Google introduced a direct share feature on Android with Marshmallow. The feature made it easy to share media or links from any app on an Android-powered smartphone. The feature works well in email and messaging apps as well as note-taking apps. However, it’s up to app developers to enable users to share directly to an app using direct share. It appears that Instagram now supports this feature.
Since it’s up to developers if they want to support direct share or not, Instagram was among the many apps that still don’t support this feature, but that appears to have changed.
Multiple reports have surfaced online about Instagram now being available in the direct share menu. This means that users can now send something straight to a contact through the direct message feature of Instagram.
Don’t get this confused with the Facebook-owned Instagram’s new standalone messaging app called Direct that the company is currently testing right now. This functionality now works with the main Instagram app’s direct message feature.
Instagram appears to be properly supporting this feature as not only will users find a general option to share content directly in a DM on the app in the direct share menu, they will also see individual contents in the top section much like in the way that they’ve already become used to with other apps. The feature works as it should be and that’s great for users who use Instagram DMs frequently.