Instagram is testing its direct message feature for the web on mobile and on the desktop, according to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who tweeted a screenshot of the feature.
Instagram is testing Direct on Web pic.twitter.com/bpdY9bep24
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) February 12, 2019
Currently, the desktop experience on Instagram is a minimal, boring version of the mobile app that shows little more than the feed. There’s still no direct way to upload photos, and the service is slow to add new features. For example browser notification support was added only last September! Instagram has previously said it has “no plans to let users upload photos or stories from the desktop”, so direct messages coming to the web would be a huge step forward for the previously mobile-only app.
