You can now hide 'likes' on IG

[SnowflakesByTheOZ]

Giving People More Control on Instagram and Facebook

You may have noticed that we’ve been testing hiding like counts on Instagram for a while. Today, we’re announcing that everyone on Instagram and Facebook will now have the option to hide their public like counts, so they can decide what works for them.

We tested hiding like counts to see if it might depressurize people’s experience on Instagram. What we heard from people and experts was that not seeing like counts was beneficial for some, and annoying to others, particularly because people use like counts to get a sense for what’s trending or popular, so we’re giving you the choice.

We’re looking for more ways to give people control over their experience. That’s why we announced new tools to allow people to filter offensive content from their DMs and gave people ways to control what they see and share on Facebook’s News Feed – like the Feed Filter Bar, Favorites Feed and Choose Who Can Comment.

New options to hide public like counts
Starting today, we’re giving you the option to hide like counts on all posts in your feed. You’ll also have the option to hide like counts on your own posts, so others can’t see how many likes your posts get. This way, if you like, you can focus on the photos and videos being shared, instead of how many likes posts get.

You can hide like counts on others’ posts by visiting the new Posts section in Settings. This control applies to all the posts in your feed.

 

[Egomaniacal1]

So hiding like counts from the general public, not from yourself also right? And you can choose or not choose this feature?

Thought it was about to a bunch of women about to commit that for not being able to see how many likes they got... false alarm.

 

[SnowflakesByTheOZ]

So hiding like counts from the general public, not from yourself also right? And you can choose or not choose this feature?

Thought it was about to a bunch of women about to commit that for not being able to see how many likes they got... false alarm.

Yea you can choose to have it hidden from the public but you can see how many liked the post. People can also click 'others' and see who liked the post and go through the count but that would be alot of work especially if there are alot of likes. It's a step in the right direction though.