Earlier immediately the US Supreme Court docket upheld the legislation that may ban TikTok within the US until it sells by January 19. With the deadline quick approaching and no deal in sight, the app has promised to completely shut down on Sunday within the US although the legislation does not truly compel it to (it solely requires Google and Apple to take away TikTok from their app shops).
TikTok’s opponents are clearly very pleased about that app’s doable demise within the US, and so immediately Instagram introduced two new options for Reels, its TikTok clone.
Now you can uncover the reels your mates are liking or including notes to on the high proper nook of the Reels tab. And you may additionally see a reply bar, to make it simple to “begin conversations round content material you are having fun with”, Instagram says. This will provide you with “much more alternatives on your reels to be seen by individuals who do not comply with you but”.
You possibly can see how this works within the screenshots above. On any given reel, the highest proper half will present who amongst your mates interacted with that individual reel. And you may then reply to their exercise – so if a good friend likes a reel, you’ll be able to reply to that like.
By no means shockingly, these options are rolling out within the US first, and can make it to different locations in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.
