Let me know if you have any other ideas of things we can do to improve the messaging experience on Instagram. Go through your stories, and if you see you’re interested in, send a little like. I said at the beginning of the year that messaging was a key priority for us, and a big piece of that is focusing DMs on conversations between you and the people you care about.

The idea here is to make sure that people can express more support for each other, but also to clean up the DMs a little bit. So you can do so without worrying about cluttering up your messages.Īnd if they want to see all their likes, or if you post a story and want to see your likes, you can go to the viewer sheet for that story and there will be a little heart icon from any viewer who actually liked that story. And if you tap on it, it’ll send the author of that story a like, and that like will show up on the viewer sheet, not in your DM thread with them. So now as you go through Stories, between send message and that little paper airplane, there will be a heart icon. “Today, we’re rolling out story likes - the ability to like any story you see on Instagram. Rather, they appear as hearts next to people’s handles in your Stories view sheet. Screenshot To take a screenshot from within Instagram, just open the Story and press Power and Volume Down for Android Screen Record Swipe down from the top of the screen and locate the. Likes on stories are private and do not have counts. Starting to roll out today, you can now send some love by liking people’s stories without sending a DM. For all the known details about Instagram story likes, see the announcement from Mosseri below:

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