How many times have you browsed Netflix or YouTube and spotted intriguing content, but thought twice before clicking on it because you were worried that interest might affect your recommendations? From Spotify to TikTok, the media that these applications and services present to us are selected by algorithms that are constantly learning and vigilant. And even though they sometimes seem to know our tastes better than we do, have you ever wished you could have a fresh start? Lucky for you, Instagram is stepping up its efforts with a new tool that offers what amounts to a big reset button for recommendations.

Meta shares news from Instagram new option to reset recommendations in the context of teen safety and giving them tools to better control their IG experience, but it’s a feature that will absolutely find broader appeal. Anyone who has watched too many woodworking videos out of curiosity and now finds their recommendations drowned in a sea of ​​dovetail and groove demonstrations knows exactly what we’re talking about.

You can choose to keep the list of accounts you follow intact, but the app will give you the option to strip it of unwanted entries when resetting the algorithm. This is a clean slate across the board, affecting both crawling, reels and your stream. And while that probably means dealing with a lot of randomness and uninteresting recommendations at first, it shouldn’t be long before the app starts focusing on your tastes again.

If you’d like to help lend a hand to this process, Meta suggests taking full advantage of your ability to mark content in Explore as “Interested,” positively signaling to the algorithm that this sort of thing is your jam. Hopefully, this will help ensure future recommendations come your way – until you accidentally spend an entire afternoon watching videos about a pressure washer, anyway.