Once a humble text messaging app, WhatsApp quickly grew to become an all-conquering communication service with lots of incredibly useful features. WhatsApp’s most loved features include the quick and easy voice notes users can send to each other. Voice notes are so popular, WhatsApp has been working on ways to make them better. They’re also so popular that another Facebook-owned service, Instagram, is trying to get in on the action.
Instagram gets WhatsApp-style voice notes for direct messages
The new Instagram voice notes are easy to use. They work in much the same way as voice notes on WhatsApp. When you’re sending direct messages in Instagram, all you have to do to send a voice note is tap and hold the microphone button that is now found in the text box. Instagram will record your voice note until you release the button and then send it to your friend.
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Read nowVoice notes are great for when you are messaging in a hurry, but they are also excellent for when you are trying to send a lot of information at once or some sort of complicated explanation. In these situations, if you don’t want to keep holding the microphone button while you are recording your voice note, you can lock the recording, so it will continue once you release the button. To do this, all you have to do is drag your finger up when you are holding the microphone button. If you make a mistake while you are recording a voice note and you want to cancel it, you can do so by either dragging your finger across to the trash can icon or, if you’ve locked the recording, you can simply tap it.
Voice notes are a great feature for any messaging service to have so this is a real boost for anybody who sends most of their direct messages using Instagram.
We’ve recently seen a number of updates coming to the hip social network. The recent Close Friends update makes it easier for you to control who will see your Instagram Stories, and user profiles have also recently been tweaked to emphasize the user bio more, rather than follower count. All of these added to an updated messaging service that now comes complete with voice notes make Instagram a much friendlier social network. One that could help foster genuine communication between real friends rather than open up our lives to a world of new strangers who can peer into our lives from behind the veil of anonymity that the internet provides. This represents a move back towards the original core missions of the first social networks.
Instagram voice notes have already received a global roll-out on both iOS and Android. All you have to do to use them is open up a direct message to one of your friends.
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