{"id":1008307,"date":"2026-05-16T12:14:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008307"},"modified":"2026-05-16T12:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:03:50","slug":"instagram-instants-explained-what-the-new-feature-is-and-how-to-turn-it-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/16\/instagram-instants-explained-what-the-new-feature-is-and-how-to-turn-it-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Instants explained: What the new feature is and how to turn it off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram has officially rolled out its new \u201cInstants\u201d feature globally. The feature has introduced disappearing photo-sharing directly inside users\u2019 DM inboxes. However, the launch has already sparked confusion, privacy complaints and viral backlash online.<\/p>\n<p>The feature closely resembles elements from Snapchat and BeReal. It allows users to send temporary photos that disappear after being viewed or after 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram has officially rolled out its new \u201cInstants\u201d feature globally. The feature has introduced disappearing photo-sharing directly inside users\u2019 DM inboxes. However, the launch has already sparked confusion, privacy complaints and viral backlash online. The feature closely resembles elements from Snapchat and BeReal. It allows users to send temporary photos that disappear after being viewed or after 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008310,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008307\/revisions\/1008310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}