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Instagram keeps loading your photography and video social network with new functions and social features. Especially in the field of Instagram Stories. You know, that section with photos and videos that disappear 24 hours after their publication and to which both young and not so young have been hooked to show and see the day-to-day life of their followers. Well, it is also being a focus of complaints and questions with few answers: why do some users have at their disposal functions such as playing background music, or even showing the lyrics of these songs and others? not yet?
The answer is relatively simple: Instagram tests its new features in test groups This way you can gather more detailed information on how is using this function in particular, and what problems it is causing in the different mobiles of those who do have it. All this information is used to tweak the function, modify its code and fine-tune its operation. Once there are changes and improvements, its use gradually spreads to the rest of mobiles and users around the world. But this requires time, patience and several steps.
Many of these new features may be subject to territorial laws that limit their use This is the case of the music function, in which clashes with copyright and reproduction rights and other legal requirements may have delayed its arrival or even blocked it altogether.
But the most important thing is to be in one of the control user groups. That is, those who do not soon receive these functions to make sure that everything works correctly. Well, according to a former Instagram communication manager for the Spanish-speaking community, @idelosreyes, there is a way to force the arrival of these features if you are not part of it of this control group and the latest advances in the social network are not yet available. This is what you should do.
Step by Step
- The first thing is to keep the Instagram application updated to its latest version To do this, you only have to go through the Google Play Store if you have a Android mobile, or through the App Store if you have an iPhone, and check that there is no pending update. If so, download and install it, it could be the necessary step to have the new function that you are waiting for and that other users are already testing.
- If not, the next step is log out of Instagram To do this, go to the last tab of the application and display the side menu from the three lines in the upper right corner. Here you will find the Settings menu, from where you can choose the Exit option, right at the end of the list. Please do not remember the login information as we want to completely exit the app. Once this is done, force close Instagram. You can do it by opening all the applications in the background and closing the app from here. On Android you can go to the mobile Settings, enter Applications and search for Instagram to force its closure. Then all that remains is to start it again and enter the access codes as usual.
- Finally, if all this has not worked, all that remains is to try reinstall Instagram This will force us to close it and log out or exit from the account.With this, when reinstalling it and logging in we will have more options to access a group of users who do have these features running.
Even so, we must take into account that this method is not definitive Instagram continues to manage the expansion progress of the features that come to Instagram Stories. So this way of forcing it may not work. The last word will always be Instagram.