After bombarding individuals’s feeds with undesirable content material, Instagram has realized its mistake. The social media platform is testing out methods for customers to have extra management over what pops up on their Explore web page and common feed by informing the app on what they don’t need to see.

Instagram is testing two new options, in addition to highlighting already present options that may higher form one’s timeline, the corporate announced on Tuesday. The first instrument lets customers mark a number of posts on their Explore web page as “Not Interested,” which mechanically removes the posts and refrains from displaying comparable ones sooner or later. The platform can be testing a instrument that lets customers cease seeing urged content material with sure phrases, phrases, emojis, captions, and hashtags that they’ve added to a listing on their account.

The firm additionally highlighted sure options already on the platform that assist customers see extra of what they like pop up on their screens. Those options embody the “favorites” instrument that allows you to add sure accounts to a listing that prioritizes their posts, or permits you to view a feed of coveted content material. There’s additionally the “Following” characteristic that lets customers solely view content material posted by accounts that they observe in a chronological order (ah, like the nice ol’days). The social media platform additionally has a characteristic to snooze urged posts, permitting customers to take a 30 day break from the undesirable content material.

Instagram has been altering up its feed in ways in which mimic its rival TikTok. But the modifications have prompted the platform’s customers to talk out about how a lot they hate the brand new Instagram. And you recognize issues had been actually dangerous when one of many most adopted individuals on Instagram, Kylie Jenner, pleaded to deliver the previous Instagram again. Jenner’s opinion on social media is somewhat vital, when she tweeted to complain about Snapchat’s new structure in 2018, the corporate went on to lose $1.3 billion.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri responded to the issues concerning the platform’s new feed saying that the corporate is experimenting with totally different modifications to the app. But he additionally clarified that whereas he loves the photographs on Instagram, he sees the way forward for the platform leaning extra in direction of video. So whereas Instagram will not be returning to its previous methods, it may be making an attempt to provide disgruntled customers extra methods to get a nostalgic glimpse into the way in which their feed was once arrange.