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New Instagram Feature Refreshes Your Feed From Scratch

Evelyn Blake
Last updated: 10 February 2025 04:02
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Meta, the parent company of Instagram, is making its first ground-breaking feature available that allows users to reset their suggestions made on Feeds, Explore, and Reels. This new tool for Instagram users of any age, but particularly teens, is meant to give users more control over the Instagram experience.

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Easy Steps to a Fresh FeedEnsuring a Safe Space for TeensTools to Shape Your Instagram ExperienceTransparency for Parents and TeensEnd Note

In the coming weeks, via the ‘Recommendations Reset’ tool, as Meta puts it, the world will get the chance to remove any recommendations they do not like. Users simply need to tap the single button to clear out the algorithmic content that is currently being tailored towards each profile, so to speak, essentially giving them a new start-up. In addition, this reset option prompts users to revisit the accounts that they follow to unfollow profiles that don’t fit their interests anymore.

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Easy Steps to a Fresh Feed

Recreating Instagram’s recommendations is a gradual process, says Meta. Users simply have to clear out existing suggestions, and then let the algorithm recalibrate based on new messages. After a reset, Instagram will once again begin to make recommendations based on the user’s current preferences.

Coinciding with this new move has been Meta’s partnership with organization experts Joanna and Clea, from The Home Edit, as the voice of the brand. Together, they share some tips for teens and parents on building Instagram content. The approach mimics home organization: evaluating periodically whether what still suits you remains and making room for better choices.

Ensuring a Safe Space for Teens

Meta has set out to intentionally organize a positive and appropriate Instagram for teens. Their exposure to sensitive or mature content is limited by built-in protections. Meta disables recommendations on such content, and sometimes completely hides it from teen users even if it is being shared by accounts the teens follow.

It even includes providing teens with tools such as the Following Feed for viewing feeds in chronological order, and the Favorites list for managing their favorite accounts. This gives users a space in the digital world they can build up endlessly pursuing their evolving passions.

Tools to Shape Your Instagram Experience

There are already a number of ways Instagram provides tools to enable users to take control of their digital environment. These include:

  • To like content from the Explore page, use the “Interested” option.
  • The ’not interested’ tool to hide unwanted recommendations.
  • Filtering posts with certain phrases via The Hidden Words feature

Meta has added features to encourage teens, such as chronological feeds, a Favorites list and stronger privacy controls for Stories. This tool guarantees users can make meaningful partnerships with the sites they use the most, creating personalized feed topics that are dynamic as the user continues to discover and engage.

Transparency for Parents and Teens

Meta has also announced a new page on its Transparency Center, while also introducing the reset tool. This resource details the ways Instagram filters sensitive content and keeps teens viewing age-appropriate material. It outlines Meta’s layers of protection around harmful posts and reducing exposure to sensitive content.

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Meta has cleaned up the goal of a safe, engaging, social platform for users where they have spent time well spent. Making sure Instagram reflects what matters most for users, the evolution of the new Recommendations Reset feature is a slingshot.

End Note

Meta’s push for user experience means that Instagram’s Recommendations Reset tool is a strong way to regain control of your feed. This feature offers a simple and easy way to personalize your Instagram journey, be it because you are interested in increasing the alignment of your content with new interests or simply due to wanting a fresh start.

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Evelyn Blake is an investor in technology and journalist who has been in the nascent space since 2014. Her love and passion for technological innovations made her delve deeper into the world of technology evolution. As a journalist, Evelyn has been covering latest trends and emerging gadgetries. She is a philanthropist and human rights activist.

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