Instagram rolling out new feature to translate stories

A new Instagram Stories feature is likely coming soon. The company is now working on bringing translation to its most popular product, Stories, reports HT Times on Monday.

Currently, it offers translation for text on its platform — comments, captions and profiles.

Instagram will show a “See Translation” button below text on posts that are written in a language different from the default language of your Instagram app. This option will show up for translations available for that particular language.

It was first shared by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi who has now updated that Instagram has started testing this feature.

According to screenshots shared by Paluzzi, Instagram is testing the ability to translate text in Stories. This feature will be visible as a “See Translation” button that will appear just below the username in Stories.

When users tap on that Instagram will show the translated text in a popup box below.

First, it will display the original text that is written in the Story, and just below that it will display the translated text.

Paluzzi tested this with a sentence that said, “Hi this story is a story translation test,” which is actually a translated text from the original text in Italian.

Some Stories are filled entirely with text so it’s interesting to see how Instagram’s translation will work in such cases.

This Instagram feature is still in test mode so, not all users will see it.