Social media addiction is increasing day by day. Many of us spend a significant amount of our day watching videos on platforms like Reels, TikTok, and Shorts. However, this habit can lead to both anxiety in scenarios where we don’t have internet access and running out of data for our internet packages. The solution is now quite simple: Instagram Reels download. Here are the details…

Instagram Introduces the Reels Download Feature!

According to a post by Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri, Instagram is gaining a Reels download feature. As per Mosseri, this feature will offer a download option similar to YouTube Premium. Users who wish to do so can access and watch videos through the app even without an internet connection.

The Instagram Reels download feature is quite similar to the download feature that comes with YouTube Premium, as mentioned earlier. Instead of taking up space in your gallery, the videos are saved in a dedicated area within the app. This way, you can access the downloaded videos from there when you are offline or don’t want to use your data.

This feature will particularly benefit those who collect their favorite Reels in the saved section. Unfortunately, despite Mosseri’s statement, this feature has not been rolled out globally yet. It will likely take a few days for this process to complete, so we cannot show you the screenshots we have taken.

In fact, the company had started allowing Reels downloads to users in the United States back in June, and now it is beginning to roll out this feature to users worldwide. Of course, the Instagram Reels download feature has also brought copyright debates. Instagram’s initial solution to this issue is to mute the sound during the download of videos with copyrighted music.

However, another issue is people stealing others’ videos. YouTube and TikTok address this problem by adding a watermark logo during the download. This way, users watching the video on other platforms can see the original video owner’s name. Of course, this doesn’t mean that people won’t make an extra effort to download the video from somewhere else.

Still, Instagram, like YouTube and TikTok, needs to protect content creators by not directly providing this convenience to content thieves.

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