Articles tagged "Instagram"

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...

Another day, another new feature addition to Instagram. The Facebook-owned service has certainly broken records over the past few months when it comes to speed of adding new functionality. Today Stories gain music stickers. When you tap to add a...

Facebook introduced Lite app for its social network back in 2015 and Messenger Lite for its messaging service two months ago, so the most logical thing was to launch Instagram Lite. The waiting is over, and the photo-centric social media is on...

Instagram recently hit 1 billion monthly active users, and the Facebook-owned service isn't showing any signs of slowing down the relentless pace at which it keeps adding new features. This strategy is probably behind the fact that the average US...

Instagram has pushed a minor update to its iOS and Android app that allows reposting of content you are tagged in. Starting today, if someone tags you in their Instagram Story, you will get a DM from that person with the Story post. With it...

Instagram has added the option to share others' posts as Stories. Users can now tap on the share button below every post and will see an option to add it to their story. The image can be customized before posting. The ability to share...

Instagram has added a new way to poll something among your followers. While the previous polling option was binary, this new option instead lets your followers rate something on a scale. The emoji slider is literally just that, a slider with...

Today is F8 (pronounced “eff eight”), which is Facebook’s annual developer conference where Instagram has just announced a bunch of new features coming to the platform. There’s a bunch to cover so let’s get into it. Not long ago, we saw further...