Instagram will improve its messaging service with these new features

New update for Instagram. And there are a few. Instagram is following the same steps as WhatsApp, improving its services more and more (and faster) and adding more and more news. The Instagram app does not stop updating its Stories with new modes, Gifs, the possibility of making stories with text... Now it is the turn of the app in general. New functions for the chat section. We will tell you about them below.

First of all, we must emphasize that the update will be available soon for iOS. The news come with version 35.0. Soon we will be able to update the app through the App Store. Or, downloading the official application if we do not have it installed to receive these news.

Chats with stars

We begin with the news. They are small, but very important. Now Instagram will allow you to mark a chat as favorite That is, we will see a star next to each conversation that will serve to mark the chat as favorite or featured. According to WaBetainfo, the location of the star belongs to the video call option, so it is likely that the possibility to mark as favorite ends up in the chat information, right next to mute.We don't know the utility of marking a chat as a favorite. But most likely, that chat will be ranked in the first position, or it will be pinned so as not to lose it. Another use could be when sending a personal story. That is, when we send a story to a specific contact, the starred chats may appear first. Right now the option is from recent chats, but it might disappear.

Download Instagram data

Another feature that will come is the ability to download our Instagram data. We can download a data report from the Instagram servers This option will be found in the application settings, and if we ask you to download our data, Instagram will send it to us to the email associated with the account. It will have a ZIP format, and we can move it to any device.WhatsApp will also allow this mode, although the messaging application could also download a specific message. At the moment, we do not know what data Instagram will allow us to download, but most likely in the future it will also be the configuration of our account, credentials, publications.

Search filters in chats

The last novelty that will arrive on Instagram will be new search options. When we want to search for a chat we can apply different search filters The purpose? Search in a faster and more intuitive way the specific chat or message. For example, we can filter between inbox, unread messages or featured messages (with the star). We will only have to put a word or user and select the filter for Instagram to search for it. If we apply the option of starred messages, it will filter those messages with stars. That is, we could not only highlight chats with the star, but also a specific message.

While these improvements seem advanced, we should note that might change in final version.

New for Stories: Possibility of taking photos with bokeh effect

According to Android Authority, the app will include an option to take portrait mode photos This option would be among the types of modes, such as Boomerang , Direct, Superzoom etc. Blur mode may only be available on devices with a second camera. Although through Software it could also be incorporated. For the moment, if we want to upload a photograph with a blurred effect to our story, we will have to use the main camera app. Or edit it through a specific application.