Embarrassing Instagram change shows your friends the videos you’ve liked as fans slam ‘worst feature update ever’

INSTAGRAM has brought successful a caller diagnostic that exposes the videos you've liked to your friends - and it could effect successful immoderate embarrassing interactions.

You whitethorn person noticed it already arsenic you scroll done Reels - tiny bubbles with your friends illustration pictures, adorned with a small bosom overlay successful the bottommost near manus corner.

These caller icons amusement which of your friends person liked the Reel you person stumbled upon.

It appears to lone see your friends - so, the radical you travel who travel you back, and not nationalist figures oregon random accounts.

The feature applies to Reels viewed successful the circumstantial Reels tab, and those recovered done the Explore page.

It is intended to boost engagement, promote radical to remark and stock Reels arsenic Instagram looks to capable the TikTok void with its rival present banned from US app stores.

In a caller Reel, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri, said: "We privation Instagram not to beryllium conscionable a spot wherever creatives stock their creativity, but 1 wherever radical link implicit that creativity - with friends, with shared interests.

"We're going to adhd immoderate friends to the Reels tab, truthful erstwhile you spell to the Reels tab you'll spot a fewer friends successful the apical right.

"If you pat connected that pill, you'll extremity up connected a dedicated provender of Reels that your friends person liked.

"And you tin seen which friends person really liked those Reels, and if you pat connected them you tin commencement a speech with them."

Instagram has made a fig of changes to its video offering successful caller weeks, arsenic it aims to support 'TikTok refugees' adjacent arsenic US president Donald Trump attempts to revive the app pursuing a short-lived ban.

Meta, which owns Instagram, is paying influencers thousands of dollars to station connected Reels earlier posting connected TikTok, Mashable reported.

The aforesaid time TikTok was banned, Instagram unveiled a caller video editing app called Edits, which resembles TikTok's editing app CapCuts.

But Instagram users are squeamish astir having their likes connected amusement for the satellite (their friends) to see, and person dubbed it the "worst diagnostic update ever".

"I don't privation my likes to beryllium blasted retired determination for each my friends to see," 1 Instagram idiosyncratic posted connected Reddit.

"I similar a batch of thirsty emotion and heavy abstraction reels lol. They're not acceptable for that.

"I can't ideate however panicked immoderate users are astir to beryllium with adjacent worse oregon thirstier likes astir to get blasted to each their followers."

Another added: "I conjecture I’ll conscionable halt liking reels present - which is the other of what IG wants but idgaf what my followers similar and I surely won’t “start a conversation” with them."

The caller diagnostic is simply a throwback to the days of the Activity feed, a long-gone tab that showed users what their followers were up to.

That included posts they liked, arsenic good arsenic accounts they followed.

"I mean there's ever been a hazard of seeing what idiosyncratic likes if they spot it, but this is conscionable going backwards to the crappy Activity provender days," a 3rd idiosyncratic posted.

Several users assertion they person already deactivated their accounts due to the fact that of the change.

While others accidental they volition conscionable marque caller 'burner' accounts to debar friends and household interacting with Reels they person liked.