hey everyone its Adrienne welcome back to my channel today I am in Seattle so
I'm literally sitting on my living room floor at home in a Seattle obviously
hence the not normal background and whatnot but today's Saturday and I am
bringing you a brand new video I haven't done one of these videos in such a long
time and it makes me so happy I was just looking back at my channel the other day
sneaking huh what haven't I done in a while and what do I miss doing what do
people like and it's of course Instagram hacks with all of the new updates
rolling out with so many different social media apps it's hard to keep up
and that's why I'm here to kind of keep you on track so today I'm going to talk
about some new tips and tricks that I've discovered recently that I think are so
cool and just very very helpful in general in terms of building an audience
and just making your Instagram posts and stories a lot more unique and also some
random you know little tricks that will help you not be creepy and awkward like
when you send that accidental DM that you didn't mean to send and you want to
unsend it but you don't know how but now you do know how cuz I'm gonna tell you
also apologies in advance for the Sun it keeps like hiding behind clouds and then
coming out and so I'm gonna be like as white as a ghost and then it's gonna be
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without further ado you guys let's get into this video alright so Instagram
hack number one has to do with Instagram stories and I know you probably always
see people just have these solid colored backgrounds and what I used to do is go
to google and type in like blue background screenshot it and then use it
as my story background but lo and behold there is a way easier way to do this so
now all you need to do is go over to your stories take a photo of literally
anything because it's not gonna matter we're gonna have an overlay on it and
then if you click the normal pen button and then click whatever color you want
to use then you just tap and hold on your photo and the background will turn
that color and if you want a tinted overlay but not completely like one
solid color you do the same exact technique but instead of the pen button
you use the little slanted brush pen button situation and then you get this
nice little hinted overlay that is slightly transparent so it makes it so
that if you want to use a photo and type some words you can just see it a lot
better because there is that overlay on top
so there you have it so happy number two is that you can share other people's
instrument posts onto your story and it'll actually have their name and
everything on it so basically if you see a post that you really like and want to
share it with your viewers or your fans or your followers then simply click on
the little share button that looks like a little envelope arrow situation move
on that and then tap on share post to your followers or to your story I forget
what it says because I'm not on it right now and from there it'll just put the
post on your story it'll automatically create a background that has to do with
the colors in the post that's super nice and it'll usually make it like a
gradient background and then I also recommend like actually tagging the
person so that they can see it and know that you posted but it's just a cool way
to like share a lot of people screenshot people's photos and then put it on your
story this is just a way easier way to directly put it on your story right when
you see the post so really cool thing I didn't notice it but it does happen
umber three is the dreaded sending that DM that you didn't want to send you
sounded a little too thirsty whatever it is you can unsend it so when you send a
DM now simply tap and hold on the message and click on send now if the
person has already seen it then they've already seen it you know I haven't fully
like I've tested this you can't unsend it but I don't know if someone gets a
notification you know what no I don't think you do because I tested it with my
fake account or my other account I didn't get a notification so yeah just
keep in mind you can always unsend it you can always on send it we're just you
know beep beep ballsy and send it anyway I'm not here to judge I'm just here to
give you some help packet number four is something that I guess has been out for
like a month or so now but I just never knew you can actually share instead of
screenshots of Spotify song you can share a song directly from Spotify on to
your Instagram story so when you go to Spotify you find the song or the album
and then you click share it while you click the three little dots in the
corner and then you click share and it'll actually give you that option
right there to put it on your Instagram story and then when it's on your story
the viewer actually has the option of clicking to Spotify and taking them to
that song so it's just this very direct way to share music versus just
screenshots and then the person has to go find the artist and whatever searched
for it on their own this is just a way better streamlined version of this and
I'm so happy this exists now I can't believe I didn't know it did and also
just so you guys know if it's not working for you make sure that your apps
are both updated Spotify and Instagram and sometimes it takes another like 24
hours for it to fully roll out like I updated them yesterday and it didn't
actually work until today when I'm filming this so just give it some time
it will work you don't have to do anything else you don't have to like
sync them separately it'll just work yay the next hack is that you can now upload
multiple photos to your story at a time so this one has not yet updated on my
phone like I was just saying for some reason I can't do with this on my phone
yet but I'll show you how you can do it I hopefully hopefully it'll show up in
the next couple days it'll roll out slowly but if you go to your story and
you click on the little album button or you pull up it usually just says last 24
hours but now you actually have your whole gallery and you can select
multiple photos that you want to put on your story and then it'll take you to a
screen where you can customize each photo individually so instead of like
going your camera roll each time you can kind of select the ones you want to use
edit them and then put them all to your story right there so I thought that was
really really cool again haven't experienced it yet cuz
it's not on my phone what's ironic is I make videos like this and I make a lot
of videos about phones and yet for some reason I'm always the last one to get
the updates when updates first roll out they like they roll out at different
times so someone else might get it before me like on their phone and I
think it has to do with like region you're in carriers like all these
