News & Reviews:   Instagram

Ever since people are staying at home to help curb the spread of COVID-19, scrolling through your Instagram feed has been something you do alone throughout the day to keep yourself entertained. But recently, Instagram has rolled out the new Co-watching feature to help users feel less lonely by having a virtual gathering with their friends and families.

It's now day 6 of the Movement Restriction Order and many of us have been staying indoors more than ever. With this, Internet usage have also increased and you may have noticed that your respective Telco and Internet providers network are slower as well. Besides, YouTube and Netflix have already reduced the video quality just so that they can free up the Internet space.

There are 'leaks' and there are discoveries. If you ask us, the latter is often more interesting because they are more likely to be true. That seems to be the case with a new unreleased feature discovered within Instagram for Android.

In its pursuit of expanding its reach, Facebook has been testing all kinds of features. The company has been focusing on Stories a lot in recent weeks, even in Facebook Messenger, with its latest undertaking being the cross-posting of Stories to Instagram. If the feature works, social media managers will have a little less work when managing the postings.

While Facebook can be pretty annoying on showing you ads about something you just talked about, the company have decided that they enforce a temporary ban on ads of medical masks. This is to prevent exploitation by groups or individuals in the wake of COVID-19.

Huawei have been accelerating their development on the Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) since losing its Android license in May 2019. But recently, it seems that the progress is going well as it has come to our attention that three popular apps will be available on Huawei's AppGallery soon.  

If you have a sharp eye, you would notice that the IGTV icon has disappeared on your Instagram main menu. First introduced about two years ago as a new platform for video content creators, but it looks like nobody really cares and this is not a mistake. In fact, it seems that only 1% of users actually tap on the IGTV button on the main user interface.

vivo, as well as TNTCO, has officially announced that you could get a 15% discount on your TNTCO purchase if you own any vivo smartphone. Only purchases made at the TNTCO store in Pandan Indah from 13 January until 29 February 2020 will be eligible for the aforementioned promo.

It seems like Facebook is trying to bring a more positive vibe to its photo-centric social media platform Instagram. Earlier, we’ve heard the platform is attempted to hide the likes of the posts, which is to promote the idea of focusing more on content rather than like counts. Now, it is trying to keep the social media platform clean by banning the influencers to promote vaping and smoking.

While most of the online tutorials do show how to add multiple photos in Instagram Stories, but this only worked on iOS devices until now. Today, Instagram is finally rolling out a new Layout feature that allows you to include multiple photos in a single story. Now both iOS and Android users will be able to add multiple photos in stories without a third-party app.