Reshape your Instagram with a Recommendations Reset
- When users want to start over, they are testing a feature that will allow users to reset the content recommendations they see in Explore, Reels, and Feed.
- This feature expands on existing capabilities that allow users to customise their suggestions.
- To provide more details on how to assist in ensuring that teens are exposed to content that is appropriate for their age, they are launching a new page on our Transparency Centre.
Our goal is to ensure that everyone using Instagram, particularly teenagers, has a positive, age-appropriate, safe experience and thinks that their time there is worthwhile. We want to provide teenagers new opportunities to customise their Instagram experience so that it continues to reflect their interests and passions as they change, while also offering built-in protections against sensitive content via Teen Accounts.
We have therefore begun testing the feature that allows users, especially teenagers, to change their suggestions on Instagram. You can start over and remove your suggested material from Explore, Reels, and Feed with a few touches.
Over time, your suggestions will begin to re-personalize, displaying fresh information according to the accounts and content you engage with. You can also choose to examine the accounts you follow and unfollow those that share stuff you no longer wish to see after you reset.
We’re thrilled to collaborate with The Home Edit’s Joanna and Clea, two organisation experts, to offer advice to parents on how they and their teenagers can arrange their Instagram accounts similarly to how they would arrange their homes. They should periodically assess what their teens are viewing to see if it still appeals to them and whether there is any other content they might like.
Ways to Shape your Instagram Experience
This new feature expands on the tools we currently provide to enable users to select what they see in their recommendations, and it will soon be available worldwide.
For instance, by pressing the three dots in the post’s corner and choosing “Interested,” users can let us know they enjoy the content that is suggested on their Explore page. We just revealed a new option for teenagers in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia to select subjects they would want to see more of, ranging from sports and cuisine to reading and travel. By choosing “Not interested” from the three-dot menu or by utilising our Hidden Words tool to conceal content that contains specific words, we also give users ways to let us know what they don’t want to see in their suggestions.
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