This might be attention-grabbing.

Instagram seems to be experimenting with a brand new possibility that might allow you to disguise the outline and UI buttons on Reels clips, providing you with a cleaner viewing expertise.

As you possibly can see on this screenshot, posted by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, Instagram is experimenting with what it’s calling Clear Mode, which might be activated by lengthy urgent on a Reel.

When you flip it on, the entire UI and descriptions can be hidden from view, to be able to higher deal with the primary video content material.

Which, by the way, is sort of precisely the performance {that a} Reddit consumer beneficial for this over a 12 months in the past, noting that Instagram might simply present a technique to clear the display screen, and restrict muddle, whereas additionally including a speaker icon as a substitute mute.

As a result of it’s irritating, at instances, when the UI parts cowl the display screen.

TikTok already has a Clear Show possibility, which you’ll entry by long-pressing on a clip. The one limitation of that’s you possibly can solely clear the show for every video that you simply’re watching, one-by-one, as a result of as quickly as you swipe to the subsequent video, the UI parts return.

Which makes excellent sense, as TikTok desires to offer credit score and promotion to creators, and supply extra methods for customers to work together. However provided that the performance is already on TikTok, it appears logical for Instagram so as to add the identical.

As such, I’d anticipate this to be coming quickly. We’ve requested IG for more information on this take a look at, and whether or not it is likely to be rolled out extra broadly in future.