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New Messaging Features Now Available On Instagram and Messenger

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November 18, 2020

Today, features that are part of the new messaging experience on Instagram are now available.

The first - Watch Together - is available now. When you update to the new messaging experience on Instagram, you and your friends can tune into IGTV, Reels and TV shows, movies and trending videos in real-time over video chat. We’re also bringing two new show series with Grammy-nominated superstar Post Malone and digital creator Avani Gregg, Post Malone’s Celebrity World Pong League and Here for It with Avani Gregg, exclusively to Messenger and Instagram through Messenger’s Watch Together.

To start watching “Here for It With Avani Gregg” or “Post Malone's Celebrity World Pong League” with your friends, simply start a video chat in Instagram or Messenger or create a Messenger Room. In an Instagram video chat, tap the media button in the bottom right and select the ‘TV & Movies’ tab. In a Messenger video chat, swipe up to access the menu, select Watch Together then select the ‘TV & Movies’ tab. From there you can select various content, including Avani and Post’s shows.


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The second feature we’re rolling out is chat themes such as tie-dye and love so that you can personalize your conversations. One theme is a special chat experience on Messenger and Instagram with TinyTAN, a group of lovable characters created from the seven members of BTS. Once you update to the new experience, you’ll be able to activate the TinyTAN chat theme on Instagram and Messenger. Express your affection with 💜 emojis, share your favorite songs from the new album, or customize your message reactions for your perfect TinyTAN-themed chat.

You can activate the TinyTAN chat theme on Instagram and Messenger in your chat settings by tapping Theme and selecting TinyTAN.

The third, vanish mode, is coming soon and is an opt-in feature that makes seen messages disappear after you leave a chat thread. Sometimes a message is spontaneous – something you want to share in the moment without worrying about it sticking around. Now you can send memes, GIFs or reactions to share what you really think but can’t always say, without it staying in your chat history. To turn it on, just swipe up in an existing chat thread – and you’re in vanish mode. Swipe up again and you’re back to your regular chat.

We designed vanish mode with safety and choice top of mind, so you are in control of your experience. To start, only people who are following each other on Instagram or who are connected on Messenger can use vanish mode in one-on-one chats. Vanish mode is also optional: you choose whether you enter vanish mode with someone. If someone takes a screenshot of your chat while you’re using vanish mode, you’ll be notified. And as always, you can block someone or report a conversation if you feel unsafe.

We’re slowly rolling out vanish mode on Messenger and Instagram. Vanish mode is now available on Messenger in the US and a handful of other countries, and it’s coming soon to countries in the EU. Vanish mode on Instagram will be coming to the US and other countries soon, when you update to the new Messenger experience.

Watch Together and chat themes are just a few of the ten new messaging features, including selfie stickers, custom emoji reactions, animated message effects, and message controls, now available globally to anyone who chooses to update to the new Messenger experience on Instagram.

With this update, you can now reach your friends and family whether they’re on Instagram or Messenger, and you can control where you receive messages and calls, such as in your chats or in your message requests.

Stay tuned for more features coming soon to help you stay connected to those that matter most to you.

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How To Watch Instagram Video Content With Friends

By Adam Swimmer

Newly updated feature lets Instagram users watch and chat with each other while streaming content together, including Post Malone beer pong.

Instagram has now launched a new Watch Together feature to make it easier to users to chat with friends on the platform, while watching their favorite TV shows. Instagram users who upgrade to the latest version will be able to watch IGTV, Reels, trending videos, and popular TV shows in real-time over video chat. Here's how it works.

Facebook first unveiled the Watch Together feature in September for its Messenger service. It allowed friends, who had perhaps been separated from each other due to the pandemic to hang out and watch a TV show together online. They would access content from the Facebook Watch video-on-demand service and view it while in a Messenger Room or on a video call on the app.

