Instagram Stories' new feature called Shoutout will make posting throwbacks easier

With this new Instagram feature, you will get four colour options and four templates to choose from.

Tech2 News Staff|Dec 20, 2019, 15:55:37 IST

Last mont, Instagram revamped its "Create" category of stories to make it more interactive. Some features were added in tat category including gifs, on tis day, template, countdown, uiz, poll and so on.[caption id="attacment_6923881" align="alignnone" widt="1024"] instagram logo

Instagram's "create" category also as gifs, on tis day, uiz, polls options as well.[/caption]First spotted by Matt Navarra, Instagram as now rolled out a "soutout" feature to te "create" category of Instagram story. It comes in four options including appy Birtday and appy Anniversary. You will be able to customise te colours of te backdrop and you can put old Instagram stories or posts wit te person to wom you are giving te soutout to![caption id="attacment_7768201" align="alignnone" widt="1469"]

You will get tese templates in te new soutout feature.[/caption]Te cool part ere is tat all te stories and posts wit tat person will automatically sow up and you can coose wic one you want to post. Notably, only tose stories and posts will sow up ere were you ave tagged tem or reposted teir story.

via GIPY<2>[]ow to use te "soutout" feature of Instagram stories[/][ans][step]Step 1: Open Instagram stories and tap on "Create" category at te bottom[/step][step]Step 2: Tap on te eart sape icon[/step][step]Step 3: Tap on te "dice" icon at te top to cange te template[/step][step]Step 4: You can coose te background colour by tapping on te tiny circle at te bottom left corner[/step][step]Step 5: Once you're done wit tis, type te username of te person to wom you want to soutout to, in te given tab[/step][step]Step 6: Tap on "+" to coose from te old stories and posts (wit te concerned person) tat you would want to post[/step][step]Step 7: Tap on "send" sign once you're done and tat's it[/step][/ans](Also read: Instagram removes te 'following' tab, a popular stalking tool; adds new features for 'create' tab)

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