Published 19:38 IST, October 17th 2024
Instagram will no longer let users screenshot images, videos sent in DMs
Instagram has rolled out a new feature that will prevent users from capturing a screenshot of images and videos, including View Once posts, shared in DMs.
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Instagram update: Meta-owned photo and video sharing app, Instagram, has announced a new feature that will prevent users from capturing a screenshot or screen record ephemeral images or videos sent in private messages. This means that users will no longer be able to capture a screenshot or a screen recording of an image or a video shared in Instagram DMs. company also announced that it will also prevent users from opening ‘View Once’ or ‘Allow Replay’ images and videos pm Instagram web.
It is worth noting that as of now, Instagram users can save a screenshot or a screen recording of images and videos shared in DMs, including View Once posts. However, platform sends a notification to sender informing m that ir post has been saved. But when this feature rolls out, users will no longer be able to capture a copy of image or video shared in a DM.
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Instagram's gets new features for tackling sextortion scams
This feature is among host of or features that company announced today in a bid to protect its teenage users from sextortion scams on platform. company also announced that it has started testing new safety notices in Instagram DM and Messenger to inform teenagers when y are chatting with someone who may be in a different country.
company also announced that it is making it difficult for accounts with scammy behaviour to follow teenagers. “Now, we’re also making it harder for accounts showing signals of potentially scammy behavior to request to follow teens. Depending on strength of se signals – which include how new an account is – we’ll eir block follow request completely, or send it to a teen’s spam folder,” company wrote in a post announcing features.
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Lastly, company announced that accounts showing scammy behaviour will not be able to see people’s follower or following list, which will make it difficult for m to target users. “se potential sextorters also won’t be able to see lists of accounts that have liked someone’s posts, photos y’ve been tagged in, or or accounts that have been tagged in ir photos,” company ded.
19:38 IST, October 17th 2024