Instagram will have time bars for your videos

One of the problems when watching a video on Instagram is that a progress bar does not appear with the duration time, nor with the option to advance o go back depending on our interests. It limits us to seeing it in its entirety and, worst of all, repeating it if there is a part that we want to see or listen to again. This could change very soon. The platform would be testing a function that would go beyond the countdown shown in the upper right corner.

This new Instagram bar would give us the ability to go forward or backward in the video without having to watch it over and over again.We could get to the second we needed quickly,just like other rival services. The function has been discovered in the Instagram code by the developer Jane Manchun Wong, who usually finds this type of news by diving into the app's programming. Many of her discoveries have become official after bringing them to light. We can mention among them the sticker to share music in Stories or video calls. What we do not know is if the latter will end up being officially deployed, or when this could happen.

In any case, this is not the only novelty that Manchun Wong has found in the code. The developer has seen that Instagram would be working on the possibility of watching videos with a friend simultaneously, even if they were hundreds of kilometers away.Sharing the same content with a friend would increase interaction Possibly this is one of the objectives, since it could be commented on in real time or receive more likes than normal.

You have to remember that Facebook already has a similar service to share videos with friends and watch them at the same time. This is the Facebook Watch Party, a kind of streaming platform like Twitch,that offers the possibility of watching videos outside of the direct.