Meta Threads users can now stop their posts from showing on Instagram

Many Threads users are now saying they’ve the flexibility to choose out of getting their posts proven on Instagram and Facebook. To preserve Threads posts from showing up Meta’s different platforms, faucet the 2 strains within the high proper of the Threads app > Privacy > Suggesting posts on different apps — two switches let users flip off ideas on Instagram or Facebook. Meta tends to roll out Threads options slowly, so in the event you don’t see the brand new toggles but, give it time.

Instagram and Facebook every received a “For you on Threads” carousel in the previous couple of months. Responding to person grumpiness, Threads stated in October it was “listening to feedback” shortly earlier than testing the opt-out change that’s rolling out now.

The characteristic was clearly supposed to drive engagement on Threads, because the platform gave the impression to be foundering after its spectacular preliminary launch. But issues are trying lots higher now. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated on an earnings name final month that Threads now has virtually 100 million month-to-month users. That’s nonetheless in need of the “over half a billion monthly users” that Elon Musk lately claimed that X has, but it surely’s signal for Threads, simply over 4 months into its life.