Tuesday, 23 May 2017

You can now search Instagram stories by location and hashtag

Instagram’s ephemeral live stories are coming to the Explore tab. Starting today, you’ll be able to browse stories by their location or their hashtag, as long as they were shared from a public account. It’s a feature that will show off the massive amount of photos and videos being shared around the world every day on Instagram. And, as with most story-related features, it’s an idea Snapchat had first.

Starting today, you’ll see new “rings” at the top of the Explore feed showing you stories taking place near your physical location — a city, for example. Tap into it and you’ll see public stories that were tagged with that location (“San Francisco”). If you want to hide an individual post from search, go to the list of story viewers and tap...

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