Instagram is turning up the volume on music sharing. Starting this week, the platform is finally adding the ability for users to listen to previews of Spotify songs directly within Instagram Stories.
Until now, you could share a Spotify track to your Story, but friends had to tap through to Spotify to actually hear it. With this update, viewers can now enjoy a snippet of the song inside Instagram, making sharing and discovering music feel more seamless, and a lot more fun.
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The new feature comes just weeks after Instagram rolled out a similar music integration for Notes, letting users stream songs from Spotify right into their Notes feed. Together, these updates signal Instagram’s bigger push to become a real-time hub for music discovery and to chip away at TikTok’s stronghold on viral sounds and chart-topping hits.
And music isn’t the only thing getting a glow-up. Instagram has also announced new fonts for Stories and Reels rolling out this year. To kick things off, they’ve dropped a limited-time font inspired by Rosalía’s own handwriting. Type special characters like :-) *** or <3 and you’ll unlock secret symbols hand-drawn by the Spanish superstar herself.