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Instagram makes likes disappear and brings insights for reels and live

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Instagram now also brings its statistics function to the Tiktok clone Reels and the live streaming format. If you want, you can also completely hide the “I like” message in the future.

Let’s start with the new feature for everyone. It all began with the fact that Instagram no longer wanted to show on the posts how many people had a like and how many had left a comment.

Mental stress from fighting with numbers

The reasoning was understandable. Especially among adolescents and young adults, the prominent display of sheer numbers creates immense psychological pressure. Higher, faster, further is the motto.

In the long run, that would also damage those who cannot complain about the success – therefore belong to the much liked. After an initial storm of indignation, calm quickly returned.

Now Instagram works as before, only without the prominent figures. If you really wanted to, you could quickly restore the initial state with the Chrome extension “The Return of the Likes” anyway – at least in the desktop browser.

Can’t you see it anymore? Hide it! (Image: Instagram)

Like section can be completely hidden

Now Instagram is taking the next step and hiding the Like section completely – at least optionally. For your own posts you can now decide directly at the post whether you want to see the likes. If you decide against it, the heart icon does not disappear. Only the line “Like Hans-Werner and others” is hidden.

If you don’t want to see the likes of others anymore, you’ll find it the new area “Contributions” in the settings of the service. There you switch on “Hide likes and views”. From now on you can deal with what Instagram was actually created for – the pictures and videos.

That also works for the likes of the others (Image: Instagram)

Content creators get more insights

For the viewer, Instagram is a place where there are pictures, Videos and live streams to be seen there. The creators of this content, however, often do this not just for fun, but earn their living from it.

For this group of people, statistical information is about their own success Indispensable offer. Instagram is now launching its analysis tool Insights for the formats Reels and Live.

More information about the success of your reels. (Image: Instagram)

For reels, the tool shows new metrics such as plays, users reached, likes, comments, Show number of saves and shares. For the live format, there is an insight into the number of accounts reached, the peak value of simultaneous viewers, comments and shares. Instagram will also incorporate these metrics into account insights. This creates a more complete picture of how Reels and Live affect an account’s performance.

For the coming months, Instagram promises to expand its insights. Then longer periods of time should be evaluable and the insights should be accessible via the desktop.

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Sallie Anderson
Sallie Anderson
Sallie works as the Writer at World Weekly News. She likes to write about the latest trends going on in our world and share it with our readers.

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