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Instagram Tests Feature To Highlight Missed Content From Friends
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Updated on Dec 24, 2024
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Instagram is experimenting with a new feature designed to help users catch up on content from friends that might have gone unnoticed.
In a Rush? Here are the Quick Facts!
- Unseen Story Highlights appear after finishing all current Stories in the tray.
- The test targets curated Highlights, not standard Stories that vanish after 24 hours.
- Only unseen Highlights from the past week will be displayed to users.
As first reported by TechCrunch, the social media platform is testing a feature that displays unseen Story Highlights from mutual followers at the end of the Stories tray, located at the top of the feed.
“We’re always working on new ways to help people connect in Stories and are testing bringing recent Highlights to the end of the tray with a small group of people,” a Meta spokesperson told TechCrunch.
Social media expert Ahmed Ghanem was the first to identify the feature in testing.
#Instagram is testing a new Highlights Story feature that displays highlights from profiles you follow as Stories. It seems to work as a way to catch up if you missed the original content
🔗 Follow my WhatsApp Channel for more updates: https://t.co/0JyLtIkvM8 pic.twitter.com/1TXbB4G4ub— Ahmed Ghanem (@ahmedghanem) December 17, 2024
TechCrunch noted that the addition comes as Instagram faces criticism for being cluttered with Reels and sponsored posts, which can overshadow updates from friends and family. By surfacing Story Highlights—curated Stories users have saved to their profiles—the platform aims to ensure original content is not missed.
Meta clarified to TechCrunch that the feature allows users to view unseen Story Highlights from the past week. However, these Highlights will only appear once a user has viewed all the current Stories in their tray. For users who follow a large number of accounts and rarely finish their Stories queue, these Highlights may remain unseen.
Unlike standard Stories, which disappear after 24 hours, the test focuses solely on Highlights, offering a new way to revisit stories that users choose to preserve on their profiles.
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