Instagram Gives Users The Option To Reply To Instagram Stories With GIFS
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PSA: You can now reply to your friends’ stories using @GIPHY GIFs! Update your app to try it.
— Instagram (@instagram) February 4, 2020
There was already the ability to add GIFs to your Stories, however the update brings the functionality full circle.
You can send a GIF reply by typing the keyword of a GIF in the ‘Send Message’ box. This will change the camera button to a GIF button. When you tap on the GIF button, a tray will pop up featuring GIFs associated with the keyword you typed. Once you have decided on which GIF you want to send, you can send it by tapping it.
Insights & Analysis:
The new functionality gives Instagram users yet another way to engage with each other especially when it comes to the Stories content format. Thanks to GIPHY’s diverse library of GIFs, users will have endless choices on how they want to reply to their friends and families’ Stories.
In other Instagram news, it recently rolled out a new feature that makes it for you to re-share Stories content that you’re mentioned in.
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