After a few months of testing, the ability to send and reply to private messages directly from the Instagram website is finally available to all users . This means you no longer have to use your smartphone to do something that's much more convenient on a computer.
Instagram DMs come to the web version
At the beginning of the year, Instagram began a test with a small group of users, allowing them to send and reply to private messages through a web browser . This meant they no longer had to use the app on their smartphones to do so.
This may seem like a small thing to you, especially if you simply enter the platform to see what your contacts post and little else. But if you are a journalist, an influencer, the person in charge of managing brand profiles or a very intensive user, you will know that the opposite is true.
Because receiving a notification with a private message and having to go to your smartphone to read it or to send one to a particular group or user is not as comfortable as doing it directly from your computer. Not only for the fact of changing the device, it is that a larger screen and the computer keyboard will always be more comfortable than what your phone offers.
*Sliding into your DMs*
Now you can get and send Instagram Direct messages on desktop, no matter where you are in the world? pic.twitter.com/CT2SwuxHTv
— Instagram (@instagram) April 10, 2020
This new feature is available to everyone starting now . If you visit the website and don't see it yet, don't worry. The global rollout will be complete within a few hours. So, when you log back in, you'll see the new messages section. From there, you can select received messages or send new ones to other users.
Undoubtedly great news as we say for the most intensive users and demonstration that together with stories and groups, private messages are experiencing significant growth on Instagram.
Upload photos, videos and even stories, when?
Instagram's changes and updates are always welcome, especially when, as in this case, they affect the use of the platform via the web. But it's true that there's something they should have done already, and many of us are still waiting for: allowing the posting of photos, videos, and even stories.
We all know that the original focus of Instagram was to post content captured from the phone itself, but that stopped making sense many years ago. Many users post images taken with their DSLR cameras, created in applications like Photoshop, or videos we edit on desktop software.
Therefore, although today part of these things can be done by "cheating" the platform by indicating that it is accessed from a mobile device, the ideal is that the possibility be given officially and with all the advantages (or almost , with the exception of filters) to do it from the web and accessing with a full browser.
However, it will be necessary to continue to be patient, like that of those users who continue to hope that at some point there will be an application optimized for the iPad.