photosharing app instagram is rolling out the support to add lyrics to its stories these lyrics will be synced to the soundtrack youve added with the music sticker which is currently available in us germany and france in the stories videomusic can be a big part of expression on instagram between adding music to stories connecting with artists sending song recs backandforth there are lots of ways to connect with music on ig now were building on our music features and introducing the ability to add lyrics when you add a song to your story an instagram spokesperson told tech crunchin its faq section instagram says users will first need to add a music sticker to their instagram story and then search for a song in the apps audio library if lyrics are available for the song they select then they will be given an option to choose different fonts and designs for them further users can can edit which part of the song they want to play when someone watches their story they can tap the lyrics to learn more about the artist or listen to more of the songrecently instagram announced that it is launching a new optin feature that will allow users to reduce the amount of data consumed on the photo sharing platform the feature has been designed specifically for emerging markets where data plans and internet speeds may be limited instagram said in a statement with this optin mode people across the world can view their favourite content on instagram with reduced image loading time by reducing the amount of data that instagram uses on their mobile phones it addedthis optin mode will be rolled out for android users over the week once enabled it will disable videos to be preloadeded and highresolution images to be downloaded except in certain circumstances that the user chooses