Instagram introduced Monday that it’s lastly including the power for customers to take heed to previews of songs that they’ve shared from Spotify to Tales.
Whereas Instagram has lengthy allowed customers to share Spotify songs to their Tales, it might accomplish that with out sound, and easily present a hyperlink to the tune on the streaming platform. Now, when a person posts a tune to their Story, viewers will be capable of take heed to a preview of the tune proper inside Instagram.
The small change, but notable change makes it simpler to share and uncover music on the platform with out having to depart the app.
The transfer comes just a few weeks after the social community rolled out an analogous functionality for Instagram Notes. Customers can now stream songs from Spotify on to their Instagram Notes, letting their followers see and take a look at what sort of music they’re into in real-time.
The brand new capabilities might assist place Instagram as a hub for music discovery and, in flip, encourage folks to spend extra time on the app. Constructing out music options might additionally make Instagram extra aggressive with TikTok, which is already dominating the area and influencing music charts globally.
Instagram additionally introduced Monday it’s rolling out new fonts this 12 months for Tales and Reels. To begin, the platform is introducing a limited-time font impressed by singer and songwriter Rosalía’s handwriting.
Customers can unlock secret symbols hand-drawn by Rosalía when typing in characters equivalent to ” 🙂 “, ***,” and “<3,” Instagram says.
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