Instagram has launch a new Playback feature for users, which offer a recap of the best Stories they posted in 2021. The Instagram offer to show users their top 10 Stories of the year. Instagram does suggest a set of Stories, users have the option to remove and select others before sharing their 2021 Playback video.
The feature is now available to all users and will only be available for the coming weeks.
Instagram has begun showing a banner at the top of users’ Instagram feeds with a button which allows users to curate stories from their Stories archive.
These older Stories will then be compile into their 2021 Playback.
Users can remove Stories which are automatically select, in case they bring back unwant memories.
These can be replace with any other Story from 2021, which will be adds to their playback list.
Instagram’s new Playback feature could come in handy as a way to recap the year, especially for small businesses or groups.
Users will also be able to create their own year-in-review videos to ecap their top Stories for the year.
Instagram has not announce any feature relate to sharing top posts of 2021, and the current feature only supports stories from a user’s archive.
Instagram’s new Playback feature has begun rolling out to all users, but it will remain a time-limit feature, as per a report.
This means users will have a limit amount of time (presumably a short while after the new year arrives) to try the Playback feature before it is retire.
Instagram is also working on bringing back a version of the company’s original chronological feed, which was remove in 2016.
Instagram offers an algorithmically sort feed, like Facebook and Twitter.
Unlike the others, Instagram is yet to roll out the ability to view posts in chronological order.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri revealed during a US Congress hearing that the company was also working on giving more control to users on the platform, as per Reuters.
Instagram recently began asking users to record video selfies of themselves which will help the company confirm if they are human.
This service has also share new details of new measures it is taking to protect users from harassment on the platform.
Instagram is also rolling out better parental controls and “Want a break?” reminders for children in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US.
Instagram will also stop users from tagging or mentioning teens that don’t follow them, and “nudge” teens to different topics if they spend too much time on a specific topic, as per Instagram.
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