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Instagram’s Chronological Feed is Finally Back

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Instagram Posts Cryptic Tweet Teasing the Chronological Feed’s Return

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Instagram May Let Users Manually Rearrange Photos On Their Profile

Instagram is reportedly working on a feature that would allow users to customize the order in which photos appear on their profile pages. The grid customization feature was recently discovered through an analysis of the app's code.

The feature was discovered by app developer and reverse engineer specialist Alessandro Paluzzi who has discovered many other features in the app in the past, including paid subscriptions and the ability to upload photos from a desktop browser.

In his latest discovery, Paluzzi found a new option in the Profile Information page called "Edit Grid." Through it, he discovered the ability to move photos in a profile around in a "drag and drop" format that allowed him to rearrange photos in any way he chose, freeing the profile page from showing photos and videos strictly in sequential order from most recent to oldest.

#Instagram is working on the ability to edit the profile grid allowing you to rearrange posts in any order you like 👀 pic.twitter.com/fjmkJD4je2

-- Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) January 10, 2022

The feature could greatly benefit photographers who want new visitors to see their best work first, which might not be what they shared most recently. While exciting, not all of the features Paluzzi discovers in the code become features that roll out to the general public and some do not even make it into the beta testing phase. Seeing the feature where it is now is not necessarily an indication it will be coming soon, if at all.

Engadget notes that it would not be particularly surprising to see it become a mainstay, however, as Instagram has spent a large amount of effort working with shops and businesses and a customizable home page would be a big feature they could use to better market products. Instagram has said that it plans to focus on shopping and video in 2022, so adjustments like a customizable profile page fit nicely into those goals.

Instagram has been making a lot of changes to its app in recent months including the ability to prevent websites from embedding images and efforts to bring back the chronological feed. Other adjustments have been more designed to combat the perception that the company is putting young users at risk (such as enhanced safety features and parental controls) and the fact that 60% of internet users don't trust the company.

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Instagram Explains How the Return of the Chronological Feed Will Work

Instagram has announced that it has started to test the ability to switch between three different views on the app's home screen, two of which would give users the ability to see posts in chronological order.

The Algorithmic-Driven Feed

Instagram notably killed off the chronological feed in its app several years ago, citing that it found that users were missing 70% of all the posts in their feeds, including almost half of posts from their close connections. In a blog post from last June, Instagram's head Adam Mosseri wrote that as more people joined the app between 2010 and 2016, it became "impossible" for most people to see everything, let alone the content they cared about.

But faced with mounting pressure from the public and the United States government, Mosseri said that it supported the idea of giving users the option to have a chronological feed when he spoke at a Senate hearing last December.

“We’re currently working on a version of a chronological feed that we hope to launch next year,” Mosseri said, adding that the company has been working on it “for months” and that it could be expected in the first quarter of 2022.

How the New Instagram Home Screen Will Work

Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, published a short minute-long video where he explains in more detail what the new home screen options will look like and which allow for the return of the chronological feed.

Testing Feed Changes 👀

We’re starting to test the ability to switch between three different views on your home screen (two of which would give you the option to see posts in chronological order):

• Home
• Favorites
• Following

We hope to launch these soon. More to come. ✌🏼 pic.twitter.com/9zvB85aPSp

-- Adam Mosseri (@mosseri) January 5, 2022

Mosseri says that in the future, Instagram will have three different feeds that can be shown on the home screen. The first will be called "Home," and will be the place to continue to have the Instagram experience that is found in today's version of the app.

The second feed is what Mosseri says Instagram's team hopes to call "Favorites," and is a subset or list of accounts that would contain the content a user would want to be sure they did not miss.

"I use it for siblings, a few of my favorite creators, and a few of my best friends," Mosseri explains.

The last is called "Following," and will be a chronological list of posts just from accounts that a user follows. "Home" will have more recommendations over time, but those will be absent from the "Following" screen.

"We think it is important that you can get to a chronological feed, if you're interested, quickly and see the latest that has been posted by the accounts that you follow."

Testing Now with Full Rollout Planned This Year

Mosseri says that Instagram has begun testing the three new options and are either already being actively tested or will be going out over the next couple of weeks, but was not specific on when the feature would roll out to all users beyond the "first half of this year" that was already cited in his promise to the Senate last December.

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‘A Version’ of the Chronological Feed is Coming Back to Instagram

Instagram famously ditched the chronological version of the feed in its app years ago and substituted an algorithmic-based one. But as pressure mounts on the company to make its app safer for young people, it is apparently bringing it back.

Speaking to lawmakers in a Senate hearing on Instgram and the safety of teens, Instagram's head Adam Mosseri said that he supports the idea of giving users the option to have a chronological feed.

“We're currently working on a version of a chronological feed that we hope to launch next year,” Mosseri said, adding that the company has been working on it "for months" and that it could be expected in the first quarter of 2022.

Mosseri did not provide further details, nor did he describe what "a version" of the chronological feed meant and how it would be different from what existed in the past.

