Instagram has mainly been focusing on upgrading features on its app and neglecting its web interface but that’s about to change. The giant photo-sharing platform didn’t want its users to leave the app and has recently started adding few features on its web interface.
The DM feature has been highly requested and it’s a huge relief that they are finally working on it.
@instagram hey lets have a way to check DMs and notifications on the desktop version of insta
— Jonathan Cooper (@jcoop9917) July 27, 2014
People can only access their DMs via different workarounds such as through the mobile web, enabling developer mode and setting it to a mobile device, using third-party Instagram chrome extensions, the official Instagram app for Windows 10 and Flume, IG:dm for Mac among other apps.
Reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong found that Instagram is testing a way to access your private messages on the web.
Instagram is working on Direct for the desktop website pic.twitter.com/2Yc0T94wh1
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) October 9, 2019
The interface looks similar to the Messenger one as Facebook plans to integrate all its messaging apps and allow users to chat between Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram.
On Instagram Direct for desktop web, thread info becomes a sidebar just like Messenger for desktop web pic.twitter.com/OJH61aoCqU
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) October 9, 2019
It was about time
LIFE CHANGER https://t.co/s8UXPzzXK8
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) October 9, 2019
Huge
Christmas has come early for community managers https://t.co/EElFFgGBW6
— Cubaka (@cubaka) October 10, 2019
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