Instagram has always been the one of the easiest ways to share the photos to the world, but in the past that hasn’t come without its caveats. The Facebook-owned social networking platform has only ever allowed for the sharing of square photos, but that’s changing.
In the new update rolling out on Android, Instagram will finally let you post full-size portrait and landscape photos. In fact, the Instagram team says that nearly one in every five photos posted to the site aren’t in the standard square format, which is why the company is changing its ways.
After you receive the update, simply tap on the format icon to adjust the orientation to portrait or landscape instead of square. Your photo will show up in your feed in the orientation that you’ve chosen. But to keep your profile looking clean, your post will appear there as a center-cropped square as the app now gives folks the ability to post widescreen videos without the need to download a third party application to do so.
Last month Instagram announced that it would begin supporting 1080×1080 resolution photos, which was a much-needed addition to the platform. Between the bump up in resolution and these new formatting changes, our Instagram feeds are about to look a heck of a lot better.
Instagram for iOS version 7.5 is available today in Apple’s App Store, and Instagram for Android version 7.5 is available today on Google Play.
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