Wrapped for Instagram a new app is raising security concerns

A third-party software, Wrapped for Instagram, that was created to showcase who stalked or blocked you on the app is raising security issues. Meta is against the company.

A new app that promises to show Instagram users how others are stalking their material is generating a lot of buzz and mistrust.

Over the weekend, Wrapped for Instagram, a third-party software unaffiliated with the platform or its parent company, Meta, reached the top of the iOS software store charts thanks to millions of downloads.

Launched in September, the app claims to provide Instagram users with juicy statistics like the number of accounts that screenshot posts, the number of accounts that block them, and the accounts that view their profiles.

As users started sharing their "Instagram Wrapped" photos on social media, concerns about the potential for someone to be caught for surreptitiously viewing someone's profile also grew.

Annual social media campaigns that provide a summary of users' online activities have been around for a while. The sharing of these data, which Spotify Wrapped started doing in 2016 to highlight users' distinctive listening patterns, soon became an annual ritual. Lately, other platforms have joined the trend, including BeReal, Apple Music, and Grubhub. However, recap ads are typically promoted by the platforms directly, not via unaffiliated applications.

News networks were informed by a Meta representative that the Wrapped software is against company policies and that Apple has been requested to remove it from the software store. The spokesman declined to elaborate further.