Instagram Celebrates 13th Birthday With New Features To Gen Z

Instagram recently announced four new features that will be rolling out soon. The features were announced at a product education session in Meta's Gurugram office on October 6th, in celebration of Instagram's 13th birthday.

Instagram announced four new features aimed at the Gen Z audience, which they will start testing soon. The features are:

Birthday: A new way to celebrate your friends' birthdays on Instagram.

Audio Notes: A new way to share short voice messages with your followers.

Selfie Video Notes: A new way to share short video messages with your followers.

Multiple Lists in Stories: A new way to organize your stories into different lists.

Instagram is bringing its version of the birthday reminder feature that is already available on Facebook. This will allow users to see which of their friends and followers are celebrating their birthday on a given day.

Audio notes are a great way to communicate when you don't have time to type or are just feeling lazy. While you could already send voice messages on Instagram, the new audio note feature will allow you to leave short voice messages in the notes section at the top of your DM list.

Like audio notes, you can also record short video notes that will stay in your notes section for 24 hours. This is similar to a feature that was recently introduced on WhatsApp.