How to hide likes on Instagram? Here's a guide

Following same path that led Instagram to successfully hide likes for certain users back in 2019, social media platform is now experimenting with enabling more ditions to this feature. This time, Instagram is set to explore a new option that lets users decide what works best for m. This means that users now have option to enable or disable like counts on irs and ors' posts. ditionally, Instagram CEO am Mosseri announced on Twitter that y're working on something similar to bring to Facebook as well.

How to hide likes on Instagram?

Earlier, Instagram h collected user feedback on disabling Instagram likes feature and h expressed ir surprise at how positively it was received. company has since n expressed its interest in elevating this experience and bringing more changes to feature. However, plan h to be cut short with pandemic setting in as platform n shifted its focus on spreing COVID-19 awareness via new features inste. Today, Instagram is back to testing its hide likes feature and has revealed that it will be enabled for a small percentage of users globally soon.

According to Later, as of this week, only users in Cana, Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Italy, Japan, and New Zealand and selected test groups in US will have access to hide likes on Instagram feature. If a user has been selected for test, y will get a notification on top of ir feed that will inform m about same. As for how to hide likes on Instagram, user will simply have to visit in-app Settings tab where y'll be able to see new option. All y have to do is accept it to enable  change.

Henceforth, Instagram users will not be able to see Instagram likes count on any account. As a creator, while y can see ir own engagement and like counts through analytics, y will be able to hide likes on a per-post basis if y want. Since this feature saw two contrasting responses, with one set of crowd being in support of it while or seeing no problem having Instagram like count, platform has announced that at end of day, ball is in users' court and that it's up to m to enable or disable this feature.

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