Now Insta Stories Update Can Use Old Photos!

For those of you who like to share photos and videos via Insta Stories, there is the latest update from Instagram Stories! If so far you can only use photos or videos taken no more than 24 hours, but now you can use old school photos aka photos and videos stored in your smartphone gallery without any restrictions on the date and time the photo/video was taken!

This nostalgic or throwback effect was created to provide an opportunity for Instagram users to express and be creative through their videos and photos. The latest update for Insta Stories has been rolled out for all Instagram users. You only need to update your application via the App Store or Play Store.

Using the updated Insta Stories is also very easy! Here’s how:

• Open Instagram and tap the camera icon at the top left corner to enter Insta Stories
• Swipe your smartphone screen from the bottom up to select photos or videos to include in Stories
• You will see the words ‘Last 24 Hours’ marking photos or videos taken within 24 hours. To go to the Gallery and post old photos, you just have to scroll down to the bottom
• On-screen notification will change from ‘Last 24 hours’ to ‘Gallery’
• Just select the photo or video you want to share
• You will see that the photo ladder is taken automatically in the photo to be shared. Don’t worry, you can delete this date or change the color as you wish
• Swipe left to change the filter which is now named after the most popular cities in the world. Jakarta is also there, you know
• Add stickers or text to beautify the photo and click ‘Your Story’ at the bottom left of the screen to post it on your Insta Stories
• Done!

Stop Motion Feature For Insta Stories

After releasing the Supezoom feature on Halloween for Insta Stories, Instagram is reportedly testing another new feature for Insta Stories, namely Stop Motion! The Stop Motion technique is very popular among photography lovers. With Stop Motion, photos can look more dynamic and cool.

This feature will reportedly allow Instagram users to take a number of photos which will then be assembled by Instagram into animated GIFs to be posted on the user’s Insta Stories. Instagram has also confirmed that it is testing this new feature.

Quoted from the detikINET page for the Stop Motion feature, users will not be able to edit the photos taken into Stop Motion. Users can add text, stickers and more after they finish taking photos and press the ‘Done’ button.

There is no further information when this feature will be available for Instagram users and there is also no guarantee if this Instagram feature will be available globally or only for certain areas. The development of these new features is Instagram’s effort to pamper its users so that they are more comfortable to linger on this photo-sharing application.

In fact, it can be said that many of the features in Instagram’s Insta Stories cheat on the features found on Snapchat. For example, the Boomerang feature is very popular among Instagram users. Then proceed with the Instagram face filter feature with various funny frames, then there is also the Superzoom feature and the last one is Stop Motion which is being developed.

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