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Facebook's Instagram is a convenient way to share photos as well as short videos, but for many reasons it can be smart to have multiple personas on the service. Here's how to add additional profiles on Apple's iPhone and switch between them.

Instagram on Thursday updated made good on promises to incorporate wide color gamut support for iPhone 7 owners in a backend software update that also includes compatibility with Apple's Live Photos.

Version 9.7 has some new features that give your stories a little extra oomph.

Stop ordering Seamless and start cooking healthy meals.

The nostalgic logo is out, with the new app icon embracing the trendy move to flat design and sharp colors.

Instagram wants to show you the best videos without completely destroying the sanctity of your main feed, so today it overhauled the Explore page with a slew of new video channels. Most importantly, there’s a personalized “Videos You Might Like” feed. There’s also themed channels like one for Coachella, and feature spotlights on specific creators like the ones…

Two months after letting advertisers extend their videos to 60 seconds, Instagram is granting the same privilege to regular users. Instagram videos, which have been limited to 15 seconds since they were introduced in June 2013, can now extend to a full minute. Like its corporate parent, Instagram has been gradually transforming its feed from a stream of static images to a more lucrative collection of videos. In the past six months, the time Instagram users spent watching videos has increased 40 percent,...

Photo sharing service Instagram on Tuesday announced plans to apply an optimization algorithm to user feeds that, much like the system used by parent company Facebook, reorders posts based on a variety of performance metrics.

This list is a look at the best photography apps ever made for the iPhone, based on our list of the best 100 iPhone apps of all time.

Apple on Wednesday published its annual Best of 2015 feature for the App Store, highlighting the company's own picks as well as overall bestsellers.

Apple released its latest and greatest iPhone on Friday with an all-new pressure-sensitive 3D Touch input system that introduces novel user interactions like "peek and pop," Quick Actions, added gesture control and more. To help get new iPhone 6s owners started, we put together a list of the best apps that take advantage of the handset's unique capabilities.

According to fresh statistics from analytics firm App Annie published on Wednesday, social media giant Facebook is responsible for four of the top ten most downloaded iOS apps of all time, with Google and Apple titles in tow.

Job-based social network LinkedIn began rolling out a redesigned messaging service on Tuesday, incorporating the look and features of popular chat apps like Facebook Messenger. Instagram, meanwhile, made several upgrades to its Direct messaging and sharing functions.

One in five photos or videos on Instagram show up with annoying whitespace around them because people use other apps to letterbox their landscape or portrait imagery to fit in Instagram’s square cropping. So today, Instagram for iOS and Android is dropping the requirement that all photos and videos be squares. Now when users upload photos, they can pinch or tap a format button on the left…

Goodbye, awkwardly cropped square photos!

New Instagram filters and emoji are always popular, so Instagram combined the two in Monday's update for iOS.

Some good news for Instagram fans: three new photo filters are arriving today, and Instagram plans to keep adding more in the near future. The app has gone for long periods of time without adding new filters — in December, it added five new ones after a two-year break — but we apparently won't be seeing extended gaps like that any longer. Instagram intends to add new filters "more regularly going forward," which should be music to the ears of its users who don't like having to outsource their...

Apple launched its first wearable with an App Store filled with more than 3,000 third-party titles, a figure expected to grow exponentially in the months ahead. AppleInsider offers a look at some of the first offerings.

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Instagram is making it easier to keep tabs on posts from friends, celebrities or other users you want to follow more closely.

In preparation for Apple’s first wearable device, mobile developers have been busy creating all kinds of applications designed especially for the Apple Watch’s small screen. The watch, which is said by early testers to be so usable that they found they were no longer pulling out their iPhone as often, allows you to interact with a variety of apps and notifications, ranging…

Instagram is taking a leaf from another vine — quite literally — after it updated its app to make videos on its service loop, just as they do on Twitter’s own video service, Vine.

