Published on: 2025-04-22 07:14:00
Meet Instagram's newest feature: Instagram Blend. The social media platform is rolling out a new Reels feature that's a feed shared between you and friends you message in the app -- whether one-on-one or a group chat. You can invite friends to a Blend in a direct message. When you tap the Blend icon, Instagram will show you suggested Reels based on what you and your friends like -- maybe content you wouldn't see otherwise. Instagram expects to roll out new suggested Reels everyday. Instagram
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 11:00:23
Instagram is adding yet another way to liven up your Reels recommendations. The app is rolling out “Blend,” a feature that allows you to create a custom feed within a DM that combines your recommendations with a friend’s. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Blend has been in the works for some time. It was first spotted in the app more than a year ago, but was only an internal prototype at the time. Now, Meta is finally making it official, describing it as an “invite-only Reels feed for you a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 11:32:06
Instagram appears to be quietly testing locked reels that viewers would have to unlock with a code and a provided hint. The feature is a simple way to increase engagement with the creator’s content, but it could also offer creators and celebrities a way to share exclusive reels with their most dedicated fans, who are more likely to know the answer to hints. For example, a creator may lock a reel with the hint, “my birthday” or “my dog’s name” in order to share exclusive content with loyal follo
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Don't have time to sit through an entire Instagram Reel but still want to see the whole thing unfold? Good news -- you can now watch Reels at twice the speed. Instagram, which is owned by Meta, called it "a highly requested feature from our community." "We hope being able to fast forward helps give you more control over your Reels experience," a representative for Instagram said in a statement Thursday. The feature has been available on other social media and video services, including Netflix
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-24 19:00:47
Instagram has rolled out an update for Reels that will let users go through more of them more quickly. As TechCrunch has reported, the app now allows users to play Reels at 2x the speed by long-pressing on the right or the left edge of the screen. They'd simply have to release it if they'd like to resume watching at normal speed. Some users have had access to the feature for a while now, while others used to have it until Instagram removed it from their accounts, likely because the app was only
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 11:50:48
Meta on Thursday announced a new feature coming to Instagram users. More specifically, this new feature should benefit those who like to watch Reels, Instagram’s short video platform that competes with TikTok. With the update, users can fast-forward Reels videos. You can now fast-forward Instagram Reels Over the last few years, both TikTok and Instagram Reels have considerably increased the maximum length limit for videos. Whereas previously videos could only be up to 15 seconds long, they can
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 13:12:26
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has apologised after Instagram users were subjected to a flood of violence, gore, animal abuse and dead bodies on their Reels feeds. Users reported the footage dominating their feeds after an apparent malfunction in Instagram’s algorithm, which curates what people see on the app. Reels is a feature on the social media platform that allows users to share short videos, similar to TikTok. An Instagram forum on Reddit, the online discussion platform, contained posts from us
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Instagram may be considering spinning off its Reels feature into a standalone app. The company's head, Adam Mosseri, was reportedly overheard discussing the idea with employees as part of a broader strategy to better compete with TikTok, according to The Information. The report said the move is part of parent company Meta's internal initiative called Project Ray aimed at taking on the wildly popular TikTok. Project Ray also focuses on improving the algorithms behind content recommendations and
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In many ways, Reels is Instagram now. You can’t scroll on the photo-sharing app for a few seconds before being slapped across the face with algorithmic “suggested for you” video content. Meta, in all its wisdom, is reportedly considering breaking out Reels as its own TikTok-like app just in time to watch the short-form video app’s impending demise. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri reportedly told staff this week that the higher-ups were considering breaking off Reels into a separate app, accordin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 12:11:10
Instagram is reportedly considering spinning its Reels feature into a standalone short-form video app to take advantage of TikTok’s uncertain future in the US. Instagram head Adam Mosseri was overheard discussing the plans with staff this week according to an anonymous source cited by The Information. The Reels app is reportedly part of a Meta initiative code-named Project Ray which aims to help Instagram better compete against TikTok. Plans include improving how Instagram content is recommende
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 19:15:00
What just happened? Meta has admitted that an "error" caused Instagram users to see a slew of violent and pornographic content on their personal Reels page. The company has apologized for the mistake, which resulted in video clips filled with everything from school shootings and murders to rape being shown. Meta has apologized for the error and says it has now fixed the problem, though it never went into specifics. This issue caused "some users to see content in their Instagram Reels feed that
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Meta has admitted to CNBC that Instagram is experiencing an error that's flooding users' accounts with Reels videos that aren't typically surfaced by its algorithms. "We are fixing an error that caused some users to see content in their Instagram Reels feed that should not have been recommended," the company told news organization. "We apologize for the mistake." Users have taken to social media platforms to ask other people whether they've also recently been flooded with Reels that contain viol
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