Not only does Instagram limit your Stories to 15 seconds each, it also prevents you from using videos older than 24 hours or landscape videos without being cropped automatically.
Instagram is working on its own portrait shooting mode for the Stories camera
The kind of mobile portraiture photography popularized by Apple's iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X may soon be coming to the world's top photo-sharing service, Instagram.
Instagram may soon bake voice & video calling functions into its app that no one asked for
Photo-sharing service Instagram could be working on voice and video-calling functions.
How to screenshot Instagram stories without sending a notification
Instagram has been testing a new feature to notify users when someone takes a screenshot of their stories. Similar to what Snapchat has been doing for a while, this new privacy feature aims at increasing the privacy of users will likely roll out to all users eventually.
Instagram confirms it’s testing resharing option
Instagram has officially confirmed it's testing resharing other people's post in your Story.
Instagram officially launches text-only Type feature for Stories
Following a period of beta testing, Instagram on Thursday officially announced a new Type feature in Stories that lets you create text-based posts with colorful backgrounds not unlike those text-only statuses you've been seeing in your News Feed on Facebook.
Instagram introduces post scheduling for business accounts
The Instagram Graph API (built on the Facebook Graph API) has added the ability for businesses and brands to easily create scheduled posts in Instagram Partners apps like Hootsuite and through service such as Facebook Marketing Partners.
Instagram will soon let you add photos and videos “of any size” to your Stories
Instagram has recently promised that its mobile app for iPhone and iPad will soon bring users the ability to upload photos and videos “of any size” to their Stories in order to avoid losing parts of an image or removing a person out of a group video.
How to watch Instagram stories anonymously
Want to view Instagram stories anonymously? In this post, we show you how to view an Instagram story without the user knowing it.
GIF search is coming to Instagram Stories via Giphy integration
Instagram will soon let you jazz up up your story-telling on the platform by allowing you to overlay transparent-background GIF stickers onto their Stories via Giphy integration.
Instagram is testing Story screenshot alerts
Instagram is currently trialing a new privacy-focused feature with a small percentage of its users that would alert them via a notification when someone took a screenshot of their Story.
Instagram is testing a new text-only feature for Stories, called Type
Aside from quietly rolling out a new online status feature in Direct that will be great for stalkers, Instagram has reportedly been working on a text-only capability for Stories, called Type.