Instagram Reintroducing Chronological Feed Option in 2022

[MacRumors]

Instagram is planning to reintroduce a version a chronological feed option in 2022, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said today in a Senate panel on teen safety (via Engadget).

"We're currently working on a version of a chronological feed that we hope to launch next year," Mosseri said, explaining that Instagram believes in giving people more control over how they view content.

Such a feature has apparently been in the works "for months" with Instagram targeting a launch in the first quarter of 2022.

When Instagram first launched, it provided a chronological feed that displayed the newest Instagram posts when you opened up the app, but in June 2016, Instagram swapped over to an algorithmic feed that displays posts based on relevancy.

Instagram has not had an option for a chronological feed for the past five years, so introducing an alternative to the algorithmic feed will be a major change. There have been multiple complaints about the Instagram feed over the years, and in 2018, the company did tweak the algorithm to make newer content show up more often.

Instagram has claimed that its algorithm is designed to surface the moments that people care about the most, highlighting posts based on interaction frequency and timeliness, but many Instagram users will likely be happy to have a chronological option.

Article Link: Instagram Reintroducing Chronological Feed Option in 2022

 

[mdlyen]

But will the setting stick or revert every time you open the app (like Facebook)?

 

[SnakeEater1993]

Wow! Christmas came earlier this year!

 

[waveman]

Will it also stop shovelling ads to our brains?

 

[WiseAJ]

Great now bring that back to Facebook

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Gives More Control to the viewers hopefully. They are respecting the privacy.

 

[TheSkywalker77]

Only if you subscribe to Intagram Pink launching alongside the feature in 2022!!

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Great now bring that back to Facebook

Do you mean META? Facebook no longer exists.

 

[WiseAJ]

Do you mean META? Facebook no longer exists.

Facebook the social media app still exists, Facebook the company is now META.

 

[adamjackson]

When social networks ditched chronological, that's when I deleted my accounts. Facebook in 2011, Twitter in 2013. If they didn't trust me to read stuff that's newest versus what the algorithm thinks I want to see, that means they decide what I see and when and they took that power away from users which does increase engagement because we all know users over-subscribe by over-liking / following more content than they can reasonably see but that was the last straw for me. at this point, I see no value in going back to these social networks after almost 10 years without them.

 

[jarman92]

Thank God. The IG algorithm is absolutely horrible...I'll see the same posts for like 4 days in a row.

 

[BWhaler]

So, easier to use while Facebook and Zuck spy on you?

classic.

 

[Return Zero]

"in the works for months"... This used to be the way the feed was. Why does this have to take a long time, as if it's a new feature?

 

[Berti10]

Too late. Plattform already in its Autumn.

 

[Bawstun]

Thank God. Switching to algorithms over a chronological feed was the single worst change Instagram has ever implemented.

 

[Premium1]

About time. Nothing worse than it throwing random pictures in your face that are from days or weeks ago instead of by the time they were posted. This was such a dumb move to go away from this in the first part.

 

[andrewxgx]

Will it also stop shovelling ads to our brains?

how do you keep platform free without them?
however the amount of if has gone up massively in 2021. same for youtube. gotta show the growth to the investors somehow, no?

 

[nikhsub1]

"We made the instagram feed really ****** for the past 5 years, but now we are going to introduce you to the way it used to be, you know, before we made it ****** 5 years ago."

 

[Will Tisdale 🎗]

Working on a “feature”, they say? To restore what they removed? Surely it’s about switching off the bs attention seekers first algorithm and sorting by time order. This shouldn’t require development time other than a switch to implement it.

Unfortunately time has moved on and Instagram was ruined by Facebook and is infested with zoomer narcissists now so I doubt this “feature” will entice me back.

 

[Will Tisdale 🎗]

Too late. Plattform already in its Autumn.

Yep, ruined by mismanagement.

 

[Will Tisdale 🎗]

"in the works for months"... This used to be the way the feed was. Why does this have to take a long time, as if it's a new feature?

Unwillingness, incompetence or both. Take your pick.

 

[Will Tisdale 🎗]

Do you mean META? Facebook no longer exists.

Meta what? 😉

 

[WiseAJ]

"We made the instagram feed really ****** for the past 5 years, but now we are going to introduce you to the way it used to be, you know, before we made it ****** 5 years ago."

"but it's going to take us a few months to figure out what we did and un**** the code"

 

[andrewxgx]

Yep, ruined by mismanagement.

exactly how facebook started dying btw. add more features, more options, more ads - and people are willing to try simpler stuff - like IG back in the day, or TT now.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Meta what? 😉

Meta… beta, feta, cheta, yeta…. Sounding like Eminem over here 😂