After a long wait by many users who wanted to have that feature, Instagram has updated its Direct Messages so that all users can edit the messages they have sent. This is a functionality also present in another Meta service like WhatsApp, which has allowed editing messages since mid-2023.
With this, Instagram will allow users to correct typos in newly written messages, modify the message if the recipient was incorrect, or change a message if one is not convinced of the content being sent. This is, in this way, an improvement in quality of life for those users who wanted to be able to edit sent messages. Messages could already be deleted before, so that factor does not influence as much for the new functionality.
Editing MD on Instagram
It has been Meta on its official blog who announced the arrival of this functionality to the services available on Instagram. Thanks to this, users will no longer have to delete a message completely when they want to make any changes to what they had written.
To do this, simply hold down the message you want to edit, and then the option “edit text” will appear among the available options, allowing you to rewrite the message as many times as you want within 15 minutes from the first send.
The Convergence of Meta
It is quite common for Meta to mimic functions from one application to another when it perceives that the result is positive. In this case, it can be seen that the function of editing already written messages was added to WhatsApp in 2023 and is a widely used tool by those users who want to make modifications to their texts, beyond deleting them completely. But this system of implementing improvements in parallel is by no means a novelty.
An example of this is the replication of successful formats on Instagram to be used on Facebook as an added incentive. This can be seen in the previous addition of Reels on Facebook, or the ability to also publish stories on Mark Zuckerberg’s original platform in the same style as Instagram, although with some reduced functions. Likewise, this format is also present on WhatsApp, with the so-called “statuses”, which are also used by millions of users.
