Instagram is testing a new function that allows access to the latest ‘reels’ of the platform shared with friends, which will be collected in the direct messages section, at the top of the interface.
Currently it is possible to share by direct message both posts and ‘reels’, which are included in each user’s chat, so they can be lost if the conversation continues, since it keeps a chronological order Just like any other messaging app.
As the social network analyst has been able to verify Matt Navarrathe company is developing a feature that will make it easier to find a sent reel in case you want to watch it again or send it to someone else.
Navarra has advanced this feature based on a screenshot shared by Dijital Aglar, which show shared reels at the top of the inbox of messages and has the icon of each user to whom it has been sent in the lower left corner.
For its part, TechCrunch has advanced that if short videos are shared several times with several contacts, it will be shown only once, along with the avatar of the last person who received it.
Meta itself has confirmed to this medium that it is working on this option, although it has not gone into details about its operation, but has indicated that it is only “implementing improvements in the way in which you can search for and rediscover ‘reels’ previously shared on messages.