Instagram to launch a feature for users to post from the desktop

Apparently, over the course of the pandemic, the company saw a rise in people cruising Instagram from their computers rather than their phones. So after years of solely focusing on its mobile product, Instagram is at long last thinking about letting users post from their computers. A number of Twitter uses noticed that the test feature had gone live on Thursday, and Instagram confirmed it.

“We know that many people access Instagram from their computer,” an Instagram spokesperson said. “To improve that experience, we’re now testing the ability to create a Feed post on Instagram with their desktop browser.”

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The new test feature is the company’s most recent sign of life for its desktop product: Instagram added the ability to view Stories on the web in 2017 and added direct messaging to desktop late last year.