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Answer an Instagram DM

How-toNew in 0.2.4

For anyone replying in Instagram Direct on the desktop site: the inbox (instagram.com/direct/inbox) and the Messages pop-up on the home feed.

Instagram DMs get the shortest drafts, pasted in one go.
  1. Open the chat and click into its message box, or click the wave button next to it. The panel switches to Instagram DM and shows the conversation with their username.
  2. Press Enter, with or without a point.
  3. Click Insert into message. Instagram sends on Enter too, so Riff only pastes the draft. You press Enter.

Instagram messages are short, and so are Riff's: a few words to a few sentences, matching how they write.

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