Threads wants to let you wipe your old posts away

Threads is testing the choice to robotically disguise your old posts. Instagram head Adam Mosseri says the characteristic is simply accessible to a “small number” of customers for now, however it is going to let you select to archive particular person posts manually or have them robotically archived after a sure period of time.

You can see an instance of how the characteristic may look in Mosseri’s publish on Threads. Users with entry to the check ought to find a way to manually archive their content material by hitting the three dots within the top-right nook of a publish and deciding on “Archive now.” This will give customers the choice to disguise sure posts on their profiles, comparable to the archive possibility on Instagram.

Mosseri says that customers could make their posts public once more at any time. He additionally provides that this characteristic gained’t change into the default on Threads. “I ran a poll… and the resounding feedback was not to make this the default, so we’re gonna try it as an option,” Mosseri says.

Users on X, previously often called Twitter, have lengthy requested the flexibility to archive posts on the platform, and plenty of have turned to third-party providers to disguise their content material as an alternative. At least Threads might finally have an archiving possibility built-in.