IN RECENT years, Instagram has been adding new features to its platform that allows users more control over the design of their page.
Now, the company has launched a new feature that allows users to pin certain posts to the top of their profile.
Instagram has officially followed in the footsteps of Pinterest, Twitter, and TikTok and is now allowing users to keep their most popular posts at the forefront of their page.
Now users can pin up to three posts to the top of their pages, and it will look like they just recently posted them.
The posts can either be pictures or reels.
According to The Verge, the feature has been in the works since the beginning of the year and was first discovered by reverse-engineer Alessandro Paluzzi.
Instagram later ran a formal test in April before officially launching the feature in June.
When users click on one of their pictures, they will now be greeted with a message that reads, “Now you can now pin posts to your profile.”
In order to pin posts, users must follow a few simple steps including:
Unpinning photos involves the same three steps, but users will just select “unpin from profile” instead.
Shortly after the feature was announced, several users took to Twitter to express their opinions.
“being able to pin posts on Instagram profile is actually kinda cool,” one user wrote.
“I may have lost an hour this morning trying to decide what posts to pin…” another user added.
While some users were excited about the feature, others accused the social media app of copying other sites.
“You can pin posts to your Instagram profile… they want to be tiktok so bad,” a third user said.
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