Instagram adds 'walkie-talkie' styled voice messages
The feature now allows users to send audio messages to each other that can be up to one minute long. These messages can be sent either through a private or group chat.
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You can use this feature by holding down the microphone button and releasing it once you want to send the message. You can slide your finger to the left and trash it if you wish to re-record.
The photosharing app is trying to keep up with the new trend of voice messages as its parent company, Facebook Messenger rolled out the same feature many years back. WhatsApp also allows users to send voice recordings without any time constraints.
Most users aren't really in favour of this new feature and instead insisted that the algorithm must be worked on. They took to Twitter to discuss the feature.
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Instagram stopped becoming instagram..
Oh god... that’s going to be bad lol
Can we have chronological order back? How about an option to stop videos from autoplaying? Nobody asked for this!
Please stop! You can’t even improve the video quality ☹️
How bout desktop access to Direct? It’s one of the past items I need to go completely phone-less at home.
We have literally 1000 ways to do that. All we want from YOU is chronological posting.
How about you let me make a poll instead of adding something else I can’t use?
Can you just fix first your algorithm before adding new features over and over again
The update is rolling out for iOS and Android version and should show up on your app once its updated.