Instagram Stories Sound Not Turning Off? Here's What You Can Do – Fossbytes

Instagram users have been in complete dismay for the last two days. Twitter and other social platforms are bubbling with posts about the Instagram stories feature not working properly. The sound is automatically playing on the devices without the user’s permission. Usually, the sound is muted while viewing the stories, and users have to tap on the speaker icon to unmute them. The stories feature doesn’t play audio by default in most apps. If you consider WhatsApp, another Meta product, it also doesn’t play sound while viewing the stories. You have to tap the icon to allow audio playback. Why is the Instagram Stories feature not working properly? Instagram stories have begun posing problems for many in the last two days. Some users even shared that the issue rose up after they recently updated the app. Whatever the case may be, it is a case of a broken feature within the app that is playing sound automatically when it shouldn’t. Some users tried muting their phones to turn off the audio playback, but that wasn’t effective at all. It seems that the app is overriding sound permissions when a user is viewing stories in the app. Similarly, reels are also…
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