Articles tagged "Instagram"

Meta AI is expanding its reach to six more countries today. Alongside the UK, it's also newly available in Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Paraguay, and the Philippines, including support for Tagalog....

Instagram is now letting you easily add text onto your photos. Not just that, but you can also add a picture on top of a picture as a sticker. This also applies to carousels. The company says...

Instagram has quietly upped its limit for carousel posts to 20 items. That means those “photo dump” posts on your feed will now include even more images and videos. This update doubles the previous...

Today Instagram is introducing a way for you to limit interactions with anyone who isn't on your close friends list. This means you will only see comments, DMs, story replies, tags, and mentions from...

Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, announced on Threads that the company is expanding its mute filters to apply to more parts of the app than before. Called Hidden Words, the feature had so far...

Instagram direct messages (DMs) are getting a bunch of new features. First up, editing - this can be done up to 15 minutes after a message is sent. To edit a message, simply press and hold on it and...

Meta launched Threads in early July and as curious Instagram users signed up for the new text-oriented service, it grew to 100 million users in just five days. However, users quickly realized that...

There’s an old saying “if you're not paying for the product, then you’re the product” and Meta is now offering users in Europe more control over their data with no ad targeting on Facebook and...

Meta is rolling out a new foldable-optimized Instagram app update for the Galaxy Z Fold devices which fixes the weird aspect ratio and layout seen in previous releases. The updated UI positions the...

Instagram launched Threads in October 2019 as a standalone app to chat with Instagram Close Friends, but that app is unavailable now since Meta launched a new Threads app last week as its Twitter...

Meta promised to launch Threads, its answer to Twitter, on July 6. Today, the social media surprisingly went live, and now everyone can view content. However, the full features of the new platform...

Meta's Twitter-inspired paid verification service initially went live in Australia and New Zealand, and starting today it's also available to Facebook and Instagram users in the US. The service...

Facebook and Instagram users will soon get a new paid verified badge option in the form of Meta Verified. The $12 per month on web and $15/month on iOS and Android subscription will grant users a...

Meta has been under constant fire from regulators and governments for not protecting teens on its platforms Facebook and Instagram, and now the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company introduced updates to...

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri and Instagram’s social media team are refuting claims that the Instagram app is tracking location data and sharing it with followers looking for your exact location. A...

Today Instagram is out with a new update, and this one lets you buy stuff straight from your chats. This works for purchases from "qualified small businesses", which will confirm your orders, create...

Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri posted an update to Twitter where he announced new features coming to Instagram creators with paid Subscribers. Instagram creators can sign up to the Subscribers...

Instagram’s efforts to compete with TikTok are growing with the blogging platform’s latest move. As per a screenshot posted to Twitter by Matt Navarra, Instagram has begun testing making every video...

Over in the US, Instagram has started testing new ways to have you verify your age. In addition to simply uploading your ID, a method that may take up to two days to verify, you now have two more...

This Wednesday, Meta announced that it is going to begin rolling out AMBER alerts (notifications of missing children in the area) to Instagram across 25 countries. Meta says it has helped authorities...