There are new ways to manage Likes on Instagram
A couple of years ago Instagram started testing to hide the likes of the application. In this way, users could not see the number of Likes that the photos of the rest had, although we could see those of our photos.
This test, which started in the US but later expanded to other countrieswas for users to focus on the content and not on generating as many Likespossible.And, although this was the intention, there were not a few voices that were raised against this measure, something completely logical being Instagram as it is.
Instead of hiding Likes or Likes, Instagram proposes three ways to manage them
Testing hiding Likes seemed like it would be permanently expanded and would be a "feature" that would stay, but now it looks like Instagram is testing different ways to show the Likes and users will be able to choose between them.
These ways to show the Likes or Likes are a total of 3. The first option, as you can imagine , is to not see the Likes or the Likes of the photos of any of the accounts that we follow or that we find on the social network.
Hidden Instagram Likes
The second option will allow us to choose not to show the number of Likes that our publications have for other users. And finally, we can choose to keep the original experience, seeing and showing all the Likes.
While it seems that Instagram is testing these options in many countries around the world, it is currently only available to a limited number of users. We can't know if it will expand it to more users and if this will be the definitive way to manage Likes, but it certainly seems like a better way than hiding them permanently for all users.