different things but I'm always last and I'm like yo I need to make these videos
so like give me the updates anyway things you don't need to know but just
fascinating right pack number six is another kind of like creepy stalker
thing that I think will come in handy for a lot of you so as you probably know
when you're going through your DMS it'll say like active 16 minutes ago we're
like active now or active one hour ago if you for some reason don't want people
to see that on your profile like if you don't want someone to know that you were
active because you like didn't respond to their message or I don't know
whatever you can actually turn that off so how do you do that is you go to your
Instagram profile click on the little Settings icon and then scroll all the
way down to the bottom where it says activity status and then once you have
activity status it'll probably be toggled on so it'll be blue but if you
toggle that off your activity status won't show anymore which is super nice
yeah so then people who follow you won't be able to see when you were last active
on Instagram which is just kind of nice for certain reasons I don't care again
what your personal reasons are like you can do whatever you need to do but I
figured that some people won't want that on their
so comes in handy pack number seven is not so much a hack but more of just a
fun thing you can do I've seen a lot of people do this and I never really jumped
on the train so Instagram templates that people put on their stories so not only
are these a great way to get more exposure because when people end up
sharing them they have your user name on them but also it's just a way for your
followers to get to know you better so what you can do is you can find other
people's templates or and you can probably like Google search Instagram
story templates or you can easily make your own on Microsoft Word on PicMonkey
on Photoshop and just you can make a cute fun background and ask a bunch of
questions or do kind of a this or that Mada model and you can kind of just do
whatever you want you answer and put them on your story just make sure that
you put your handle on the template so that if people share it it's just more
exposure for you and again it's just like a cute little fun way for people to
get to know you it's kind of like trending right now or was like in the
last few weeks couple months whatever I'm always a little late on the trans
okay but yeah I just thought that was like a fun little thing that you can do
yourself if you ever want talking over a is for if you want to mute someone that
you follow without the risk of them being offended that you unfollowed them
so you can still follow them and you can amuse them and you can like not see
their post not see their stories this is a very new feature and so again because
I'm always last on all the trains my phone doesn't show it but I'll insert a
screenshot here all you need to do if you want to mute someone and have them
not know they will not find out as you go to one of their posts click the dots
in the upper corner and then just simply tap on the mute button and that'll just
make it so that they are no longer in your feet and if you you can do the same
thing for DM like direct messages you can mute a message it doesn't mean you
won't receive the message but you won't get a notification for it so can just
block out some of the spam but yeah waiting for this to to happen even
though there's not really anyone I can think of that I'd want to mute but
normally I'm just savage and unfollow home park number nine is something that
you guys may already know but I just I've been noticing it a lot more lately
and I keep thinking it's an effect but it's not so on people's Instagram
stories oftentimes you'll see this kind of shadow effect like you'll see a word
and it'll have like this drop shadow I always thought like oh my gosh is that a
new feature but it's not all you need to do is type out a word twice make one of
the colors darker and one of the colors lighter and then simply just layer the
lighter one like slightly on top of the darker one and it just creates this
really natural like shadow effect that you create
it's it is some work not really it's not that hard but yeah it just kind of adds
some dynamic little punches to your stories I don't know what fuck number 10
is for if you are someone who likes to use the instrument filters that like the
app provides you I personally don't I use like outside editing apps if you
guys want to see how I edit my photos I will link video down below showing you
oh my legs are getting tired but if you are someone who uses the Instagram
filters did you know that when you put the filter on your photo if you tap and
hold on your the photo it'll show you the originals so if you're like you know
in one of your little editing zones and you want to like you know remind
yourself what the original photo looked like to make sure you're not getting too
carried away you can just tap and see the original so very helpful I didn't
know that I don't know if you knew that I don't use the filters hopefully it's
useful on that similar note with editing on Instagram I never knew this but once
you are in that editing zone sometimes you like forget what you've done like
you don't remember did I already sharpen this like what did I do that achieved
this so fun fact if there is a grey dot underneath the editing tool then it
means you've used it so if you're like in your little editing frenzy and you
need to go back and be like oh why does this look this way you can see which
effects you've used that's really helpful and just random but I never know
and there goes the Sun behind the clouds again not even adjusting at this time
and last but not least hack number 12 is to use the Lux effect on the photo so I
actually had no idea this was a thing how I don't know you guys probably did
cuz you're smart but above the photo when you're editing it there is a Sun
button and what that is it's not brightness or contrast it's this button
that is well looks obviously and basically it can help even out uneven
exposure and like it can help with brightness and contrast and add a little
bit more details where details are needed so it's a little more complicated
than just brightness and contrast but it's it's an effect that exists and a
lot of people don't notice it goes unnoticed it goes under the radar it's
underrated but it's definitely a thing so I recommend checking it out all right
you guys that's it for my 12 Instagram new Instagram hacks that you need to
know I hope you enjoyed it give it a thumbs up if you liked it and comment
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tips or tricks that you guys have found let me know how you like the
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