Instagram Launches New Reactions, Stickers and More for Valentine’s Day

Instagram’s trying to get into the Valentine’s Day spirit with a spread of themed activations and choices that you would be able to combine into your posts and Tales.

First off, for someday solely, Instagram’s changing its typical Tales reactions set with six love-themed emojis, which all embrace hearts in numerous kind.

It’s an fascinating approach to rejoice the occasion, and the primary time that Instagram has changed its Reactions set fully. 

That would assist to spark renewed curiosity and a spotlight within the app.

As you’ll be able to 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, once you test who has seen your story on the day.

Instagram’s additionally taking the chance to spotlight some latest additions which additionally tie into the theme, together with its new profile sharing possibility, which lets you shortly share your profile information.

Instagram’s additionally introduced again Valentine’s Day stickers for each Tales and Reels, offering one other approach to hyperlink into the occasion.

Lastly, Instagram has additionally shared some perception into the most well-liked love-related hashtags and matters, based mostly on hashtag use.

Some fascinating perception into the state of the IG sphere, whereas the varied Valentine’s choices will present loads of alternative to interact within the occasion.

Instagram’s Valentine’s Day components will solely be round for someday (on iOS), so test them out when you can.