Instagram, messages with secret codes arrive: here’s how they work

Instagram It is prepared to accommodate a new tool to make available to its users, which on the one hand will guarantee greater protection as regards the confidentiality of a message and on …

Instagram, messages with secret codes arrive: here's how they work


Instagram It is prepared to accommodate a new tool to make available to its users, which on the one hand will guarantee greater protection as regards the confidentiality of a message and on the other, increase the level of “engagement” between content creators and followers. This particular type of posts or videos will in fact be closed, and to access what is hidden from the protection of protection it will be necessary to insert an ad hoc secret code by those who have created that specific content.

To preview this new functionality was the Instagram @design account, which shared a closed king on his social profile a closed king: the post, specifically, is accessible exclusively by the app and not by the desktop version of the program. In the message, of which you can initially appreciate only a blurred preview, the symbol of one appears at the top right keyprecisely to indicate specifically that it is an unlockable content with the insertion of a code. By clicking on it, in fact, a second blunder page opens, in the center of which we read “unlock this Reel”, while a line under the decisive suggestion to guarantee the decoding of the content, or “1st # of the caption”, that is to say the first hashtag in the caption.

By checking the list of hashtags, the first proposed by @design results #threads, so inserting it and clicking on “Submit“Finally, it is possible to solve the protection code and open the Reel. In addition to giving a user the opportunity to make available an exclusive content for a restricted circle of friends, this tool can also provide content creators with a more engaging way to stimulate and make the interaction with followers captivating, perhaps creating a commercial promotion with the proposal of an exclusive discount or by giving the preview of a news or a publication.

As mentioned, this new functionality is not yet available to all users, but apparently it will not be necessary to wait too long: al

Certainly, to see from the comments at the bottom of the post in which it is shown in preview, there is that the tool has already attracted attention by arousing interest and curiosity among the users of the famous social social network.