If you frequently use the Instagram app, it's likely that you share dozens of posts with friends through direct messages (DMs). As many people share posts from different accounts with their friends this way, Instagram has made this process easier by introducing a new feature called Collaborative Collections.
So, what is this feature and how can you create a collaborative group on Instagram?
What are Collaborative Collections on Instagram?
A few days ago, Meta, the developer of the Instagram app, launched Collaborative Collections. This feature allows users to save and organize posts in a designated space to facilitate sharing with friends.
Collaborative Collections is an evolution of the Collections feature that was added to the Instagram app in 2017.This feature allows users to group saved posts into one collection for easy access. The new feature expands on this idea by enabling users to create collections with their friends.
In Collections, you're the only one who can see Instagram posts you've saved, but with Collaborative Groups, you can share saved posts with your friends, and anyone added to that group can add more posts to see them.
Cooperative groups are not the only feature of Instagram that is focused on sharing content with friends.
The "Close Friends" feature allows you to share exclusive stories with specific friends, and there is also the "Quick Share" feature to easily send posts to friends by providing a shortcut to a group of people you frequently communicate with on Instagram.
To use this feature, long press the "Share" button below any post and a pop-up window will appear with personal photos of a few friends you frequently communicate with. Swipe your finger from the share button to your friend's account picture, and the post will be sent to them immediately without any additional steps.
How to create cooperative groups on Instagram:
If you want to try the new Collaborative Collections feature on Instagram, follow these steps.
- Open the Instagram app on your phone.
- Find a post that you want to save with a group of friends, then press and hold the save icon.
- Click on the "New Collection" option, add a suitable name for the collection, and activate the "Collaborative" option.
- Next, search for a friend or several friends either by clicking on their names in the "Share with" section, where the names of friends you have messaged through Direct Messages (DM) will appear, or by entering the names of other friends in the search bar.
- Once you have selected all of your friends, click on the "Save" button in the upper-right corner.
- The post you saved in the collaborative collection will automatically be shared with all of the friends you added to the collection via Direct Messages.
Some things to keep in mind when using the Collaborative Collections feature on Instagram:
- Collaborators cannot view a post from a private account unless they follow that account.
- If the creator of a post you shared in a collaborative group deletes it, it will be automatically removed from your group.
- You cannot share collaborative groups with others.
- You cannot create collaborative groups on the desktop version of Instagram.
