It’s a strategy that, as annoying as it is, has mostly worked. Inevitably, the features aren’t as good as the original, but that’s not the point. Instagram knows that it only has to make features that are good enough to keep people from wanting to go anywhere else.

Instagram has made changes in recent days that appear to be aimed at attracting TikTok users while the short-video app’s future remains in limbo.

When TikTok went off the air (to use a very old-fashioned phrase), there was a scramble to find an alternative to its shortform video feed — and a similar scramble by various social networks to provide that alternative. (In fact, while I was writing this, Tumblr launched its new Tumblr TV feature.) The question is: how successful are they?

Open Instagram and go to Settings. Select Device Permissions. Look for Location and choose Never or While Using the App. To disable location tracking entirely, turn off Location Services in your phone's settings. These steps prevent Instagram from accessing or sharing your location.

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With TikTok still absent from app stores, Instagram is offering creators $10,000 to $50,000 per month to exclusively post Reels, according to The Information.

Users on TikTok are blocking Facebook and Instagram from their accounts, citing concerns that the Meta companies are changing their "For You" pages on the video platform.According to multiple users, their "For You" pages seemed strange after TikTok came back online following its brief dark period earlier this week.

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A new report claims that Instagram is offering content creators $50,000 or more to leave TikTok and post on Reels instead.

The tool is slated to be released on March 13, Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, announced. TikTok has since restored service in the US.

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CapCut is a free video-editing platform created, owned and operated by ByteDance. It was launched in the U.S. in 2020. It was the second most downloaded photo and video app in the Apple App Store after Instagram, according to USA Today.