Instagram launches 'Recently Deleted' feature that allows you to easily restore deleted photos

On February 2, 2021, Instagram, a photo sharing service, announced ' Recent Deleted, ' which allows you to restore deleted photos and movies. Instagram positions this feature as a hacking measure that hijacks accounts and deletes content.

Introducing'Recently Deleted' | Instagram Blogs
https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/launch-of-ig-recently-deleted-media-folder

Instagram Adds'Recently Deleted' Folder to Safeguard Against Mistaken Post Removal | Social Media Today
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/instagram-adds-recently-deleted-folder-to-safeguard-against-mistaken-post/594330/

Instagram is a photo sharing app that features a 'Stories' feature that automatically deletes posts in 24 hours. Instagram updated its official blog on February 2nd, saying, 'Hackers sometimes delete content when they access their accounts, but until now there was no easy way to get back photos and movies. Starting today, you can restore or permanently delete recently deleted content. If you want to use this feature, perform additional authentication to verify that you are the legitimate owner of your account. Please. '

From now on, deleted photos, movies, reels , IGTV videos and stories will be moved to the 'Recently Deleted folder'. When the content is moved to the 'Recently Deleted folder', Stories will be automatically permanently deleted after 24 hours and everything else after 30 days, but users will be 'set' before the content is permanently deleted. It is possible to restore the contents from the 'Recently Deleted folder' by operating in the order of 'Account' and 'Recently Deleted'.

Social Media Today, a social media news site, said, 'The Recent Deleted feature may not completely solve the problem of content being deleted, but it seems to be reliable to some extent. Users can read the Recent Deleted folder. If hackers are serious about it, they will be able to permanently delete content from ”, so Instagram needs proof that it is the legitimate owner of the account to use the Recently Deleted feature. I did. '

In addition, even if I accessed the account from the latest Instagram app at the time of article creation, the corresponding folder was not found, so it seems that Recently Deleted is not implemented in the Japanese version Instagram yet.