Instagram is testing a new Story feature, and we're not about it
OK, we're not going to lie: We might take screenshots of Instagram Stories and posts every once in a while.
However, Instagram appears to be testing out a “screenshot alert feature” for stories, meaning a user will get notified when someone screenshots their Story.
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Bustle explains that users will get a warning the first time they screenshot a story, letting users know that the next time they take a screenshot, the uploader of the story will get a notification.
Of course, this is only getting tested by a small number of users at this point, and an Instagram rep tells Bustle that they have “no current plans to roll the feature out to all Instagram users.”
However, that update would mean no more sly creeping, and the internet has a reaction to that.
Instagram is now exposing everyone who screenshots an Instagram story. We can no longer screenshot in peace. pic.twitter.com/WkfuJt2bKP
— S ⵣ (@sammynoura) February 7, 2018
— S ⵣ (@sammynoura) February 7, 2018
attention: instagram now notifies if you take screenshots/screen recordings the person you’re STALKING so don’t do that anymore ok HAHAHAHAHAA
— eva (@odiata) February 7, 2018
So now Instagram apparently tells you when you screenshot someone’s story. First it’s non-chronological and now this? Cancelled pic.twitter.com/JlUu2zIxLK
— sam (@samjxnes) February 12, 2018
Does Instagram really tell people when you screenshot their story ? Actually nm, I’ll still do it ����
— tiller (@nwamssss) February 12, 2018
@instagram and @Snapchat are both cancelled! Let us screenshot in peace and have an easy to use platform!
— Melissa (@melissacamara) February 12, 2018
Instagram is going to possibly start showing when people screenshot your story and I would be worried but I never screenshot stories and I know my stories aren’t interesting enough to be screenshotted so ����♀️
— •walter’s future wife• (@lincsbestpal) February 12, 2018
But honestly, some people just want the regular algorithm back:
Instagram has come with screenshot notifications for their stories.
BRING BACK THE REGULAR ALGORITHM DAMMIT pic.twitter.com/DfnEn0nllQ
— Ash Neverson (@ashneverson) February 12, 2018
But nothing can be worse than that Snapchat update, right? We'll just have to see.