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Instagram adds in-app ‘Nudges’ to help young IG users?
This week head of IG, Adam Mosseri shared on his Instagram a range of updated features to help keep users, particularly teenagers safe while using Instagram. Several of the features are an extension of features that have been on the app for a while, for example the ‘Take a break’ feature that encourages users to set time-limits for Instagram has been rolled out to several new countries, but one new feature in the in-app ‘Nudges’.?
Mosseri describes the in-app nudges as a reminder, that whenever a user has spent too long of a period on one specific topic, to take a break and have a look at something else. The in-app notification will be launched this week and will send the user a pop-up reminder with some suggested posts they may be interested in.??
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Instagram adds new feature for profile display?
After several months of testing, Instagram has officially launched it’s latest feature ‘Pin to Your Profile’.? All users will now be able to select any of their posts, and using the three dots at the top of the post the user can select ‘Pin to your Profile’ which will then move the post to the top of the user's Instagram feed.??
Instagram said that the feature was to give creators “more flexibility to expresses themselves on their profiles”?
We tried out the feature for ourselves, check out how we decided to use the feature on our Wurkhouse Instagram.
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TikTok adds new tools to improve Digital Wellbeing?on app?
Instagram?wasn't the only social media platform that announced new ‘Digital well-being' features this week. TikTok introduced ‘Scheduled Breaks’ to prompt users to have breaks when scrolling through the app, these can be set up manually under the digital well-being section in the app.?
The problem with this function is that many young people won’t manually set up the function to take a break themselves, this is why TikTok has now introduced digital well-being prompts for users aged 13 – 17 that doesn’t require any set up. If the user stays within the app for more than 100 minutes in a single day, they will receive an automatic reminder of the screen time limit tool within the app. ?