Meta has confirmed it’s testing a BeReal clone for Instagram, known as IG Candid.

In case you’re unfamiliar with BeReal, it’s a comparatively new app that sends you a notification at a random time as soon as a day to take a simultaneous selfie and rear-facing photograph exhibiting what you’re doing inside two minutes. Going by what frequent leaker and cell developer Alessandro Paluzzi tweeted out, IG Candid works the identical means.

#Instagram is engaged on IG Candid Challenges, a characteristic impressed by @BeReal_App 👀

ℹ️ Add different's IG Candid to your story tray. And on a regular basis at a distinct time, get a notification to seize and share a Photo in 2 Minutes. pic.twitter.com/caTCgUPtEV

— Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) August 22, 2022

Basically, IG Candid invitations customers to take part in Candid Challenges by sending them a notification at a distinct time every day to snap a twin photograph of themselves and their atmosphere exhibiting what they’re doing at that precise second. The Instagram digicam opens each the entrance and rear lenses when the person responds to the notification, they usually’re given a two-minute time restrict to take the image. The footage taken might be added to the Stories tray.

Meta spokesperson instructed Engadget that IG Candid is an “internal prototype” and isn’t testing it externally on any group of Instagram customers. This assertion implies that the characteristic might turn out to be publicly accessible sooner or later sooner or later — if the corporate truly plans to launch it in any respect.

The BeReal app launched in 2019, nevertheless it didn’t acquire a lot reputation till earlier this summer time. As of this writing, it sits at No. 1 on the App Store charts.

Like BeReal, IG Candid goals to encourage customers to put up genuine footage of their lives, somewhat than the painstakingly Photoshopped ones that Instagram and different social media websites are recognized for. The drawback is that most individuals would both be working, searching for groceries, or sitting in entrance of the TV once they obtain the notification to take the image, so they might be exhibiting essentially the most inauthentic components of themselves as a substitute of issues they do exterior of actions.

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