Instagram is introducing a brand new technique to have interaction with Stories. The photograph and video sharing platform has added a brand new Private Story Likes characteristic that permits customers to love Instagram Stories of others with out sending a direct message (DM). Previously, customers had solely choices to re-share the tales or reply to them with a remark. Also, responses shared on an Instagram Story have been displayed within the DM inbox of the customers. With the most recent replace, customers can mark their likes for the Stories with out cluttering their DM inbox.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri on Tuesday announced the rollout of Private Story Likes performance through a video on Twitter. With the most recent replace, you’ll be able to have interaction with a Story by tapping the center icon, like a daily feed put up. Tapping the like button positioned between Send Message choice and the paper airplane icon does not ship a DM notification to the consumer. Unlike common Instagram posts, Private Story Likes is not going to present a depend. They will seem within the viewer sheet, not in your DM thread with them, stated Mosseri.

The newest Private Story Likes characteristic was unveiled as a part of Instagram’s efforts to enhance the messaging expertise on the platform. In December final yr, Mosseri introduced that Instagram will deal with messaging and can double down work on controls to enhance transparency whereas itemizing the corporate’s common objectives for 2022.

Earlier this month, Instagram had added a set of recent options to make it simpler for customers to take away posts, feedback, and different actions from the platform. This permits customers to bulk delete or archive all of their content material together with posts, Stories, IGTV, and Reels together with their interactions like feedback, likes, story sticker reactions, and many others. Also, Instagram lets customers filter their content material and interactions by date and seek for previous feedback, likes, and tales replies from a particular date vary within the Your Activity part.