Your iPhone contacts list has phone numbers of numerous random persons a restaurant, a friend’s friend, an old acquaintance, ex-partner, distant relatives, etc. You don’t have regular conversations with them but may need to once in a blue moon. However, since their phone number is saved to your contacts, by default, they can see your WhatsApp profile picture, status (stories), last seen, and more. For privacy and safety reasons, you might want to stop your WhatsApp profile picture, stories, and other similar personal data from showing to such contacts. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to do that on your iPhone. Please note that these tips also apply to...
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In an effort to take on TikTok, Instagram allows its users to add music to their Instagram Stories. It even offers an entire library of licensed music. Most users currently have access to it (although certain business accounts and types of posts do not, according to Instagram’s support page). Here is how to find Instagram’s music library, plus how to add music to your Instagram Story. How to add music to your Instagram Story You can find Instagram’s music library by swiping up from the story you’ve just captured and then selecting the music sticker in Stories. Step one: Capture a photo or video for your Story To capture a...
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Meta-owned Instagram recently introduced a new way to interact with Instagram Stories: You can now send a “like” response. Previously, you could only respond to a story by sending the creator a direct message or an emoji reaction – and both of those responses would clutter up the creator’s messages inbox. Not now. With the addition of likes, Instagram is not only giving users more ways to interact with stories, but it’s hoping to make creators’ inboxes more manageable. That’s because instead of sifting through their inbox to see which viewers “liked” a story, creators can simply go to a story’s viewer sheet to see the data. Here’s what else...
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Tap the menu button in the upper left corner of the Signal app, tap “Settings,” tap “Stories,” and then tap “Turn Off Stories.” Restart Signal after changing this setting. The popular secure messaging platform Signal now has “Story Time,” the company’s version of the stories you see on Instagram, Facebook, and other platforms. Here’s what they are and, if you like to keep your secure messaging simple, how to turn them off. What Are Signal Stories? Don’t get us wrong, we love Signal. And the folks at Signal seem pretty excited to announce Story Time as a feature many users will get a lot of enjoyment and mileage out of....
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Instagram roughly has 1 billion monthly active users and that number may just keep climbing. The gram has introduced various new features in the past few years to make it even more addictive. In this very direction, Instagram had also launched the Stories feature. The best part of this feature is that you can keep posting without it staying on your profile forever. Stories pop up on top of your Instagram feed and you can scroll through them horizontally to view all the posts. Your friends and family can just click on your story to view it. However, there are some instances where you don’t want a particular someone to...
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Instagram keeps adding new features to the leading photo-sharing app almost every week or so. The upcoming feature that might make it to Instagram is the ability to respond to Instagram stories via voice messages. Instagram Stories to get voice messages support According to developer Alessandro Paluzzi, Instagram is working upon a feature that allows users to respond to ephemeral type Instagram Stories using voice messages. As of now, you can respond via GIFs, strikers, or text messages, however, the voice message feature remains unavailable when it comes to responding to the stories. Paluzzi was able to reverse-engineer the app to find this feature which may or may not make...
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As if you needed another app to post stories, TikTok is testing an ephemeral feature of its own. The popular video app is experimenting with TikTok Stories, as spotted by “social media consultant” Matt Navarra. A TikTok spokesperson also confirmed the test to the media. TikTok Stories seems to work a lot like other stories features found in apps like Snapchat or Instagram. You can create a new story by tapping a “create” button that’s been added to a new slide-over sidebar. You can add captions, music, and text. They have to be videos, though. No photos. TikTok Stories are also found in the new sidebar. That’s where you’ll see...
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Instagram is expanding its translation technologies to stories, five years after launching the feature for posts and captions. Basically, the social media app is offering the ability to automatically translate text in story posts. When it detects a foreign language in a post, it will display a “See Translation” option on the top corner of the screen. All you need to do is tap that to immediately see a translation at the bottom of your screen. According to Instagram, its stories language translation feature will be available globally at launch, and it currently supports over 90 languages, including Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, and Portuguese. (Instagram said support for certain languages might...
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Instagram has always limited who can use links in their stories. But, according to a new report, it’s considering widening the ability. Here’s what you need to know. Who can add links to Instagram Stories? Instagram has long offered one way for you to add links to Instagram Stories: The swipe-up link tool. If you have access to it, it allows your viewers to swipe up on your story or tap an arrow at the bottom of their screen to access the link you’ve included without requiring them to leave the Instagram app. But there’s a catch when it comes to this feature: To add a link to your story,...
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Today Capcom released two new TV commercials of its upcoming JRPG Monster Hunter Stories 2. The videos focus on the depiction of the game’s world and its story, also providing a good look at the cast of characters that we’ll meet in the game. You can enjoy them below. Monster Hunter Stories 2 will release on July 9 for Nintendo Switch and PC. You can check out another trailer, a second, and a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, a seventh, and an eighth. If you’re unfamiliar with the game, you can check out an official description below: “A new adventure awaits you in this second installment of the...
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