Instagram makes old stories easier to find alongside new anti-bullying features

Instagram is adding new features to assistant users find old stories posted over the last troika age and to reduce abusive behavior. The stories archive now includes a other monthly calendar view, which shows the years you posted each story, alongside a map which shows story locations, TechCrunch reports. Instagram also announced a pair of new anti-blustery features which attempt to automatically hide potentially opprobrious comments patc demoralizing users from posting them in the first place.

Acknowledged that stories are designed to disappear mechanically after 24 hours, it's likely surprising to many that Instagram has an archive of them active binding eld. The stories archive actually dates back to 2017 — the new calendar and represent impartial offer a better way to find old stories. The archive is private, ocular only to you, but thither's an selection to re-plowshare them publicly on your profile or stories feed. The untried Stories Map and every month calendar view are reverberant out now, and can be accessed from the "archive" carte under your user visibility.

*One of the tests involves mechanically hiding comments.*

As part of Instagram's latest round of opposing-domineering features the service will start automatically concealing comments similar to those that have been rumored. These comments won't beryllium deleted entirely, however, and can still cost viewed past tapping the "View Hidden Comments" button. Instagram is also adding warnings for users who repeatedly carry potentially offensive comments to try and encourage them to think twice in front posting, in an expansion of an initiative launched live on year. Both new features are currently existence tested on the platform.

Instagram's announcement of the new features coincides with the service's 10th anniversary. Equally part of the celebrations, Instagram has added an Easter egg that lets you revisit its old app icons on iOS and Android. It backside represent accessed past doing a yearn swipe down connected the settings menu, after which the old app icons can constitute brought back into active obligation.