"With the new feature, you can go back and find videos you might not have had the chance to save. For example, you could be watching an interesting Reel and then receive a phone call, or accidentally close the app while watching, or get distracted by something else and lose your place in the Reels feed. "Have you ever tried to get back to a reel that you'd seen on Instagram and you just can't find it?," Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in an announcement."
"Just like on TikTok, you can sort your Watch History by date, the past week or month, or a specific date range. Plus, you can remove Reels from your watch history if you'd like. Instagram's Watch History offers a bit more flexibility when compared to TikTok's, as you can sort videos in chronological or reverse chronological order, or by author."
"Instagram says the feature was highly requested among users. Before this, users had found workarounds to recover lost videos, such as downloading their data from the app and sifting through it to retrieve their watch history. The feature makes the process of finding lost videos a lot simpler and gets rid of the need for these sorts of workarounds. Plus, it brings the Instagram Reels viewing experience on par with TikTok's."
Instagram introduced a Watch History feature that stores every previously viewed Reel and makes it accessible under Profile > Settings > Your Activity > Watch History. Users can revisit Reels they missed, sort entries by date ranges (past week, month, custom), and remove individual Reels from the history. The feature supports chronological or reverse chronological ordering and sorting by author, offering more flexibility than TikTok's Watch History. Previously, users recovered lost videos by downloading their Instagram data and searching through it. The new Watch History simplifies retrieval of watched Reels and continues Instagram's effort to add Reels features similar to TikTok, such as series and Picture-in-Picture support.
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