Meta announces new features for Instagram direct messages, such as text editing or pinning chats to the top
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Meta announc in early March 2024 a number of new Instagram DM (direct message) features to help users “better connect with friends, express themselves, and organize their inbox.”
Whether it’s a typo or something just doesn’t sound right, users can now it Instagram direct messages up to 15 minutes after sending them, according to information post on Meta’s official blog, which we reli on for this news. To make a change, the user must long-press the sent message and then click on the “it” option that appears in the drop-down menu.
Secondly, Meta reports that
A up to three group chats can be pinn to the top of your Instagram inbox, similar to what you can do when pinning photos or videos in your fe, which is useful when optimizing an Instagram profile .
To move a chat to the top of the inbox, one nes to swipe left or tap and hold on the telemarketing sms phone number lead chat. The user then nes to click on the ‘Pin’ option. At any time, the conversation thread can be unpinn from that chat and replac with another one.
Meta has also announc, among other new features for Instagram direct messages, the possibility of activating or deactivating read receipts. To activate or deactivate it for all chats, you must follow the steps below, as list in the original post:
Go to account settings
Click on Messages and story replies.
Click ‘Show read receipts’
Turn read receipts on or off for all chats
More new features in Instagram direct messages
Below we continue to explain more new high investment costs features in Instagram direct messages announc by Meta :
Save favorite stickers
Since the beginning of March 2024, Instagram users can also save their favorite stickers in direct messages for easy access. To do this, long press on the sticker you want to save, which will appear at the top from this action.
Additionally, stickers, GIFs, videos, photos and voice messages are available when bz lists replying to a message. These can be access by long-pressing the message you want to reply to, selecting ‘Reply’ and viewing the different options available.