The latest feature to come to the Instagram mobile apps makes it easier to comment without using words
Love them or hate them, emojis are here to stay. They’ve evolved from binary text indicating basic facial expressions like winking to modern marvels that cover all kinds of people and objects. This evolution has even led to Apple creating emojis that react to your own facial movements and Google using AI to create a complete set of emojis based on your own facial features. Emojis are a big deal these days.
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Check it outIf there is one social network that epitomizes the age of the emoji it is Instagram. Instagram is all about visual communication and is famous for its poorly featured comments section. Comments are only there for basic communication and users can’t even add links to the comments they make on people’s posts. Is there a better tool than emojis to share your reaction to a pic?
Instagram seems to think not. They’ve introduced a brand-new emoji toolbar to both Android and iOS versions of the app. Once you’ve updated your Instagram app, you’ll find the new emoji shortcut bar right above your keyboard. In it, you’ll find all the emojis you use the most and you’ll be able to scroll through them from left to right. The emoji bar is only available for comments, however, and won’t show up when you’re writing captions for your own posts.
Instagram has been testing this feature for some time, but it was released for everybody on September 6. If you haven’t seen it on your Instagram yet, update the app and it should be there next time you comment on a post.
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