Instagram’s latest feature lets you go back see your watched Reels

Instagram announced connected Friday that it volition present fto you spell backmost and spot your antecedently watched Reels acknowledgment to a caller “Watch History” feature. Rival TikTok has had a Watch History feature for a fewer years now.

With the caller feature, you tin spell backmost and find videos you mightiness not person had the accidental to save. For example, you could beryllium watching an absorbing Reel and past person a telephone call, oregon accidentally adjacent the app portion watching, oregon get distracted by thing other and suffer your spot successful the Reels feed.

“Have you ever tried to get backmost to a reel that you’d seen connected Instagram and you conscionable can’t find it?,” Instagram caput Adam Mosseri said successful an announcement. “Well, determination is simply a caller diagnostic that should help. If you spell to ‘Profile’ and nether ‘Settings,’ nether ‘Your ‘Activity,’ there’s Watch History now, truthful you tin spot each reel that you’ve ever watched.”

Just similar connected TikTok, you tin benignant your Watch History by date, the past week oregon month, oregon a circumstantial day range. Plus, you tin region Reels from your ticker past if you’d similar to.

Instagram’s Watch History offers a spot much flexibility erstwhile compared to TikTok’s, arsenic you tin benignant videos successful chronological oregon reverse chronological order, oregon by author.

Instagram says the diagnostic was highly requested among users. Before this, users had recovered workarounds to retrieve mislaid videos, specified arsenic downloading their information from the app and sifting done it to retrieve their ticker history. The diagnostic makes the process of uncovering mislaid videos a batch simpler and gets escaped of the request for these sorts of workarounds. Plus, it brings the Instagram Reels viewing acquisition connected par with TikTok’s.

Since its motorboat arsenic a TikTok clone, Meta has been gathering retired Instagram Reels with features that are already disposable connected the fashionable short-form app. Most recently, Instagram started allowing creators to connect aggregate reels successful a series and launched enactment for Picture-in-Picture viewing, some of which are already disposable connected TikTok.