Instagram’s testing out a brand new option to touch upon particular photos inside a carousel publish, with some customers capable of hyperlink their reply to a photograph or video, based mostly on its assigned quantity within the show.

As you possibly can see on this instance, posted by Brent Colmer (and shared by Lindsey Gamble), the brand new choice permits customers to @point out the variety of a picture inside a carousel to append their remark to that particular picture or video.

So, for instance, for those who needed to touch upon the second picture within the show, you’d write “@2” then enter your remark.

That remark is then displayed together with a thumbnail of the precise picture:

It may very well be one other option to drive extra targeted engagement, and encourage extra interplay round every ingredient, whereas additionally clearing up confusion when commenting on carousel posts.

Carousel posts have grow to be a key focus for IG because it appears to encourage extra private sharing within the app. Final October, it started testing collaborative carousel posts, which permits different customers to contribute to carousel feed updates, whereas extra lately, it additionally started testing expanded carousels, with as much as 20 photos accessible inside a single replace.

With each choices, having a easy option to particularly touch upon every body inside a carousel may very well be of worth, and will allow extra engagement and interplay inside the principle IG feed.

Instagram’s testing the brand new carousel tagging choice with a restricted variety of customers at this stage.