Instagram will finally allow you to download Reels

The Reels will benefit from a nice boost on instagramsince they will now leave the application thanks to a download option.

In recent years, Instagram has often chased after innovations from TikTok, the current leader in social networks. After being inspired by his videos scrolling vertically through his Reels, the application of the Meta group will also allow you to download the videos.

Reels go through the phone

Instagram, which is almost fifteen years old, has been able to stay up to date by following the fashions of the moment. This trend is still expressed today with an important change which has just been announced and which relates to the Reels, the videos of the network.

Boss Adam Mosseri has just communicated on the rollout of a new “download” option added to the menu, which appears at the bottom of the video when someone wants to share the Reel. This function, specifies the leader of the social network, is only permitted on public accounts. Private accounts are protected.

First steps in the United States

In addition, if you have a public account and post Reels there, you will also have the possibility in the settings to prevent these downloads. With this addition, Instagram will allow videos posted on its channels to be shared on other social networks, obviously like what is already possible with TikTok, with the aim of helping to improve their virality. These productions will appear elsewhere with the watermark “Instagram” and the name of the account from which they come.

Unfortunately, if you are happy with this news and are already looking for the first Reels to archive in your phone, it should also be noted that this option is currently only available on the American market. But there is no doubt that this is only a first step, and that the downloading of Reels should then quickly arrive on the Old Continent, and therefore in France!

Source : Engadget