Instagram announced that its function of hiding the count of the likes of the publications, which was already seen in a limited way in some users, becomes available to all who wish to activate it, something that those of the social network Facebook can also do .

This function aims to reduce social pressure when using Instagram, and is a feature that has been tested since 2019 and, in April of this year, the social network announced that it would give the option for users to decide whether they wanted to see or not. this information.

Now, the function of hiding the count of likes in publications becomes available to Instagram users from this Wednesday, as reported in a statement.

The new function gives the possibility for its users to hide the number of likes of all the contents of their ‘feed’, or also to publicly hide the counter of their own publications from others. However, they can keep it according to their preferences.

Instagram users who wish to can hide the Like count from this Wednesday from the social network configuration section so that it applies to all content, but they can also do it publication by publication, before publishing content or also after.

In the coming weeks, Facebook users will be able to see these controls to hide the likes counter, as the company has also confirmed.

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The social network Instagram has begun to test a function that allows users to choose whether to hide the information from the counter of “likes” of the publications, a feature that will also be tested on Facebook later.

Since 2019, although only in the testing phase, Instagram stopped automatically showing the post’s likes counter for some users, so that people can focus more on content and less on popularity.

Now, Instagram has begun to give a small percentage of its users on a global scale, also as a test, the possibility to choose between three options on how they see likes on the platform, as the company has confirmed to TechCrunch.

The first one hides all Instagram like counters, while the second only removes them from the user’s own posts. The third keeps the information intact and continues to report the likes.

This configuration can be established both from the settings menu of the social network and in each publication separately, through the three-point button on the posts.

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