Instagram is once again changing the update wall, the main section of the app where subscriber photos and videos appear. As expected, Instagram is now splitting the list between following (Following) and favorites (Favorites)– Users will be able to choose how they want to view the app. Of course: in any case, the content will appear chronologically, the most recent first.
Few apps have made users giddy as much as Instagram and everything about its main app section, the one that shows the content users are uploading. The company changed the way it presents this content based on a featured algorithm (in 2016), put its Reels, posted photos and videos of people we don’t follow and now… it splits the stream in two to make those who don’t exclusively move through stories more dizzy.
Favorites, Tracking and Chronological Order
The Instagram update wall changes again with a sort of filter that aims to organize the content in two different ways: by following and by favorites. The idea is that the user has more control over what appears in the app, at least in theory.
Splitting your Instagram feed will affect how videos and photos appear in the app. This filter will be characterized by the two mentioned sections:
- monitoring. Technically, it’s like the Instagram we’ve been using so far: photos and videos from accounts we’ve followed will appear. Instagram does not specify whether recommendations from other accounts will continue to appear, although the most logical thing is that it continues to happen.
- favorites. By switching to this filter in the Instagram feed, content from all accounts that we have manually highlighted as favorites will appear. Instagram confirms that with this option, content from accounts linked to favorites will appear, even if they are not followed.
The big news is that Instagram is permanently abandoning the recommended algorithm: With Following and Favorites, the content will be displayed in chronological order and the most recent first. Very good news for those who don’t want the algorithm to be the one selecting the content.
To choose between either way to represent the feed, click on the Instagram logo at the top of the screen. Once the new function is activated (an arrow will appear in said logo), the application will give you the choice between Follow and Favorites after pressing.
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