Instagram introduces TikTok-like short videos feature ‘Reels’ in India

NEW DELHI: A little over a week after ByteDance owned short video app TikTok was banned in India, Facebook’s photo sharing app Instagram has announced the extension of testing of its short video format Reels in India. Instagram said through a ‘fairly broad’ test, Reels will be rolled out to most of India from Wednesday.

Reels has been tested in Brazil, Germany and France before India.

The company said Reels will enable people to record and edit 15 seconds multi clip videos with audio effects and users could share Reels content on their feed, or through a new space on the explore section.