Did you think that you could see more advertisements in Instagram? Well, lucky for you the Facebook-owned social network has the same feelings. And they're fixing it promptly.
Instagram is adding ads to the Explore page
Instagram is trying to make it easier to recover a hacked account
Instagram is one of the most popular social networks out there, which makes some profiles a prime target for hacking. And unfortunately for some account owners, the current state of security on the platform doesn't make it easy to get a hacked profile back. But Instagram is looking to change that.
How to upload photos and videos to Instagram in the highest quality
Learn how to stop Instagram from compressing the photos you post and other related information to publish high-quality photos and videos.
Lens packs nearly every Instagram feature you could want into the Apple Watch app
When Instagram removed its half-baked Apple Watch app altogether, Instagrammers were left with no official client in sight. Enter Lens, a fully-featured unofficial client for Instagram which works without an iPhone and is much more capable than the discontinued watchOS app.
Instagram is finally supporting landscape video on IGTV
The Facebook-owned Instagram launched its long-form video content platform, IGTV, back in 2018. Since then, the company has been all-in with vertical video, meant to be viewed on smartphones without switching to landscape. But it looks like that focus has shifted, and landscape video will finally be supported.
A flaw on the Instagram website leaked phone numbers and emails for months
After admitting in April that millions of Instagram and Facebook passwords were stored in plaintext, researchers have now discovered a flaw on the Instagram website that has reportedly leaked users' phone numbers and email addresses for months.
Instagram’s IGTV gets a new streamlined interface
It has been just under a year since the Facebook-owned Instagram launched IGTV, its platform for creators to publish original content for the platform. Since then, there have been changes along the way in an effort to get more people to use it. Instagram's latest effort takes a more dramatic approach.
Instagram is killing off its standalone Direct messaging app
Instagram's standalone direct-messaging app, called "Direct from Instagram," will be killed off in the next few weeks, TechCrunch reports. A spokesperson for the Facebook-owned company has acknowledged that “We’re rolling back the test of the standalone Direct app”.
How to stop Instagram from saving photos to iPhone Photos app
Learn how to prevent photos you take inside Instagram from automatically saving to your iPhone's Camera Roll, which helps declutter your Photos app and saves storage space.
Instagram is testing killing the like count on photos, new Create Mode coming soon
Instagram is gaining four cool new features while testing killing the like count on photos with a small percentage of users in Canada as a way to combat bots that generate fake likes.
Apple’s newly appointed retail boss Deirdre O’Brien joins Instagram to detail her world tour of company stores
Deirdre O’Brien, who was promoted to Apple's Senior Vice President of Retail + People after the departure of ex retail head Angela Ahrendts, is touring Apple Stores around the world to familiarize herself with Apple's retail efforts, documenting her experiences on Instagram.
ChromaGram provides simple color customization for the Instagram app
Apart from Facebook and Twitter, Instagram is perhaps one of the most popular mobile-centric social platforms, and yet it still hasn’t adopted a native dark mode interface of any sort. With that in mind, wouldn’t it be great if you could just skip to the beat yourself?
Those in agreeance might take a liking to a new free jailbreak tweak called ChromaGram by iOS developer Revulate. As depicted in the screenshot examples above, this tweak lets you colorize the Instagram app however you’d like, whether you’re into dark mode-centric aesthetics or something else entirely.