About Damn Time: Instagram Now Lets You Zoom In On Photos
Progress!
Entertainment
September 1, 2016

Everybody knows the pain of wanting to give an Instagram post a closer inspection, having to screenshot the image, click over to your Camera Roll and zoom from there. Those few seconds are really, truly painful.

That’s something that the folks over at Instagram HQ have realised, because starting from now on iOS, you can zoom in on Instagram posts on your feed, profiles and on the ‘Explore’ tab! Progress! The new feature was announced on Instagram’s own Instagram page, where they say that the new feature will allow you to “dive into an adorable puppy’s smile or into every detail of your friend’s new shirt.” We’re sure that the zoom feature will be used for a lot of other things besides puppies and shirts – wink wink – but that’s a nice start:

The change comes just weeks after Instagram introduced a stories feature which somehow avoided being sued by Snapchat. Get zooming on Instagram now, but if you happen to be an Android user, you’ll have to wait another few weeks for the upgrade with your prehistoric, un-zoomable profile. By the way, this seems like a nice time to give our own Instagram account a shameless plug, follow us by clicking the image below. We’ll love you forever:

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