Articles tagged "Instagram"

For the past few months or so, Facebook has been on a mission. A mission to ape every unique functionality inside Snapchat, in a wholesale manner, and bring it to its own services. Instagram has benefitted the most from this strategy, by far. In...

Instagram has announced that its Stories feature now has over 200 million daily users. This puts it ahead of Snapchat – who was the first to introduce this feature – and has about 158 million users as of February. Keeping up with the...

At the beginning of this month some people started seeing the ability to create multiple-image posts on Instagram's beta app for Android. After a few weeks of testing, this feature has become official today. From this point on you're able to add...

If you've ever wanted to add multiple photos on Instagram in the same post, like an album of sorts, well, then you'll be very happy to read about the social network's next feature. Instagram is in fact getting ready to allow multi-photo...

Instagram announced it will start showing adverts within Stories - pictures and short videos that last 24 hours before dissapearing in the abyss (or Instagram’s servers). You can reach them at the top of the feed and apparently you will also reach...

Say what you will about Instagram's recent quest to beat Snapchat at its own game, but the strategy seems to be working. The Facebook-owned social network centered on photos has announced today that it has more than 600 million users. The last...

It seems like Instagram has been adding features left and right recently, and today is no different. The Facebook-owned photo-focused social network is announcing a new Saved Posts tab that's part of your Profile section in its mobile apps for...

Last month Instagram announced live video functionality for its Stories section that's basically like Snapchat. Unlike most such feature unveilings, that didn't come with an immediate rollout. Instead, the Facebook-owned company said the live video...

Instagram has announced a few new features today, that are going to arrive in its apps for Android and iOS "soon". First off, you'll be able to turn off comments individually for any of your posts. This was previously available "for a small number...

Instagram just keeps on adding features, especially recently since it's embarked on a mission to become the next Snapchat. Today the Facebook-owned service is announcing that live video capabilities are coming to its Stories section. When you're...

Today Instagram is adding some new features to Stories, the section it initially ripped off from Snapchat, but then made it better. Last month Stories started being featured in Instagram's Explore tab, for example. As part of Instagram 9.7, which...

Instagram launched Stories back in August as basically a carbon copy of Snapchat's similar functionality. Since then, you've been able to see Stories from the people you follow in the top area of your Home tab. But what if you want to discover...

Snapchat was met with a lot of criticism back when it introduced a change in the way we look at our friends’ Snapchat Stories. Rather than tapping on a single friend’s story and then bringing you back to the Stories page after viewing the story, the...

Instagram has updated its Windows 10 app with some new features that had previously been introduced on iOS and Android a few weeks back. One of the features is pinch to zoom, which means you can now zoom into images for whatever reason...

Instagram is phasing out its photo maps feature. This feature allowed you to see yours and others' geotagged photos on a map, with all photos taken at a particular location appear bunched together and as you zoom into the map the images would place...

This is one of those things that we can't believe are only now being added to an app. See, Instagram is all about pictures and videos, and pinching to zoom on images and videos is basically second nature on a device with a touchscreen. Yet only...

Lately Instagram has been very active in updating its apps with new features. Not always big, those, but it does seem that something different is coming from the Facebook-owned photo-focused social network every week or so. This time around we're...

Last September, Instagram proudly announced it had more than 400 million monthly active users, boasting that it had achieved that milestone less than a year after hitting the 300 million number. And now, around nine months after that, the...

Instagram has finally updated its app to add support for feature that Apple introduced to iOS back in 2014. You can now finally share images to the Instagram app from within Photos or other apps on iOS, using the iOS share sheet...

Back in March Instagram created a rift in the time-space continuum when it announced that it was going to test a new, algorithmic way of sorting its users' photo feeds. This came after years upon years of greatly coveted reverse-chronology, so...