To help users restore deleted content on their account, Instagram is adding a new “Recently Deleted” feature to its uber-popular social media app. The Facebook-owned platform recently introduced the feature that will enable users to review and restore images, videos, IGTV, and Reels content and even stories that have been previously deleted from their Instagram account.
The feature is similar to the recently deleted feature in Apple and Google’s Photos apps and works in the same way. The deleted media files remain in a “Recently Deleted” folder and do not appear on the user’s profile. The files remain in the said folder for 30 days and if the user does not restore a particular file after 30 days, it gets deleted automatically. However, the deleted stories that are not in a user’s archive will remain in the folder for only up to 24 hours.
