At Facebook’s F8 conference, Instagram
announced that it’s added offline support for its Android app, so you can
browse and create posts even without a connection.
Here’s how it works: any posts your phone
has already downloaded while connected to Wi-Fi or your mobile data plan will
be available to view, comment on, like and save. You’ll also be able to create
posts and save drafts. Once you’re back online, your actions will be beamed to
the app’s servers.
You’ll also be able to see content you’ve
loaded previously, such as as profiles they’ve visited before and posts in the
Explore tab.
That should see Instagram in good stead
in countries where mobile connections are spotty. It’ll be interesting to see
if it extends offline functionality to accommodate Stories; it now has more
than 600 million users and about 200 million of them now use the ephemeral
messaging feature (for those keeping score, that’s more than Snapchat).
Instagram also recently added a couple of
new features, including selfie stickers and a more handy one that allows you to
group your saved posts into collections.
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