Instagram has updated their inactive username policy to indirectly state that it no longer removes accounts after prolonged inactivity. The company’s new policy only states that it encourages people to log in and use Instagram once they create an account, while previously it stated that “Accounts may be permanently removed due to prolonged inactivity.” The previous username policy ensured that if a person is not using his Instagram account enough, the username will be freed…
Instagram is now letting users send a GIF in direct messages. The feature is slowly rolling out to users. To see if you have it on your Instagram account, look for the GIF button right next to the Write a message… input field on the DM screen. Go to the DM…
Instagram will soon let you tag someone in videos too. The company has updated their support page to show instructions on how to tag people in a video. Until now, you could only @mention someone in your videos on Instagram. TechCrunch earlier this month reported that the feature is…
Instagram recently released video calling feature for its users. The new feature is available on both Android and iOS devices, and users can make cross-platform video calls to their friends and family members through the new service. To make a video call on Instagram, you’ve to go to the…
Instagram is rolling out a new feature called “Your Activity” dashboard which tells you the time you spent using the app on a daily basis. You can find this option under the user Settings within the Instagram app. The activity dashboard is rolling out to both iOS and Android…
Being a smartphone focused video sharing platform, IGTV is entirely different from YouTube, FaceBook, and other similar services. If you’re a professional and looking to upload quality videos to IGTV, you need to do certain things differently for IGTV. IGTV only supports vertical videos. It is a considerable…
It has only been a day since Instagram launched IGTV, but creators around the world have already started uploading vertical videos to the new video sharing platform. As a user, if you like a video on IGTV and would like to save or download it for offline viewing,…
Instagram has finally released the much-awaited video calling feature to their iOS and Android apps. To make a call to someone on Instagram, you must follow them, and they must follow you back. You cannot make a call to someone who doesn’t follow you on Instagram. This restriction…
The IGTV by Instagram uses a vertical format for video which isn’t very popular among professional creators yet. Users prefer to shoot videos in the landscape format only because it’s wide and our computers/TV screens feature the same aspect ratio. But for smartphone users, IGTV’s format makes sense. If…
Unlike YouTube, IGTV is built around the needs of smartphone users primarily. The service even displays videos in vertical format only because that’s how we hold our smartphones. The IGTV video requirements are also optimized for smartphone users. The maximum file size for a video which is 15…
