Instagram offers to forget all the questionable content you’ve watched

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• Instagram is getting a recommendation reset tool.
• Once reset, the app will start fresh with recommendations for Explore, Reels, and your Feed.
• You can keep following the same accounts, or drop as many as you like.

How many times have you been browsing around Netflix or YouTube and spotted some intriguing content, but thought twice about clicking on it because you were worried how that interest might end up affecting your recommendations? From Spotify to TikTok, the media that these apps and services surface for us is picked by ever-learning, ever-watchful algorithms. And while they can sometimes seem like they know our tastes better than we do, have you ever wished you could get a fresh start? Luckily for you, Instagram is stepping up with with a new tool that offers what amounts to a big recommendation reset button.

Meta shares news of Instagram’s new recommendation reset option in the context of keeping teens safe and giving them tools to better control their IG experience, but this is one feature that’s absolutely going to find broader appeal. Anyone who’s watched one too many woodworking videos out of curiosity and now finds their recommendations drowning in a sea of dovetail and dado demos knows exactly what we’re talking about.




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