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Instagram Stories’ question stickers can now be used to share music

Instagram Stories’ question stickers can now be used to share music

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Instagram is bringing some new features to its Stories format, including a new countdown sticker, and question stickers that can be used in Live videos and to share music recommendations. The latter are best described as “all of the current Instagram Story features remixed into each other,” which seems inevitable given how many there are now.

The question sticker becomes more versatile today, as users can now respond to questions with music. Tapping on a viewer’s response will play the song, and users can choose to respond with a message or share the song to their own story. Sharing a song opens up the camera for the user to take a photo or video as the music plays in the background, and there’s also new camera effects that’ll respond to the music being played.

Question stickers are also coming to Live videos to better organize Q&A interactions. Before, questions could get lost inside the chaotic chat stream, but with today’s update, questions chosen by the user streaming will be shown on-screen, so all viewers can see which questions are being answered. Questions can be asked on the Live user’s story before and during the Live video, and streamers can now also share photos and videos from their camera roll to their live video.

Countdown stickers are interactive stickers within Stories which let users count down to upcoming moments that could be as big as New Year’s, or as small as the end of a workday. Creating a countdown sticker will keep it in your sticker tray to reuse until the countdown ends. Friends can tap the countdown to follow or share it to their own stories, and it’ll notify them when the countdown ends.

The updates are rolling out on iOS and Android today.