Instagram Stories set to take on TikTok by going vertical; Here’s what you will get

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Instagram Stories are set to get a makeover! Yes, Instagram looks likely to step into the world of TikTok and roll out a feature that helped provide this Chinese app tremendous success. What will it look like? Well, Matt Navarra, the social media consultant noted that Meta-owned Instagram is testing a new vertical swipe stories feed in Turkey. Right now, Instagram stories are horizontally-scrollable. If this update will be live for all the users, then you will be able to move from one person's story to another with the vertical move, while horizontally, you can swipe between the different stories from the same user. The vertical story feature will give it a more TikTok like feel. In short, Instagram Stories will empower your finger fully- just swipe vertically or horizontally. Here’s how it will look:

Not just in Turkey, but Tech journalist Thássius Veloso also revealed about the vertical story feature update in Brazil. This can be seen as a possibility that the other countries may receive the update soon with the vertical story feature. A year ago in February 2021, Instagram had already announced that the social media giant was working on a vertical stories feature, but till that time no user was able to use this feature.