As noted by Engadget, adding the chronological feed back into Instagram would be a major reversal of policy. In a blog post from June, Mosseri explained that the algorithm was added because he claimed users were missing large chunks of their feeds.

"When we first launched in 2010, Instagram was a single stream of photos in chronological order. But as more people joined and more was shared, it became impossible for most people to see everything, let alone all the posts they cared about," Mosseri wrote.

"By 2016, people were missing 70% of all their posts in Feed, including almost half of posts from their close connections. So we developed and introduced a Feed that ranked posts based on what you care about most."

This has not necessarily been the case for some users, as the algorithm can sometimes learn to completely filter out some users from a feed and never show them to a follower. Additionally, the algorithmic-based feed likely made it much more profitable for Instagram and its advertisers.

Mosseri and Instagram have been extremely active lately in response to mounting pressure and outcry regarding Instagram's effect on young people. What started with a bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal has cascaded into investigations and public cries for oversight. Ahead of Mosseri's hearing, Instagram hastily pushed the "take a break" feature (which is significantly weaker than originally pitched) and promised that additional safety features and parental controls would be coming in 2022.

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Instagram to Allow 60-Minute Videos in Main Feeds, Rebrands IGTV

Facebook is merging the long-form video format of IGTV with regular videos in feeds and increasing how long they are allowed to be to 60-minutes. IGTV will be rebranded Instagram TV as the main app focuses on a more seamless video experience.

Today the company announced that it would be getting rid of the exclusive IGTV video format and that videos posted in the main Instagram feed can run up to 60-minutes long, the old length of IGTV videos. Additionally, viewers won't have to leave the main app in order to watch these videos. That said, IGTV isn't going away -- at least not yet -- as it's just being rebranded and will remain a standalone, separate app experience called Instagram TV.

The move is one that is likely long overdue. IGTV, Instagram's first foray into longer-form video content that was introduced in 2018, has been largely viewed as a flop. As The Verge points out, two months after Instagram brought IGTV to its app, TikTok launched in the United States. Three years later, and it's one of the most popular social networks and Instagram has been scrambling to adjust its platform to better compete.

The shift from the IGTV format to a more integrated video experience is therefore likely driven by a desire to keep TikTok from growing and further eating into its user base. But taking on TikTok might mean changing the core experience of Instagram, which is likely why the company admitted that it was no longer a photo-sharing app earlier this year. Engadget writes that the switch to a more seamless video experience might encourage creators to share more videos on Instagram and as a result, help it compete better.

Instagram has never had to be first at any of its features since it was acquired by Facebook and has been pretty successful in migrating features from competitors to its platform and winning in the space. Instagram successfully took the Stories concept from Snapchat and integrated it into its app experience, which largely relegated Snapchat to niche appeal -- at least compared to Instagram's gigantic user base. However, TikTok might be the first to buck that trend. Instagram's hard pivot to video after supporting photography for years likely feels like a natural evolution for a company that has thrived on taking the ideas of others and squishing them into its experience. While photographers might not like it, there are few reasons to believe it won't work again.

Image credits: Header photo licensed via Depositphotos.

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Instagram Testing ‘Favorites List’ That Prioritizes What Appears in Feeds

A new report shows that Instagram is working on a new Favorites feature that will make it possible to tell the app what content it should prioritize.

Mobile developer Alessandro Paluzzi discovered that Instagram is currently testing a feature that would allow users to set priorities in a Favorites List that would surface content from certain people above others.

According to screenshots obtained by Paluzzi, the feature won't necessarily always show all favorite accounts first, but it will prioritize them over others. It works by letting you search for and add accounts to a Favorites list that the Instagram screenshot says will appear "higher in a feed so you don't miss out." Only the specific user can see who is on their Favorites list and no one is notified when they are added or removed from a Favorites list.

#Instagram is working on "Favorites" 👀

ℹ️ Posts from your favorites are shown higher in feed. pic.twitter.com/NfBd8v4IHR

-- Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) September 9, 2021

While Instagram currently lets users control who can share stories through its Close Friends feature, that option does not allow users to control the order or priority that posts have in feeds.

Instagram confirmed to The Verge that the test revealed by Paluzzi is true, but it is “is an internal prototype that’s still in development, and not testing externally.”

As noted by The Verge , this is not the first time Instagram has tested such a feature. In 2017, the company tested a Favorites feature that would let users limit the exact audience for a type of post.

Currently, Instagram's feed is controlled by a set of algorithms that rank the order of the content in a feed by the most recent and shared posts by those who users follow along with a set of other factors like engagement. Instagram's head Adam Mosseri recently shared more information about Instagram's algorithms in a detailed blog post published last June.

“We want to make the most of your time, and we believe that using technology to personalize your experience is the best way to do that,” Mosseri says. “Each part of the app – Feed, Explore, Reels – uses its own algorithm tailored to how people use it. People tend to look for their closest friends in Stories, but they want to discover something entirely new in Explore. We rank things differently in different parts of the app, based on how people use them.”

Should Instagram roll out the Favorites List to users, it would add another wrinkle to how the company determines what to show its users.

Image credits: Header photo licensed via Depositphotos.

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