Instagram is testing a way for you to see content from friends that you might have missed.


Instagram is testing a way for you to see content from friends that you might have missed. The social network has started displaying unseen Story Highlights from a user’s mutual followers at the end of the Stories tray, which is the area at the top of your feed where you see Stories from your friends.

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“We’re always working on new ways to help people connect in Stories and are testing bringing recent Highlights to the end of the tray with a small group of people,” a Meta spokesperson told TechCrunch.
The feature was first spotted by social media expert Ahmed Ghanem.
As Instagram has become overcrowded with things like Reels and sponsored posts, it’s easy to miss updates from people you actually follow. The social network’s latest test feature experiments with a way to ensure you aren’t missing original content from your friends and family.
Meta notes that users will be able to see unseen Story Highlights from the past week.
You will only see the unseen Story Highlights when you get through all of the current Stories in the tray. This means that if you follow a bunch of people and don’t always get the end of your Stories tray, you might not see the Highlights.
It’s worth noting that the feature won’t display standard Stories that disappear after 24 hours, only Story Highlights, which are the curated Stories that users have saved to their profiles.

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Instagram teases AI tools for editing appearances, backgrounds in videos using prompts

Instagram head Adam Mosseri is teasing upcoming generative AI features for the social app that will allow creators to “change nearly any aspect” of their videos using text prompts. The editing tools will be powered by Meta’s Movie Gen AI model and are expected to launch on the social network sometime next year, Mosseri said in a video shared on Thursday.


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“We’re working on some really exciting AI tools for you video creators out there,” Mosseri said. “A lot of you make amazing content that makes Instagram what it is, and we want to give you more tools to help realize your ideas. And you should be able to do anything you want with your videos. You should be able to change your outfit or change the context in which you’re sitting, or add a chain, whatever you can think of,” he added.

The video previews the AI editing features that Mosseri is teasing, including the ability to change your outfit, alter your background environment, add jewelry, and change your overall appearance.