Meta-owned social media platform Instagram lately introduced that it has greater than three billion month-to-month energetic customers, attributing the vast majority of its development to Reels and DMs.
Now, the social media platform is testing what may be one of many greatest adjustments to the app. In a put up on Threads, Instagram head Adam Mosseri mentioned that as a part of an opt-in take a look at in India, Meta is contemplating making Reels the default tab once you open the app.
Whereas Tales will stay on the high of the app, Instagram will present Reels as a substitute of posts. This implies once you scroll down from the house display screen, it is going to transition to the acquainted full-screen format.
Additionally, individuals who have opted in to the experiment will now have the ability to shortly entry DMs from the navigation bar. Instagram can also be introducing a brand new “Following” tab, which it says gives you a number of methods to see the “newest and best from the accounts you observe.”
The Meta owned social media platform added that it’ll quickly carry one other change to the navigation expertise, permitting customers to simply swipe between Reels, DMs and different tabs on the underside bar.
When Meta launched its devoted iPad app, customers seen it opened on to the Reels part by default. The corporate’s new restricted experiment seems to observe the identical method, aiming to make Reels extra interesting and interesting.
Final month, Instagram addressed a difficulty which decreased the attain of accounts who posted a number of tales in a single day and was noticed testing a brand new YouTube like picture-in-picture mode for Reels, permitting customers to observe quick type movies in a floating window.
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