BeReal: How does this photo app work and why is it becoming so huge?

After TikTok, Instagram is facing yet another rival: BeReal, an app that prompts you to take share a photo of what you're doing at one specific moment every day. — dpa

LONDON: A new wave of social media apps are becoming increasingly popular among young people who want to get back to interacting with friends over creating content for the world to see.

At the centre of this shift is BeReal, a photo-sharing app designed to show a snapshot of what a user is doing at a certain point during the day, no matter how mundane.