You may see a pop-up that is introducing this feature. You will be able to invite others to your Room after you start a live session. Your views will also have an option to request being in the Room. There you can get access to your lenses and additional live settings. After the end of your Rooms session, you can also save it to your IGTV videos.
Instagram Rooms feature was presented last week along with a viewing functionality available to everyone. Now you can also browse IGTV Explore sections to watch more Rooms.
More background behind recent test and changes on Instagram:
Live Rooms & Private Like Counts 😳
— Adam Mosseri 😷 (@mosseri) March 5, 2021
This week we unintentionally launched private like counts to a lot of people, our apologies. The idea is clearly polarizing, so we’re looking for a way to bring the idea to people who want it and not to those who don’t.#thisweekoninstagram pic.twitter.com/aS0p4tkDfV
Tester Context:
- 📲 Instagram is a popular social network owned by Facebook. In addition to photos and videos, it supports lots of different content formats such as Reels, IGTV, Live Streams and more.
- 📲 Instagram is also available in Beta and you can opt-in as a tester via Google Play.
- 📲 Instagram is also available in Alpha and you can opt-in by joining its Alpha Testing Google Group
