Instagram New Hidden Features for Valentines Day Available for Limited Time How To Use

Instagram has introduced new features to add some spice to your Valentine’s Day celebrations. Two new features have been added by the Meta-owned social media platform, but they are not very easy to find. These hidden features can only be triggered by performing certain tasks inside the Android or iOS app. One of these features is included in the Notes section on the Direct Message (DM) page. The other feature is hidden in Stories.

The first feature is a floating or exploding heart animation that can be seen when using the Notes feature. Users who write Valentine’s Day-related keywords such as “Happy Valentine’s Day”, “Happy Vday”, or “Vday” in notes will receive a DM message that shows floating hearts across the screen. The same effect can be seen by tapping on a note with Valentine’s Day-themed words.

The second feature is available in ‘Stories’. When you share a new story, you can select a specific @mention in the stickers section. The new mention is pink in colour and has two hearts on either side of the mention. Using it to tag another person and then posting a story will trigger the same floating hearts animation. Similarly, tapping on another user’s story with this mention will trigger the animation again.

While the features have been rolled out and some users have reported using them, they are not yet available to all users. According to the company, these features are being introduced on the occasion of Valentine’s Day, but they will remain in the app till Thursday.

The Meta-owned platform is also experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI)-based features. Recently, a report highlighted that Instagram is working on an AI message-writing feature that will allow users to rewrite, paraphrase, and make stylistic changes to their written messages in chats.