Instagram is now letting users send a GIF in direct messages. The feature is slowly rolling out to users. To see if you have it on your Instagram account, look for the GIF button right next to the Write a message… input field on the DM screen. 1. Go to...
Instagram will soon let you tag someone in videos too. The company has updated their support page to show instructions on how to tag people in a video. Until now, you could only @mention someone in your videos on Instagram. TechCrunch earlier this month reported that the feature is currently...
Instagram is rolling out a new feature called “Your Activity” dashboard which tells you the time you spent using the app on a daily basis. You can find this option under the user Settings within the Instagram app. The activity dashboard is rolling out to both iOS and Android devices....
Being a smartphone focused video sharing platform, IGTV is entirely different from YouTube, FaceBook, and other similar services. If you’re a professional and looking to upload quality videos to IGTV, you need to do certain things differently for IGTV. IGTV only supports vertical videos. It is a considerable change...
Instagram has finally released the much-awaited video calling feature to their iOS and Android apps. To make a call to someone on Instagram, you must follow them, and they must follow you back. You cannot make a call to someone who doesn’t follow you on Instagram. This restriction is...
Instagram recently released video calling feature for its users. The new feature is available on both Android and iOS devices, and users can make cross-platform video calls to their friends and family members through the new service. To make a video call on Instagram, you’ve to go to the...
The IGTV by Instagram uses a vertical format for video which isn’t very popular among professional creators yet. Users prefer to shoot videos in the landscape format only because it’s wide and our computers/TV screens feature the same aspect ratio. But for smartphone users, IGTV’s format...
It has only been a day since Instagram launched IGTV, but creators around the world have already started uploading vertical videos to the new video sharing platform. As a user, if you like a video on IGTV and would like to save or download it for offline viewing, there’s...
Unlike YouTube, IGTV is built around the needs of smartphone users primarily. The service even displays videos in vertical format only because that’s how we hold our smartphones. The IGTV video requirements are also optimized for smartphone users. The maximum file size for a video which is 15 seconds...
The all-new video sharing platform by Instagram — IGTV — has launched and you can start posting videos to IGTV right now using the dedicated apps for IGTV available for both iPhone and Android devices. To be able to post on IGTV, you must create an IGTV channel of yourself using your...
IGTV doesn’t let users upload videos in landscape format because it’s built strictly around the ways we hold our smartphones naturally — in vertical mode. So if you upload a video shot in the landscape to IGTV, it’ll be cropped to fit and displayed vertically in the app....
Being a mobile-first service, Instagram’s new IGTV video sharing platform is built around the needs of smartphone users. The app only allows vertical videos, and it supports only one video format — MP4. You cannot upload videos recorded in any other format than MP4 on IGTV. And of course, the...
Instagram’s IGTV video sharing platform is live now, and if you want to upload to IGTV, you must create an IGTV channel first. Creating your IGTV channel is the simplest thing ever. All you gotta do is install the IGTV app on your iPhone or Android device, log in...
Instagram’s new video sharing platform is receiving a great response from users all around the world. If you’re a creator and looking forward to creating an IGTV channel of yourself, below is a quick guide on how to do that. Creating an IGTV channel is easier from the...
Facebook-owned Instagram has announced its own IGTV video service that competes directly with YouTube. The new service lets creators upload videos of up to 1 hour in length. You can get IGTV on your iPhone and Android devices with the dedicated IGTV app launched by Instagram earlier today. Below are...