Best Instagram Features You Should Know In 2022

• Best Instagram Hacks And Tricks and Features You Should Know In 2022

1. Change text alignment in seconds

Put your Tinder skills to good use here: a quick swipe of the text will spice things up and shift things left, right, or back to center in a snap.

How to do it: As you’re typing, quickly swipe to the left or right to realign.

Instagram sticker hacks

2. Turn your Story into a shopping spree

If you’ve got an Instagram Shop, you can tag your one product in each Instagram Story with a product sticker.

How to do it:

1. Build your Instagram Story and tap the sticker icon.
2. Select Product.
3. Choose the item from your product catalog.
4. Customize the product sticker to suit your brand.

3. Change the color of a question sticker

To color coordinate or not to color coordinate? This is the question… or rather, a question about what to do with your question sticker.

How to do it:

1. Tap the sticker icon and select Question.
2. Type out your question and then tap the rainbow wheel at the top of the screen.
3. Continue to tap until the question sticker is the color of your choosing.

4. Access more gifs than ever

If there’s such a thing as too many gifs, we don’t want to hear it.

How to do it:

1. Open the Giphy app and find the gif you want.
2. Click on the paper-airplane share icon (or the heart icon if you’d like to favorite and post later).
3. Select the Instagram icon and then choose Share to Stories.
4. OR select Copy GIF and then paste into your Story.

Pro tip: If you have your own homemade gifs that you’d like to share on Insta Stories, save them to your camera roll and just copy and paste directly into a Story.

5. Create a Grid of Photos

Instagram Stories’ built-in layout tool feature is the perfect way to share multiple images in a variety of neatly organized grids, formatted to the specific dimensions of Stories. Because sometimes you just can’t choose which picture of your sushi dinner is the cutest, we get it!

How to do it:

1. On the left-hand side of the screen, scroll to find the Layout tool a square with disecting lines).
2. Your screen will now be divided into quadrants. Add a photo to the first square by swiping up to select one from your gallery, or use the camera to take a new picture.
3. Repeat for each quadrant.
4. Alternatively, switch up the layout by tapping the Change grid icon on the left-hand side of the screen.

Instagram Story video hacks

6. Answer questions on a Live Story

Answering your followers’ questions on an Instagram Live Story is like a fun interrogation you’re doing to yourself. (Need some help getting started with Instagram Live?

How to do it:

1. Prompt your audience for questions in advance of your Q&A with a Questions sticker.
2. Once you’ve gone live, tap the question-mark icon at the bottom of the screen.
3. Tap the question you’d like to answer, and it will appear on your Live screen as you broadcast.
4. Questions will be greyed out once they’ve been selected so that you don’t pick the same one more than once.

7. Pin a sticker to your video

This is one of the oldest Instagram Story tricks in the book, but we’re not too big to admit that the mechanics of it have stumped us for years. If you, too, have been longing to pin a sticker, emoji, gif, or text to a specific moment or motion in a video, here’s the breakdown.

How to do it:

1. This is essential: film the video within the Instagram Story. You can’t upload a video for this trick! We’ve tried! We’ve failed!
2. Add a sticker (or text, etc) to the Story.
3. Tap and hold that sticker.
4. Use the slider to scroll to the right point in your video.
5. Tap Pin.

8. Make your own Instagram filter

You don’t need to be a programmer to create your own custom filter to use or share with the world has a ton of tutorials and simple step-by-step tools to help you put your stamp on the world (and, more specifically, your followers’ faces).

9. Save your fave filters

You want to have your Elf Ears filter at your fingertips, we get it. Thankfully, there’s a way to build an easy access library of your favorite effects.

How to do it:

1. Open up your Instagram Stories camera.
2. Swipe through the filters at the bottom of the screen until you get to the end .
3. Tap the icon of a magnifying glass that says Browse Effects.
4. Find an effect you like and click the bookmark symbol.
5. Next time you open your camera, that effect will be available to select.
6. If you see an effect you like on someone else’s Story, click on the name of the effect (near the top of the screen) to save it from there.

10. Use video as an animated background

Picture this: a dynamic, moving backdrop for a gorgeous selfie or sick product photo. There’s only one word for this slick combination of animated and still imagery: jazzy.

How to do it:

1. Record a video or swipe up to choose one from your photo gallery.
2. Open up the sticker menu.
3. Select the photo sticker.
4. Choose the photo from your photo gallery.
5. This’ll layer on top of the video: move the photo or resize to your heart’s delight!

11. Become a master of the Instagram Reel

Instagram’s Reels feature may be a bit of a TikTok copycat, but it’s fun all the same.

Create a 15- or 30-second multi-clip video with music, special effects, and stickers and wow your followers with your dance moves. You can share Reels on your Stories, but they’ll appear on the Explore page, too, so you can impress even more ‘Grammers with your Celine Dion lip syncs.

12. Use templates and design tools to make your Stories pop

Sure, a great chef can prepare a delicious meal with just a knife and a pan… but a kitchen full of tools will make creating a gourmet experience that much easier.

Likewise, branching out from the basic elements of Instagram Stories and incorporating external design and editing apps into your creative process will open up a whole new world of possibilities.

Is this a good metaphor, or am I just hungry? Download some apps and we’ll check in after lunch.