Instagram’s seeking to get into the Valentine’s Day spirit with a variety of themed activations and choices that you may combine into your posts and Tales.
First off, for at some point solely, Instagram’s changing its ordinary Tales reactions set with six love-themed emojis, which all embody hearts in numerous type.
It’s an fascinating technique to have fun the occasion, and the primary time that Instagram has changed its Reactions set solely.
That might assist to spark renewed curiosity and a focus within the app.
As you may see within the second screenshot above, Instagram’s additionally including animated variations of those reactions in DMs.
“When someone shows you love and reacts to your story with one of the limited-time Valentine’s quick reactions, it will amplify the love with a fun animation in your DM chat thread”
There’ll even be a particular animation set for every emoji response despatched by your followers, if you examine who has seen your story on the day.
Instagram’s additionally taking the chance to focus on some latest additions which additionally tie into the theme, together with its new profile sharing possibility, which allows you to shortly share your profile information.

Instagram’s additionally introduced again Valentine’s Day stickers for each Tales and Reels, offering one other technique to hyperlink into the occasion.
Lastly, Instagram has additionally shared some perception into the preferred love-related hashtags and subjects, based mostly on hashtag use.

Some fascinating perception into the state of the IG sphere, whereas the assorted Valentine’s choices will present loads of alternative to interact within the occasion.
Instagram’s Valentine’s Day parts will solely be round for at some point (on iOS), so examine them out when you can.