Earlier this week, Instagram released an update and there is a terrifying rumour going around social media that Instagram secretly added a feature that if you screenshot someone's Instagram they'll get a notification (like on Snapchat). Your days of Instagram stalking could be over and you didn't even know it.
Here's the thing though – that's totally not happening.
Here's the truth. Instagram did release a new feature that will alert you if someone screenshot your (Snapchat-style) direct messages (those photo and video messages that vanish after you've seen them.)
But Instagram doesn't send notifications if you screenshot a normal screen photo. The confusion comes from people seeing notifications that someone has screenshotted their message, and assuming it was a photo. It doesn't explain what the screenshot was of, it just notifi that a screenshot was taken.
It's all explained in Instagram's blog post from November 21.
Read Instagram's statement and see for yourself. They wrote, "Swipe right into the camera to take a photo or video, then tap the arrow to send it privately. You can choose a group or create one in just a few taps — and you can also send to individual friends at the same time. Send anything you want, from inside jokes to your worst selfies. Unlike other messages in Direct, these photos and videos disappear from your friends’ inboxes after they have seen them. And you’ll see if they replayed it or took a screenshot."
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