Meta’s photo-sharing app brings three new features to its messaging, with better ways to share your music tastes.
Instagram has added three messaging improvements to its app that should make conversations easier to manage and more colorful. The updates include the ability to quickly share a post, share a short clip of a music track, and customize the chat background to one that’s not black and white anymore. Meta’s photo-sharing platform has been busy, recently enabling Instagram on the web, the return of the chronological feed, and a bigger focus on helping users message each other in easier ways. These three features build on that last promise, especially in sharing posts without leaving your feed. Quick send will enable you to hold down the share button on a post in your feed, and quickly send it to a friend or family member without going anywhere else in the app. You can also share 30-second clips of music tracks from Apple Music, with Amazon Music and Spotify integration coming soon. Finally, there’s the new ability to change the background of the person you’re chatting with, which means you can finally get rid of the black or white background.
