Instagram DM Tricks: How to Add Special Effects to Instagram Messages
Instagram DM Tricks: How to Add Special Effects to Instagram Messages
Sending messages made fun!
By Aman Rashid | Updated: 26 December 2020 13:00 IST
You can now reply to specific messages on Instagram, just like in WhatsApp and Telegram.
Highlights
Add special effects in Instagram DMs
Now you can also save messages for quick replies
These features and more in the latest version of Instagram
Did you know you can now use cool new special effects for your Instagram DMs? With a recent software update, Facebook has merged Messenger with Instagram DMs, and since then the latter has received some cool new features such as the ability to set up a custom chat colour, vanish mode, custom emoji reactions etc. In this article, we'll be telling you about one of these new features that came with the merger.
Instagram DM: Add special effects to messages
You can now add special effects in Instagram DMs, whenever you reply to someone or you send someone a new message. Follow these steps.
First up, make sure that you have got the latest version of Instagram installed on your phone.
Open any chat on Instagram and type a message.
Tap the magnifier on the left, next to the text entry field.
You'll now see four new effects to choose from.
Tap and choose the one you like and that's it.
Doing this will send a message along with the special effect.
Apart from this, you can also save messages to use as quick replies. To do that, follow these steps.
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