Instagram starts testing the ability to control who can see your likes،
Instagram plans to introduce a new privacy feature that will allow users to select who can see their likes on posts and Reels. The ability to control who can see your likes is intended to increase privacy and hopefully improve engagement.
A few screenshots captured from a beta version from Instagram confirm that the new feature will offer four different options for users to choose from. Judging by the screenshots, you'll only be able to choose one option from the four shown, unless Instagram decides to change things up the moment the new feature goes live for everyone.
However, the four options below offer enough variation to allow users to customize their privacy settings as they see fit:
- Allow everyone to see likes
- Allow people you follow to see likes
- Allow close friends to see likes
- Do not allow anyone to see likes
Instagram is constantly testing new features. Some never see the light of day, while others go through numerous iterations which, in some cases, change the way they originally worked. Obviously, it's hard to say when exactly the ability to control who sees your likes on posts and reels will come out, but at least we know that Instagram is working on a feature that will actually be useful to many of its users.
