After a few months of testing, it finally reaches all users of Instagram the possibility of send and answer private messages from the website itself. In other words, you will no longer have to resort to your smartphone to do something that is much more comfortable from the computer.
Instagram DMs come to the web version
At the beginning of the year, Instagram began a test with a small group of users in which it allowed them to send and reply to private messages via web browser. That is, thanks to this, they would no longer have to go to the application on their smartphone 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 will be available to everyone from now on. If you enter the web and it does not appear, don't worry. In a matter of hours the global deployment will be complete. So, when you log in to the web again, you will see that this new section for messages appears. From it you can select the 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?
Changes and news on Instagram are always welcome, especially if, like on this occasion, they affect the use of the platform through the web. But it is true that even so, there is something that they should have already done and many of us are still waiting: allow the publication 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.