Instagram head Adam Mosseri stated Wednesday that the app now permits all customers the world over to obtain public Reels to their units. Previous to this rollout, you might solely save Reels to the Instagram app for viewing them later.
Mosseri stated on his broadcast channel on Instagram that downloaded Reels may have an Instagram watermark with an account title — identical to the one you see on TikTok.
Customers can faucet on the share button and choose the obtain choice to save lots of a reel. Accounts may have the power to show off downloading for his or her Reels. You may flip the obtain choice off by means of Settings > Privateness > Reels and Remix and faucet on the “Allow people to download your Reels” toggle.
Notably, in case you are downloading a Reel that makes use of a licensed audio clip, the downloaded video is not going to have any audio. Solely Reels with authentic audio tracks may have sound within the downloaded clip.
The corporate began permitting Reels obtain for U.S.-based customers in June and now it’s rolling out the power to customers the world over.
In 2021, Instagram stopped recommending clips with a TikTok watermark (or some other watermark). In August 2022, YouTube started embedding a logo-based watermark on downloaded Shorts — the corporate’s brief video product — to discourage cross-platform sharing.