Instagram introduced at this time that it’s launching the power for customers to pin as much as three posts, together with photographs or Reels, to the highest of their profile grid. The corporate says the brand new characteristic will give creators extra flexibility to precise themselves on their profiles. The official roll out comes as Instagram confirmed to Avisionews in April that it was testing the characteristic. The flexibility to pin posts is rolling out globally to all customers beginning at this time.
You may pin a put up by navigating to a selected picture or Reel and clicking on the three dots within the high proper nook and deciding on “Pin to your profile.” When you achieve this, the put up will seem on the high of your profile grid.
“Your profile is your area, so we’re on the lookout for extra methods to present you management over that have,” mentioned Instagram head Adam Mosseri in a video posted to his social channels in regards to the new characteristic.
The flexibility to pin a selected put up to your profile is a welcome characteristic for customers who need to spotlight their favourite posts which will have been buried someplace farther down of their picture grid. The characteristic may be helpful for creators who put up often however need to spotlight a selected put up. Presently, customers have the choice to pin Tales to their profile, however this new characteristic expands this potential to posts.
Though you would beforehand spotlight a put up in a Story after which pin that story to your profile, this new characteristic makes that course of lots simpler and extra easy. It’s price noting that the brand new characteristic works equally to Twitter’s “Pin to your profile” characteristic and TikTok’s “Pinned movies” possibility, each of which allow you to pin content material to the highest of your profile.
At this time’s announcement comes as Meta lately launched a number of options for its Reels merchandise throughout each Fb and Instagram. Most notably, it’s rolled out a Sound Sync characteristic on Fb Reels and added help for longer Instagram Reels of as much as 90 seconds, up from the earlier 60 seconds restrict. The corporate additionally launched a number of extra inventive instruments, audio instruments, templates and different choices to make Reels extra partaking.
