TechSoftwareAppsThis great free Instagram upgrade will bring you closer to your friendsInstagram’s really useful Close Friends feature is now available for your posts and reelsWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechSoftwareAppsThis great free Instagram upgrade will bring you closer to your friendsInstagram’s really useful Close Friends feature is now available for your posts and reelsWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Instagram’s really useful Close Friends feature is now available for your posts and reels
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Getty)
(Image credit: Getty)
Instagram has just added an update that helps solve one of the most common problems with social networks: they’re flat. In real life we tend to have different friend and contact groups for different parts of our lives – work colleagues, school friends, close friends and so on – but many social networks just mash them all together and share your stuff to everyone. Instagram’s Close Friends feature changes that.
Close Friends isn’t a new feature, but until now it’s been limited to your Stories and Notes: it enables you to limit those things to small groups of people that you define as close friends. Now, though, the feature has been rolled out to your main feed, so you can apply it to your posts and to your reels too. This is a really welcome improvement.
What is Instagram Close Friends for?
Using the feature in the Instagram app is really simple. When you’re creating your new post or reel, tap on Audience > Close Friends > Share. This will limit the audience to your Close Friends group, and they’ll know they’re special because your post or reel will appear with a little green star on it.
For now, Close Friends is global: you can’t have different groups for different kinds of content, such as having one group for your reels, one for your stories and another for your posts. But that might be coming: Instagram boss Adam Mosseri has previously said that his team was trying ways for ever more nuanced, controllable sharing
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