The Instagram developer team continues to work on improving this popular social network, introducing small changes and new features and one of the latest innovations studied is an additional way to reply to direct messages.
Users, in fact, will have the ability to quickly reply to a Direct message from their feed, without the need to enter their inbox and behind the introduction of this new function, there is a desire on the part of the team of developers to strengthen the potential of the platform with regard to the messaging aspect.
Other news on Instagram is also coming
Instagram developers also have other interesting new features coming for users of this popular social network, such as a new menu accessible from the main feed with a long press of the Share button that will allow you to quickly re-share a post with four friends and previews of the songs lasting 30 seconds (thanks to the integration with Apple and Amazon streaming services, to which Spotify will soon be added).
And again, among the upcoming news, there is also a line at the top of the inbox to show which of your contacts are currently online (their profile pictures are shown), the ability to create surveys and a convenient shortcut to send messages. silently without generating notifications for your contacts (this through the @silent command, as has already happened on Facebook Messenger).
These new features are already being released and should be enabled globally within hours. There are, however, exceptions as far as we European users are concerned: due to EU legislation, in fact, features such as @silent, surveys and viewing of online users cannot be implemented.