Instagram's New Instants Feature Is Annoying. Here's How to Turn It Off
Instagram has a new feature that may already be sitting in your inbox, because apparently your DMs weren't busy enough.
The feature is called Instants, and it lets users send quick, disappearing photos to close friends or mutual followers through Instagram's DM inbox (which recently ended encrypted messaging). The photos are meant to be casual and unedited, more like Snapchat or BeReal than a polished Instagram post. The photos disappear after they're opened and can't be viewed after 24 hours.
You can use Instants inside Instagram or through a separate Instants app that opens directly to the camera.
That may sound useful if you want Instagram to become even more of a private photo-sharing app. But if your inbox already feels like a place where there's already too much going on, Instants can feel like one more thing wedged into an already crowded app.
The feature is the...
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