# Instagram Checks New Sorting Filters for Your Reels Feed

Instagram seems to be testing two new search filters for the Reels tab, which might allow you to type your advisable Reels by “Newest” or “Most Considered.”

As you possibly can see on this instance, posted by Brent Colmer (and shared by social media professional Lindsey Gamble), some customers at the moment are seeing the brand new filter choices from a dropdown menu within the Reels tab. For many IG customers, the filters you at present have out there within the Reels tab, accessible by tapping the “Reels” title, are “Following” and “Close by”.

These new choices would provide you with extra capability to filter the Reels that you simply’re proven, although they’d nonetheless presumably be exhibited to you based mostly on IG’s algorithmic matching. So that you’d be filtering the newest of the clips assigned to you, based mostly in your pursuits, versus seeing the newest posts submitted to the app general.

It could possibly be a useful possibility, with the “Most Considered” enabling extra customers to interact with trending content material, along with the recency show. Which may improve general IG engagement, although sorting by recency may additionally imply that extra questionable content material will get traction, because it hasn’t but been moderated or reported by IG customers.

That’s probably a minor concern. Based on Meta’s Group Requirements Enforcement Reviews, the overwhelming majority of violations are proactively detected by Meta’s techniques, earlier than any consumer considerations. So it’s in all probability in a position to choose these out anyway, by constructing in some stage of moderation buffer, and its enhancements on this entrance could possibly be what’s enabled them to even experiment with this in any respect within the stay surroundings.

As such, having extra filter choices could possibly be useful. Or nobody will use them, and so they received’t matter a lot anyway.

We’ve requested Instagram for extra data on this take a look at, and we’ll replace this publish if/once we hear again.