Instagram has introduced new ways for its users, especially teens, to manage their time and experiences on Instagram, including a 'Quiet Mode' in Australia.
Quiet Mode encourages people to set healthy boundaries with their friends and followers, letting them know when they’re unavailable for a certain period, like at night time.
When someone enables Quiet Mode, they will see an “in quiet mode” status on their profile, and Quiet Mode will mute notifications and send an auto-reply in response to DMs from friends and followers.
Instagram: “Teens tell us they feel like they need to be available a lot of the time, so we will proactively prompt teens to turn on Quiet Mode when they spend a certain amount of time on Instagram at night.”
The social media platform has also introduced a feature to hide multiple pieces of content in “Explore” at once, right from the Explore page, without needing to click into each post individually.
Further updates to the Hidden Words tool — which previously protected people from seeing scam DM requests and comments— will now see users able to hide recommended posts with certain words, emojis, or hashtags in the caption.
Parental controls have been refreshed so that parents will now be able to view their teen’s Instagram account settings, including privacy and content defaults and controls. They will also receive a notification if their teen updates a setting or any accounts their teen has chosen to block, to help parents and teens chat about these changes together about these changes.
Instagram: “These new features reflect our ongoing work to build things that are meaningful for young people, and that are really helpful and useful for creators. These new features complement our existing tools that already help people manage their time and the content they see on Instagram.
“These include Take a Break, which helps remind people to take some time away from scrolling, Sensitive Content Controls that let users decide how much sensitive content they’d like to see presented in their feed, and nudges that encourage teens to switch to a different topic if they’re repeatedly looking at the same type of content on Explore.”
‘Quiet mode’ is now available to everyone in Australia and New Zealand, the US, United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada.
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