We share special moments on Instagram Stories with many people, whether it is a large birthday celebration or delicious dinner.
As 2021 comes to an end, Instagram launched Playback, a feature that allows you to recall your best moments of the year.
You can select from up to 10 stories in your archive and share them with your followers using Playback.
Instagram’s new Playback feature allows you to reminisce about your best moments of the year.
Instagram published a blog announcement about the Playback feature that will launch globally on today’s Instagram.
It said, “We all feel the same feeling after another difficult year. January 2021 feels like it was only a few years ago.”
This year, from the February lockdown walk to reconnecting with old friends in July and your first holiday in September, was both memorable as well as mundane.
“That is why Instagram will help users reminisce on their 2021 experiences this year – Enter Playback. It’s a new feature to IG Stories which allows people to reflect back on their year through Instagram Stories.
To share their stories with others, users can choose up to 10 Stories from their Stories Archive.
The stories you share will be included in a package that you can post to your profile.
‘Users will see a message on their feed inviting them to create their Playback – and if they see a 2021 Story, they will simply need to click on the 2021 sticker within this to view and post their own Playback story,’ Instagram added.
You can try this feature right away if you don’t want to wait. Playback is an extremely limited feature that will only be available for a couple of weeks.
The launch of Playback comes shortly after Instagram announced that the chronological feed is finally making a return.
You can try this feature right away if you don’t want to wait. Playback is an extremely limited feature that will only be available for a couple of weeks.
Yesterday, Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram confirmed that news at a Senate hearing. He said that the platform was ‘actively working towards’ the announcement.
While the exact date of the launch is still unknown, Mosseri indicated that the launch will be in the first quarter next year.
Insta continued the hearing of Mr Mosseri with additional information.
It stated that “We want people have meaningful control over what they experience,”
“We’re currently experimenting with Favourites. It allows you to select which posts you wish to see above others. Another option is to view posts of people you follow chronologically.
Instagram stated that the chronological feed will not be the one we saw back in 2015.
‘We want to be clear that we’re creating new options — providing people with more choices so they can decide what works best for them — not switching everyone back to a chronological feed,’ it added. “You can expect to see more of this in the coming year.”