Instagram Stories Desktop Experience Gets Refreshed

Single-Story viewing was replaced with a carousel

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Instagram Stories has a new look on desktop.

The Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network said the single-Story viewing experience for desktop users was replaced with a carousel of clickable previews of the previous and next Stories, making the experience more immersive and easier to navigate.

Instagram has made other, more subtle changes to the Stories experience on desktop over the past month, including a larger viewer size, controls to pause and resume playing Stories, the ability to mute and unmute audio and other design tweaks.

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