Special emoticons called emoji are loved by users on Instagram. We can find them in the comments under nearly every photo. This has not escaped notice of people responsible for development of Instagram platform, which is demonstrated by the changes that appeared in the latest website update. When using the Instagram official app on our phone we can find new bar which is located above field for text input, and it contains emoticons that we can add directly to our answer.

New bar will be automatically refilled by emojis which we use most often. At this moment there will be no option to choose which emoji will appear on the new bar, and app will choose them for us automatically. New feature is already available both on Android and iOS. To receive new bar that allows you to use emoji in faster way, simply update Instagram application to the latest version.

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