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Instagram Tests Reverse-Chronological 'Latest Posts' Feature

Instagram Tests Reverse-Chronological 'Latest Posts' Feature

4 years ago
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https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/346503

You'll likely never see the reverse-chronological feed return to Instagram, but the Facebook-owned social network might soon offer something very close to it. Software engineer Jane Manchun Wong discovered a hidden feature within the Instagram app that dedicates a special area to missed posts and organizes them in time-based order.

Known as 'Latest Posts' internally, the feature describes itself as a method to "get caught up on" what friends uploaded recently. It surfaces as a pop-up while a user looks at the main feed. Select the 'See Posts' button, and Instagram will open the special area that relies on reverse-chronological order rather than an algorithm to display posts. Latest Posts should focus on posts that either haven't been seen or, at the very least, liked yet.