Articles tagged "Instagram"

Facebook-owned Instagram has received a lot of flak in the past for disabling accounts without any prior notice. Now, the company has changed its policies and has committed to warning users before disabling their accounts. Instagram users will...

Instagram has started rolling out new features on the platform to combat the harrassment and bullying, especially among teenage users. The first feature uses AI to automatically recognize if someone is posting unfriendly or harassing comments....

Instagram introduced the Polls sticker back in October 2017 that lets you ask questions to your followers, and now, this Facebook subsidiary has announced a new sticker that allows you to quiz your followers. Instagram has introduced the Quiz...

The number of Likes on your Instagram posts may soon be invisible to others as the Facebook subsidiary has created a design prototype, which hides the Like counts from your posts. This information comes to us through reverse engineering expert...

It looks like the online shopping space will be getting more crowded as Instagram is moving in with its new Checkout feature in the US. You will now be able to buy products directly from brand posts without leaving the app. Prior to the...

On Wednesday, Facebook experienced a major but partial outage that lasted most of the day. In my personal experience, I first noticed this when I tried to send a photo through Facebook Messenger and it kept failing, although I was still able to send...

Facebook introduced a feature called "Watch Party" for Facebook Groups last July that lets users watch videos together. The company was later found testing a similar feature on Facebook Messenger, and it now seems that its subsidiary Instagram might...

Instagram has realized not enough people care about its IGTV feature. Naturally, the company decided to put the videos directly on your timeline. Starting Thursday, users will now see IGTV videos from the people they follow appear directly on...

Facebook is currently working on integrating its three chat services - Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. They won't merge, continuing to function as standalone apps, but their owner wants their users to be able to message each other across...

Instagram, your favorite place to see cat photos, week old reddit memes, rejected TikTok videos, ads and occasionally pictures of your friends, has now completely changed the way the timeline works. While the service has had a vertically...

Instagram Direct, the area of the service where you chat with your friends either one-on-one or in group settings, is getting a new feature today. You should file this one under the "how could it possibly have taken this long?" category, because...

Today, Instagram announced a new update coming to Instagram users. The update gets rid of some of the icons on profiles and replaces them with literal text. Rather than icons for each tab, they are now properly labeled with text, which should make...

Instagram has become an immensely popular social app over the past few years and it is now cracking down on accounts with fake followers and removing likes and comments that were created by these third-party apps. In a new blog post, Instagram...

Instagram has come forward to users informing them that as a result of a security flaw their passwords could have been exposed. An Instagram spokesperson has said to The Information that the issue was 'discovered internally and affected a very small...

Instagram added a new feature to its mobile app called Nametag. With Nametag, you can create and customize your own nametag, that others can then scan to follow you. The Nametag option is under the menu on the top right of the screen on your...

There are fully fledged communication apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Facebook Messenger that have a wide variety of functions and features like games, location sharing, stickers, and even sending payments. Then there’s the “direct message”...

Today Instagram has announced three new security-oriented features, in light of its recent account hacking scandal. First off, an About This Account option will be available on every profile (once you tap on the three-dot menu). This will tell...

Facebook and Instagram launched tools that let you monitor your activity on their networks. Available as an option in the Settings menu and currently rolling out to all global users it might take some time for the tool to reach...

Because you obviously aren't using Instagram enough, the Facebook-owned service has added a helpful new feature that should make it even harder to ever leave its interface. From now on, a green dot will show up on in the bottom right corner of...

A couple of interesting bits of information coming out this week regarding Instagram. The company is finally working on incorporating a token-based two-factor authentication system in its app. This was discovered by an engineer within the app's code...