Instagram is bringing the ‘long-awaited’ repost feature
With this feature, users can easily share public reels or posts with others and that repost can also be seen in friends’ feeds.
The ‘repost feature’ is finally coming to Instagram. Through this, users can directly share friends’ photos.
This feature has been around for a long time on other social media platforms and even in some parts of Instagram. However, this time, the repost option is being officially added for the first time.
The British daily Independent wrote that the feature now has some limitations. For example, the image that will be reposted will not be visible in the main grid of the user’s profile but will be in a separate ‘repost’ tab.
Nevertheless, with this change, users can easily share public reels or posts with others and that repost can also be seen in friends’ feeds.
Another well-liked feature that is already present on other platforms, such as TikTok, is being borrowed by Instagram. After borrowing the idea of Reels from TikTok, Instagram is now introducing another tab called Friends Feed, where users can see the reels of accounts in their friends list. It is a feed similar to TikTok that will only allow them to see content from people they know.
Tha tab will also show reels and posts that friends have liked or commented on. Users can, however, mute the likes or comments of a particular user and disable the feature that displays their likes and comments in that feed if they so choose.
In 2020, as TikTok gained popularity, Instagram introduced Reels. Reels were one of several features the platform borrowed from other social media. Since then, Reels have become very popular, especially when TikTok started to be banned in some countries.
The recent changes aim to show content that people are actually interested in on Instagram's feed.
Over the past few years, the company has faced criticism over Instagram's news feed. So they started responding to that criticism with various tactics, such as giving less importance to political content and prioritizing friends' posts.
These changes are currently rolling out in the United States, but Instagram says they will be rolled out globally in phases.
