MADRID, 23 (Portaltic/EP)
Instagram is working on a new feature focused on a notification system that alerts the user that they have two minutes to post an image, a feature that already exists in BeReal.
Considered the alternative to the social network owned by Meta, BeReal focuses on improvisation and forces its users to stop looking for the perfect frame of their posts to encourage spontaneity.
This platform of French origin does not have filters or other editing tools characteristic of this type of application, but the image is published as it has been made.
Users can only upload one photo per day within a two-minute window. Before that, they receive a notification that the countdown has started and they have that time to make the capture they want.
Now Instagram would be working on a similar idea, as the reverse engineering expert Alessandro Paluzzi has been able to verify, who has shared a screenshot on his Twitter account in which a notification similar to the BeReal one appears on Instagram.
“Join IG Candid Challenges. Add others’ IG Candid to your Stories inbox. Every day at a different time, you’ll get a notification to capture and share a photo within 2 minutes,” this alert reads.
Likewise, Paluzzi has warned that, by accepting this notice, both the rear camera and the selfie lens of Instagram also open as a dual camera. Once the image is made, it will be uploaded in Stories format in the user’s profile.
At this time, it’s unknown if this feature will make it to the final version of the app, though a company spokesperson told Engadget that it’s being tested as an “internal prototype” that “is not being tested externally.”