Instagram

Instagram

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About this app

Instagram (from Meta) allows you to create and share your photos, stories, reels and videos with the friends and followers you care about. Connect with friends, share what you're up to, or see what's new from others all over the world. Explore our community where you can feel free to be yourself and share everything from your daily moments to life's highlights.

INSTA reels bring you a new way to create and discover entertaining short videos. You can watch, like, comment, and share reels videos in a dedicated space in the Reels tab.

*Watch & create short clips up to 30 seconds long with INSTA Reels.
Add special effects, background music, face filters, emojis, and stickers to bring your reels and stories to life
Upload your creative video clips and reels to expand your audience
Enjoy millions of entertaining, funny, and informative videos and reels
Watch & share any Instagram Reels video with your friends

*Add photos and videos to your INSTA Story that disappear after 24 hours, and bring them to life with fun creative tools.
Stories allow you to easily share moments or posts from your day with text, music, stickers, and GIFs to bring your Stories to life
Share memes privately with your friends and have conversations
Boomerangs loop any moment you capture for a fun mini-video while Superzoom lets you add special effects as the camera automatically zooms in
Add polls to your Stories to get more interaction with friends and followers
Choose specific Close Friends who can watch your video clips or make them public
Pin your favorite memories to your profile to keep your Stories alive as Highlights

* Message your friends in Direct
Start fun conversations with one or more friends about what you see on Feed, Stories, and INSTA Reels.
Video chat to connect no matter where you are
Learn about what's trending from your favorite accounts and share them to friends
Send messages to your friends, share posts privately, and receive chat notifications

* Post photos, reels and videos to your INSTA Feed
Upload photos and videos directly from your phone library
Share content with your followers instantly
Post photos and videos to your feed that you want to show on your profile
Post short videos, reels or photo updates from moments in your life
Receive notifications when someone likes or comments on your post

*Search & Explore to Learn More About Your Interests
* Follow your favorite bands, celebrities, actors, athletes, and singers for live updates
* Watch skits, movie scenes, news updates, music performances, sports highlights, and more from your favorite pages
* Check out IGTV for longer videos from your favorite INSTA creators.
* Discover brands and connect with local small businesses
* Shop for products that compliment your personal style.

Ratings and reviews

Editing videos is really hard. The app freezes, doesn't work most of the time. And there are no alternatives. You are not allowed to upload on the browser. A lot of things happen without you getting notified about them beforehand. There are settings for media upload quality, everyone!! Look at those before you post. IG will not post your photos at their original quality, otherwise. For a system that solely focuses on media, it's interesting how troublesome the bare-bones system can be.

While this is a really good app, it has quite a few issues. Its oftentimes slow or refuses to load. Otherwise, the biggest issue I and others are currently having is the fact that the app deletes stories off of highlights without warning. Not only that, but it just replays the first one over and over and wont allow you to look at other stories on the highlight. Its quite annoying. It also fails to upload bug reports on the app itself.

Editing photos and videos has become the biggest, most frustrating hassle. I'll spend 15-20 minutes tweaking a photo, cropping and positioning it, only for it to revert back to its original appearance once I try to save my changes. Either that or it corrupts the file or turns the photo sideways. Or it shifts the photo to one side, leaving a black or white blank space on the other side. Never mind the amount of ads and the push for reels. Insta's 🚮 any more.