Instagram is bushed of creators making their videos successful Reels and past heading implicit to TikTok. While utilizing Reels this week, The Verge discovered that erstwhile trying to download an edited clip to an iPhone, the audio from the clip disappeared. This means if you privation to export the footage from Reels to usage successful different app, you person to really station the Reel archetypal successful bid to prevention the sound. As precocious arsenic precocious July, it was imaginable to download the clip with audio and usage it successful a abstracted app — like, say, TikTok — without posting it first.

The audio was stripped retired connected 3 iPhones we tested, though exports with audio were inactive imaginable with Instagram connected Android. Instagram did not respond to aggregate requests for remark connected whether this was a glitch oregon an intentional change.

Speaking from experience, TikTok’s in-app tools are not peculiarly utile for much precocious editing. TikTok doesn’t let you to usage immoderate filters erstwhile starting with footage filmed extracurricular the app, and it doesn’t let you to download clips that aren’t finished oregon watermarked. (YouTube Shorts conscionable added a watermark requirement, too.)

To get astir this, TikTok users tin leap implicit to Instagram, which has akin features for Reels. You could, for instance, usage Instagram’s greenish surface effect — which is much flexible for editing than TikTok’s mentation — and past download that clip and nonstop it implicit to TikTok. This instrumentality is utilized by creators some arsenic a mode to bypass TikTok’s unspeakable editing instrumentality and arsenic a mode to usage video features oregon filters that are lone connected Instagram. Or, astatine slightest it utilized to be.

While each of these steps marque filming for creators a small much time-consuming, relying connected downloaded Instagram clips was 1 of the easiest ways to marque much dynamic TikTok videos portion inactive utilizing filters. Without the quality to download the clips with sound, users are present faced with 2 choices: trust wholly connected TikTok’s mediocre editing bundle conscionable to usage definite features oregon upload to Instagram Reels.

This alteration comes connected the heels of Instagram temporarily walking backmost TikTok-esque algorithm changes. But it’s inactive a motion that Instagram is determined to bargain the throne of shortform video platforms.