Related: All Instagram Users Can Now Create Guides: What You Need To Know

Now, the service has been rolled out to Instagram. Like with Messenger, activating the feature is quite simple. Users start an Instagram video chat and tap the media button in the bottom-right of the screen. Then, they select the TV & Movies tab. From there, Instagram users will see a selection of various Facebook Watch content, from scripted series to reality shows to viral videos. Once they pick something, they can watch it together in the chat and complain about how bad the writing is or dish about what scandals the stars have gotten into in real life.

To coincide with the rollout, Facebook has launched two new shows that will exclusively be available on Instagram and Messenger. The first is Post Malone’s Celebrity World Pong League. It's a ten-episode series, airing Wednesdays and Fridays where Malone plays beer pong against celebrity friends, including Doja Cat, Quavo, and Saweetie. Malone faces off against Tyla Yaweh and Machine Gun Kelly in the first episode, which aired November 18. The other is Here for It With Avani Gregg — an eight-episode series that started this Monday where the TikTok star discusses social issues affecting Gen Z-ers. In the premiere episode, Gregg talks about friendships with fellow TikTok star Amelie Zilber.

It's unclear how popular these particular shows will be as their target audience seems to be somewhat niche. People who aren't already fans of Malone or Gregg are unlikely to tune in, let alone share the experience with family and friends. However, Facebook Watch's video collection is quite large so there's a good chance the Watch Together feature could become a popular way to connect with friends, especially at a time when so many are starved for human contact.

More: Facebook Vanish Mode: Using Instagram & Messenger's Disappearing Messages

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Adam Swimmer is a Toronto-based freelance writer who has worked in journalism for 17 years, primarily online. He has covered various areas, including technology, hard news and entertainment. Outside of work, some of his interests include sleeping, reading and binging TV shows, especially K-dramas, sci-fi and Anime. He also watches the odd serious show or movie to keep his largely pointless film theory degree marginally relevant.

How to watch videos and movies on Instagram during a video call with a friend

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Videos, IGTV, streaming videos, movies and TV shows are part of the audiovisual content that can be viewed on Instagram. Success is not only about having good content, but also about providing a good browsing experience for your users. Instagram achieves this through features such as Watch Together, which allows watch videos and movies with friends during a video call .

In this guide, we will learn how to use one of the most interesting tools that Instagram has recently added, a feature we have been requesting from streaming platforms for a long time. Grab the popcorn because it's the only thing you need to share your Instagram videos and movies with your friends.

Use Instagram's Watch Together feature to watch videos and movies with friends. nine0003

Facebook wants to compete with platforms like Netflix and HBO, creating long-term audiovisual content in by teaming up with figures like Post Malone or digital creator Avani Gregg, both creating their own series.

The social network itself Facebook, messenger and Instagram are the main beneficiaries of this strategy, because this is where you can see this exclusive content. To keep users on track, the company has added one of the coolest features to Messenger and Instagram. nine0007 is called "Watch Together" .

What does this tool do? Well, when you have a video call with other users on Instagram, you can open videos uploaded to the social platform for them. view and comment on them simultaneously .

You can choose between content you like , content you have saved in Registered section or be surprised suggested publications on Instagram based on your interests.

We tried "Seeing Together" and actually the experience was very satisfying because it makes it easy to view Instagram videos without using other applications. We explain step by step how to watch Instagram videos with friends during a video call:

  1. Open Instagram and enter into a conversation with the contact or group you want to watch video with.
  2. Cliquez-sur- camera icon in the top right corner.
  3. When another user accepts the call, press the bottom button "Multimedia content" .
  4. Navigate between tabs to find the video you want to watch and click on it to add to the hangout. When you do this, will be played in the top half of the screen while half of the bottom will be reserved for your image and the other participants' images. nine0054

At any time you can replace this video with another by re-opening "Multimedia content" or by deleting it to continue the video call in normal mode by clicking the "Delete" button. Also, in long-term videos, you can stop and resume reading with the controls that appear on the screen.

Without a doubt, this is already one of our favorite Instagram features. From there, we recommend that streaming services such as Netflix or HBO take control of the social network to add similar tools that allow us watch series and movies with friends while we chat about it on video call . It would be nice, right?

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