Speaker 1: Instagram Stories turns too. Here are some tips and tricks
Speaker 1: to take your story posts to the next level. What's
Speaker 1: going on. I'm rich Demiro. This is rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: If you can believe it. Instagram Stories has been around
Speaker 1: now for two years. The service celebrated its second birthday
Speaker 1: on August second. How appropriate. What started out is a
Speaker 1: Snapchat copycat has turned into the way to share quick
Speaker 1: little posts online. I love it. A lot of folks
Speaker 1: love using this, and it's because it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Instagram says there are more than four hundred million people
Speaker 1: using the feature every day. To me, the popularity is threefold.
Speaker 1: First Off, when it came out, everyone was already on Instagram,
Speaker 1: so it was super easy to start using it compared
Speaker 1: to signing up with a new account on Snapchat. And
Speaker 1: even if you didn't post, you can still check and
Speaker 1: see what your friends were posting. Then of course you
Speaker 1: eventually would use it. Second, Instagram lets you get super
Speaker 1: creative with your posts. There are so many ways to
Speaker 1: craft your posts. You can include text, videos, jiffs, music,
Speaker 1: whatever you want. And Third, Instagram keeps adding new tools
Speaker 1: that you can continue to have fun with. They just
Speaker 1: added that new music feature the questions feature, or of course,
Speaker 1: the poll feature. Now, there is one new feature that
Speaker 1: not everyone will appreciate, and this is just in the
Speaker 1: Instagram app at large. It's called Activity Status. This basically
Speaker 1: tells your friends when you are actively using the app,
Speaker 1: or they can see the last time that you check
Speaker 1: the app. Now, some people might like this, others might not.
Speaker 1: The idea is that if you know when your friends
Speaker 1: are online, you'll interact with them in more ways, like
Speaker 1: sending a message or a direct photo. But if you
Speaker 1: don't want to do this, let me tell you how
Speaker 1: to turn it off. On iOS. You open Instagram, you
Speaker 1: go to your profile page by tapping the little person
Speaker 1: icon in the lower right hand corner of your screen. Then,
Speaker 1: once you're on your profile page, tap the gear icon
Speaker 1: which is near the upper right of the screen. Next
Speaker 1: year edit profile button. This will take you to the
Speaker 1: options page. Scroll down to the section labeled Privacy and
Speaker 1: Security and tap wort says activity status. You can toggle
Speaker 1: the switch next to show activity status to turn it
Speaker 1: on or off. Now, if you're on Android, the instructions
Speaker 1: are slightly different. You open Instagram, then you go to
Speaker 1: your profile page by tapping the little person icon in
Speaker 1: the upper right hand corner of your screen. Once you're
Speaker 1: on your profile page, tap the three little dots in
Speaker 1: the upper right hand corner of your screen to take
Speaker 1: you to the settings page. Scroll down to the section
Speaker 1: labeled Privacy and Security. Then tap where it says activity Status.
Speaker 1: Toggle the switch next to show activity status. Now. When
Speaker 1: this is lit up, that means it's on and it
Speaker 1: will show all of your friends and anyone that you
Speaker 1: message when you're online and the last time that you
Speaker 1: check the app. You'll also see this information if your
Speaker 1: friends have this feature turned on. Now, if you do
Speaker 1: turn activity status off, your activity details will not be
Speaker 1: shared with your friends, but you also won't be able
Speaker 1: to see their activity detail status. Get it, It's a
Speaker 1: two way street. Instagram wants to make sure that you
Speaker 1: have the feature turn on so that you can access
Speaker 1: the data from your friends, so keep that in mind
Speaker 1: if you turn it off. Okay, now time for some
Speaker 1: tips and tricks to take your Instagram stories to the
Speaker 1: next level. First off, if you're posting a picture over
Speaker 1: twenty four hours old, you'll notice that Instagram automatically includes
Speaker 1: a date on the screen that you took the picture.
Speaker 1: If you don't want that. All you have to do
Speaker 1: is tap and drag it into the little trash can
Speaker 1: that appears at the bottom of your screen. If you're
Speaker 1: recording a video and you want to zoom in, well,
Speaker 1: all you have to do is press and hold that
Speaker 1: little recorder, then slide your finger up or down the screen. Yep,
Speaker 1: zooms in or out. If you're using the hands free
Speaker 1: recording option, which I often do, all you have to
Speaker 1: do is pinch on the screen to zoom in or out,
Speaker 1: just like you would if you're looking at a photo
Speaker 1: on iPhone or Android, to zoom in or out for
Speaker 1: a closer look. Now here's a fun tip. I call
Speaker 1: it the eraser effect. First, take a picture, then tap
Speaker 1: the penn icon. Now, normally you would doodle or write
Speaker 1: something on the screen, but instead of doing that, choose
Speaker 1: a color first and then tap and hold the screen.
Speaker 1: You'll notice the entire screen will fill up with that color.
Speaker 1: But here's the fun part. Now, tap the eraser at
Speaker 1: the top of the screen and you can create a
Speaker 1: cool see through effect. Wherever you erase on your screen,
Speaker 1: Basically where you're erasing the color, you'll start to see
Speaker 1: your photo right through it. So think scratch off lottery ticket.
Speaker 1: That's a really fun on. This next tip is similar,
Speaker 1: but instead of filling your screen with a solid color,
Speaker 1: you can fill it with a see through color. First,
Speaker 1: take a photo, then tap the highlighter tool. Now choose
Speaker 1: a color, then tap and hold like you did before,
Speaker 1: and the color will fill the screen, but this time
Speaker 1: it'll be a sea through color. You'll still be able
Speaker 1: to see your photo behind the color. Now, when it
Speaker 1: comes to those stickers, you can have a lot of
Speaker 1: fun with those. But what you might not know is
Speaker 1: that you're not necessarily limited to just one design. So
Speaker 1: after you drag a sticker onto your story, tap it
Speaker 1: and most of the time you're going to see it
Speaker 1: appear in a bunch of different styles, so you can
Speaker 1: just cycle through those and stop it the one you want.
Speaker 1: And finally, if you ever wondered how your friends get
Speaker 1: a sticker to sort of stick to an object on screen,
Speaker 1: you know, follow the action, Well, it's called pinning. You
Speaker 1: have to pin it. So first capture some movement, then
Speaker 1: choose a sticker. Now tap and hold the sticker to
Speaker 1: bring up a special menu that lets you pin it.
Speaker 1: You'll see a slider you slide to see the object
Speaker 1: that you want to pin your sticker to just place
Speaker 1: it on top of that object, So drag it and
Speaker 1: kind of leave it there. Then you can adjust the size. Finally,
Speaker 1: tap where it says pin. Now, when your story video
Speaker 1: starts moving again, you'll notice that the sticker will follow
Speaker 1: the action. How cool is that. There you have it.
Speaker 1: Now that you've got some new tricks to try out,
Speaker 1: I want to see them in action, tag me in
Speaker 1: your next creative Instagram story and I will share some
Speaker 1: of your posts on my stories to my followers. Just
Speaker 1: find me on Instagram. I am at rich on Tech.
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