Instagram Reels video size has been elevated to 60 seconds, the corporate has introduced. Before this, customers may select between 15-second and 30-second video size limits, however now a brand new barely longer time length has additionally been made accessible. In addition, Instagram can also be bringing new protections for teenage customers by defaulting them into personal accounts and making it more durable for doubtlessly suspicious accounts to search out younger folks on the platform. It can even ship push notifications to present teenage customers, urging them to make their accounts personal.

The social media platform took to Twitter to announce the growth of video size for Reels. Moving ahead, Instagram customers will be capable of make as much as 60-second Reels. TikTok, the Reels arch-rival, not too long ago expanded its restrict to three minutes to supply its creators the choice to make barely longer and versatile content material with out dropping the fast-flipping nature of the platform.

Furthermore, Instagram has additionally introduced that it’s introducing new safety measures to make youngsters’ social media expertise safer. It is defaulting new joinees below the age of 16 (18 in some nations) into personal accounts. A non-public account lets solely individuals who observe you see posts, Stories, and Reels. Random customers cannot even touch upon their content material and posted content material can’t be seen in sections like Explore and hashtag.

For younger individuals who have already got a public account on Instagram, it can present them a notification highlighting the advantages of a personal account and explaining how one can change their privateness settings. “We’ll still give young people the choice to switch to a public account or keep their current account public if they wish,” the corporate says in a blog.

All of those adjustments make it more durable for doubtlessly suspicious accounts to search out younger folks and limits the choices for advertisers to focus on younger folks.