Instagram Updates iOS App With Pinch-to-Zoom Ability on Photos

A small but noticeable update has hit Instagram today, with the company launching the ability to zoom in on photos within the iOS app. With pinch-to-zoom support, users can get better close-up views of Instagram posts within their feed, on other users' profiles, and in the Explore tab.

Today we’re bringing ZOOM to Instagram on iOS! Pinch to zoom on photos & videos in feed, on profiles and on Explore pic.twitter.com/j1g4JQozK2 — Instagram (@instagram) August 31, 2016

Users will be able to zoom in on videos in each of these locations as well, but the update is only rolling out to iOS Instagram users right now, with no word yet regarding when it might debut on Android. You can download Instagram from the iOS App Store for free. [Direct Link]

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Top Rated Comments

JonneyGee

125 months ago

Great news! This might seem insignificant to many people, but this is probably the biggest feature missing from the app except an iPad version.

Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)

S.B.G

125 months ago

Hmmm.... I just checked and found an update to Instagram, installed it and no zoom yet, and its not listed in the description. They must be rolling it out as another update...

Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)

wdowell

125 months ago

Pinch to zoom on already low res photos? That's going to look fab..

Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)

LiE_

125 months ago

#innovation

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netsped

125 months ago

You might need to kill the app and open it again. I think it's a bad implementation of pinch to zoom because it will not stay zoomed. It's more like a magnify thing.

Not to exciting.

Edit. And yeah, photos look low quality when magnifying them.

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)