After greater than 5 years, Instagram plans to carry again “a version” of its chronological feed subsequent 12 months, the corporate’s high govt stated on Wednesday. Speaking to lawmakers at a Senate listening to on Instagram and teenage security, Mosseri stated that he helps “giving people the option to have a chronological feed.”

“We’re currently working on a version of a chronological feed that we hope to launch next year,” Mosseri stated, including that the corporate has been engaged on the function “for months.”He didn’t share further particulars about how such a feed would work, however stated that the corporate is “targeting the first quarter of next year” for a launch.

Launching an choice for a chronological feed can be a serious reversal for the picture sharing app, which has constantly defended its algorithmic feed regardless of persistent complaints and conspiracy theories from customers about how their posts are ranked. In in June, Mosseri wrote {that a} chronological feed made it “impossible for most people to see everything, let alone all the posts they cared about.” He stated the chronological feed resulted in folks “missing” a majority of the posts of their feed in 2016.

Since then, Instagram has confronted much more scrutiny over how its algorithms rank and recommend content material, significantly for youngsters and youthful customers. Congress has additionally been debating laws to rein in social media platforms’ rating methods, together with a proposed invoice that might regulate .

Elsewhere, Instagram is at present testing one other change to feed: the addition of from accounts you don’t comply with into the primary feed. Developer and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi additionally recently spotted a function that might permit customers to kind their feeds by “home,” “favorites” or “following,” although it’s not clear if any of these check with a chronological feed. We’ve reached out to Instagram for extra info and can replace if we hear again.