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

Instagram announcement Friday that it will now let you go back and watch reels you’ve previously watched thanks to a new “watch history” feature. Rival TikTok was one View history feature For several years now.

With the new feature, you can go back and find videos that you didn’t have a chance to save. For example, you might be watching an interesting reel and then get a phone call, or accidentally close the app while watching, or lose your place in the reels feed by getting distracted by something else.

“Have you ever tried to go back to a reel you saw on Instagram and you just can’t find it?”, said Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram. announcement. “Well, there’s a new feature that will help. If you go under ‘Profile’ and ‘Settings’ under ‘Your ‘Activity’, there’s now a watch history, so you can see every reel you’ve watched.

Like TikTok, you can sort your viewing history by date, past week or month, or a specific date range. Also, you can delete Reels from your viewing history if you want.

Instagram’s watch history offers a bit more flexibility than TikTok’s, as you can sort videos in chronological or reverse chronological order, or by author.

Instagram said the feature was highly requested among users. Earlier, users found solutions to recover lost videos, such as downloading their data from the app and experimenting with it to recover their viewing history. The feature makes the process of finding lost videos much easier and gets rid of the need for this kind of solution. Also, it brings the Instagram reel viewing experience on par with TikTok.

Since its launch as a TikTok clone, Meta has been building Instagram Reels with features already available on the popular short-form app. Recently, Instagram started allowing creators Connect multiple reels in a series and turned on support Picture-in-picture viewingBoth are already available on TikTok.