Facebook’s Instagram a photo-sharing app is quite popular among users all over the world. This app is used by users to share photos and to view Instagram stories in recent years.
The year 2020 was very special for Instagram, as this year the app included many new and useful features that users had been waiting for a long time. So, here we are talking about 5 features that have been added to Instagram in the year 2020.
Instagram Reels
If you have been a fan of TikTok, you will definitely love the Instagram Reels feature. After the ban of TikTok in India, Instagram grabbed this opportunity by both hands and launched reels in India. Which then later was launched all over the world. Users can create and share their short videos using the reel. At the same time, you can also react to the other short videos after watching them.
All in all this feature was clearly copied from TikTok and is doing good for the users in India especially as an alternative for now.
Vanish Mode
Vanish Mode in texts has been recently updated on Insta and can be extremely useful for you. This feature allows messages to disappear after a certain time limit. This feature is very similar to those in Telegram and Snapchat.
Messages disappear as soon as you left the chat display in the Vanish mode. To be in vanish mode you have to swipe up after you open the Instagram chat window. The good thing about this is that there is no fear of texting leaks, now.
Instagram Badges
The Instagram Badges feature has been recently rolled out. Through this feature, you can support your favorite creator on Instagram. You will have the option to buy badges on behalf of creators while watching their live videos.
After which the badge appears in front of the name of users who buy Instagram badges on a fixed amount. This works very similarly in terms of the badges used in the Discord and Youtube live.
Shopping
The shopping feature was added recently on Instagram. Now you can buy clothes and accessories from Instagram.
This feature attracted so much backlash from the users especially in countries where it was launched like the USA.
Data Saver
The data saver feature is launched for only Android phones this year. After using this feature, you will not have to face the hassle of data exhaustion. If you want to use the Instagram Data Saver feature, you need to go to settings and turn on the data saver.
