The clubhouse may have taken the world by storm over the past year, but their competitors are fast working on competing services, such as Spaces Twitter and Fireside. According to a leaked post posted on Twitter, it is reported that Instagram is working on a new ‘Audio Rooms’ feature.
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The rumor feature of the image sharing platform was first spotted on Twitter after mobile developer and reader Alessandro Paluzzi posted two screenshots in a tweet earlier today. The features seem to have been enabled through the app’s backend engineering to enable hidden strings, which indicates that the feature is still at an early stage.
In the first screenshot of Paluzzi, the Direct Messaging section of the Instagram app shows the third Microphone icon to the left of the Compose and Video Call buttons at the top left of the app. The second image shows a basic “Loading ..” message next to its user profile at the bottom of the screen and a microphone and cross-image, seemingly to move and extract yourself and leave the Sound Room.
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However, it looks like Sound Rooms isn’t the only feature that Instagram seems to be working on. Paluzzi tweaked another image that shows the Facebook-owned app could work on end-to-end encryption for some of its chairs. This feature may appear when users try to start a new conversation and is displayed with a “Start end-to-end encrypted conversation” tab above the contact’s name.
End-to-end encrypted revenue on Instagram is the next step in Facebook’s plans to bring its chat services together. The move was previously announced by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg years ago when he said the company planned to make its chat services interactive.
The company plans to do this by linking the ‘backend’ of the chat services of Instagram DMs, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp Messenger to be interactive so that users on one service can talk to each other. However, the development of end-to-end encryption may be at an early stage and no one currently knows when it will be rolled out.