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Instagram users beware: Instagram quietly removes this feature from the app

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Instagram users beware: Instagram quietly removes this feature from the app

In a move that could impact the time users spend on the social media site, social media tech giant Instagram quietly removed the ability for users to limit their daily use of the app to 30 minutes. This comes after the company previously supported Instagram’s custom limits, which could be as low as 15 minutes or even 10 minutes per day. According to a Tech Crunch report, the social media tech giant “made a major PR push to show that its services can be used more ‘cautiously’ as concerns about social media addiction grow”.

According to Mac Rumors, after a recent app update, the “Set Daily Limit” menu card appears and prompts the user to choose how long it should be, with the new minimum being 30 minutes and the radio button next to it being up to 3 hours is pre-selected on the menu card, as if to encourage the user to select that limit.

In 2018, Instagram introduced an in-app option to set a daily time limit and send reminders when that time limit is reached – useful for those who want to limit their social media usage. Users can choose a time limit of ten or even five minutes per day, but choosing such a short time is no longer possible. While the popup indicates that the user can keep the existing limit if desired, an additional popup on the application activity page indicates that the 10 minute value is “no longer supported”. So, after the update, users will find that the new available limits are now 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, and 3 hours.

The change comes a few months after Instagram launched its Take a Break feature, which gives users the option to receive periodic reminders if they use the app for extended periods of time. The change follows Meta’s disappointing quarterly results reported earlier this month, when the company cut its first-quarter 2022 forecast by $30 billion.

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The Mac Rumors report further found that Meta attributes the performance drop in part to Apple’s steps to improve user privacy, making it harder for platforms and apps to track users through other apps and websites for advertising purposes, for which Meta’s deals would pay The price is $10 billion this year.

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.

Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)

Tom signs Nolan’s next

This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.

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Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).

Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.

Tom’s busy schedule

Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.

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As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.

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