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Instagram will let you recap 2024 with a collage for your story

You can combine your favorite pictures from the year and share them with friends.

You can combine your favorite pictures from the year and share them with friends.

The Instagram icon is featured in the middle of a background filled with pink, orange, and purple shapes.
The Instagram icon is featured in the middle of a background filled with pink, orange, and purple shapes.
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Instagram will now let you showcase your favorite moments from 2024 by adding a collage to your story. The new feature, which is only available through the first week of January, lets you combine a bunch of pictures from throughout the year and share them with friends.

You can currently only create collage-like stories by adding a photo to your story, resizing it, moving it around the screen, and then adding more images as stickers. Instagram’s layout feature also lets you add multiple photos to a story, but they only appear in a grid format.

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Instagram is rolling out some other temporary features as well, including end-of-year-themed “Add Yours” templates, allowing your friends to reply to your story with one of their own. There are also new “New Year” and “Countdown” text effects, holiday chat themes for DMs, as well as secret phrases, such as “happy New Year,” in notes and DMs that trigger special effects.