First off, for in the future solely, Instagram’s changing its traditional Tales reactions set with six love-themed emojis, which all embrace hearts in varied type.

It’s an attention-grabbing strategy to have a good time the occasion, and the primary time that Instagram has changed its Reactions set completely. 

That might assist to spark renewed curiosity and a spotlight within the app.

As you may see within the second screenshot above, Instagram’s additionally including animated variations of those reactions in DMs.

“When somebody exhibits you’re keen on and reacts to your story with one of many limited-time Valentine’s fast reactions, it is going to amplify the love with a enjoyable animation in your DM chat thread”

There’ll even be a particular animation set for every emoji response despatched by your followers, once you verify who has considered your story on the day.

Instagram’s additionally taking the chance to focus on some latest additions which additionally tie into the theme, together with its new profile sharing possibility, which lets you shortly share your profile data.

Instagram’s additionally introduced again Valentine’s Day stickers for each Tales and Reels, offering one other strategy to hyperlink into the occasion.

Lastly, Instagram has additionally shared some perception into the most well-liked love-related hashtags and matters, based mostly on hashtag use.

Some attention-grabbing perception into the state of the IG sphere, whereas the assorted Valentine’s choices will present loads of alternative to interact within the occasion.

Instagram’s Valentine’s Day components will solely be round for in the future (on iOS), so verify them out when you can.