was no mention of that feature. It has started appearing now on phones running One UI 6.1. One UI 6.1 brings Instagram Camera lockscreen shortcut […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
8 months ago

Instagram now lets you edit messages, turn off read receipts, and more

Meta has announced six new features for the messaging functionality on Instagram. These new features are the ability to edit messages, pin chats at the top of the inbox, turn read receipts on or off, mark stickers as favorites in a chat, and reply to messages with photos, videos, voice messages, GIFs, and stickers, and […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
9 months ago

Instagram is stealing another feature from Snapchat

In a new post on X/Twitter, Alessandro Paluzzi has revealed that Meta is working on a new feature for Instagram called Friend Map and he has also posted screenshots of the feature, spilling beans on the next big thing coming to the social media platform. Going by the information he shared, Friend Map, as the […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
10 months ago

Threads starts showing trending topics in the US

In October 2023, Meta started testing a feature on Threads that shows the trending topics (topics that people are discussing the most at the moment) on the platform. Now, the Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, has announced that the company has started rolling out the feature to a limited number of people on a test […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
10 months ago

Instagram testing a more private space for your profile

Under Meta, Instagram and WhatsApp have started to grow faster, as they now have more resources to add more features that users have requested. Over the past few years, both apps have added dozens of new features; sometimes, they can also get over the top. One such new feature is currently being tested for Instagram. Instagram […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
11 months ago

Galaxy S24 enhances your photos and videos with Super HDR!

Samsung's new phones—Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, and Galaxy S24 Ultra—have many new features and improvements. Samsung has focused a lot on improving the screens, cameras, and performance of the phones by using an improved OLED panel, better camera algorithms, and a newer processor. And it's not just about capturing better images and videos. The company […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
11 months ago

Galaxy S24 offers great camera quality even on social media apps

Samsung claims its new set of flagship phones offers better camera quality in varied situations. The Galaxy S24 and the Galaxy S24+ use the same camera hardware as their predecessors, but they can reportedly provide better image quality due to an improved processor. The Galaxy S24 Ultra is the only new phone with better camera […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
11 months ago

Instagram introduces Backdrop, a tool to replace backgrounds in photos using AI

At the Connect event that was held in September this year, Meta announced Backdrop for Instagram, a tool powered by generative AI that can replace the background in an image with the one that you describe to it in the text format. Back then, the company hadn’t revealed an exact timeline for the release of […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
12 months ago

Instagram now lets you be more creative with Notes, lets you add videos

Meta has been on a feature-addition spree for all its social media and messaging apps over the past few years. The company is making it extremely easy to express yourself. Now, it is sprucing up the Notes feature on Instagram, making it better by adding videos and supporting better replies. Instagram Notes get more feature-rich […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
12 months ago

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