Instagram has tweaked its video settings so that clips automatically replay in users' streams — a change that will be mainly welcomed by #brands keen to get as many views for their ads as possible. Users can choose to have videos preload on Wi-Fi only to save data, but this is not the default option, and there's no way to disable autoplaying altogether....

Apple on Tuesday released its annual "Best of 2014" list for the App Store's most-downloaded and highest-grossing titles, revealing so-called "freemium" games as the year's biggest money-makers.

In a pair of app updates on Tuesday, Google rolled out an update to its Google Drive app with support for iOS 8 extensibility, which lets users upload documents and files to the cloud from outside sources, while Instagram introduced five new photo filters and management tools.

The hottest free apps on iOS and Android, in one convenient, interactive graphic.

With thousands of apps at our fingertips, they can quickly overcrowd our screens. Solve your problem by taking 15 minutes to clean out the jumble of app clutter and find an organizational structure that works for you.

People come to instagram today to post their photos but haven’t come back to edit their photos” Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom tells me. So today Instagram is adding sliders to control 10 new photo effects and the intensity of it’s existing filters. These give everyone the power of desktop editing suites and specialty mobile apps, which Systrom says “creates a…

Social networking heavyweight Instagram on Thursday added a new direct messaging feature designed to counter the popularity of upstart competitor Snapchat, while gesture-based keyboard Fleksy can now be integrated into third-party apps thanks to a new SDK.

Instagram is turning its successful photo and video-sharing service into a communication platform, with the introduction of private messaging. It’s called Instagram Direct, and will be available with version 5.0 of the mobile app, rolling out to iOS and Android users today. A release date for the Windows Phone app, however, wasn’t disclosed....

Developers worldwide are using Canada as a testing ground for apps before rolling them out to other markets.

Instagram today updated its Android and iOS apps with new features for both photos and videos. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play and Apple’s App Store....

As Apple's App Store nears 50 billion downloads, the company reveals the all-time most popular apps for iPhone and iPad.

Look at Instagram. Now look at me. Now look at the App Store’s iOS 7 updates. Now me. Now look at Instagram again. Notice anything different? Sure you do. Look harder, maybe?...

Instagram today updated its app to fit in with iOS 7. Like Twitter, Instagram hasn't given its app a total revamp, but has instead applied a fresh coat of paint, flattened its top navigation bar, and placed a much greater emphasis on content in its user interface. Images in the app's news feed, for example, now span the entire width of the iPhone's screen — a 4.5 percent increase in size. On profile pages, interface chrome surrounding text like "posts" and "followers" has been removed, and profile...

Instagram for iOS now includes the option to automatically straighten up your photos before you share them. Clicking on the icon in the app's post-processing menu uses data from your phone's accelerometer and gyroscope to automatically work out the optimum angle for a straight photo. After your image is aligned, you'll have the option to tweak the exact angle using a sliding scale....

Instagram has been adding new features to its app to help users create better photos. It’s no longer enough for it to be just another photo-sharing social network — we’ve moved past that. But in order for it to scale, Instagram needs to add new tools and features to not only enhance the quality of images shared, but also to maintain the appeal of its service....

At this point, there’s no need for me to explain the popularity of smartphone photography or how it has changed the way we share our daily lives. Apple’s competitors continue to release handsets that offer new and improved camera sensors – the Nokia Lumia 1020 and Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom being the most recent – but the iPhone has always been the device to beat....

Instagram is doing everything in its power to point out the differences between its videos and Vines. Now you can import videos to the app from your Camera Roll, a feature Instagram CEO Kevin...

Instagram has just been updated to version 4.1 — the first major release since video landed in the Facebook-owned photo-sharing app....

Video on Instagram just got a big upgrade. Instagram added video functionality to the popular photo-sharing app a little over a month ago, but with version 4.1, launching Wednesday, the app brings with it several new features, including the ability to import video from your phone's gallery. See also: 25 Most-Followed Users on Instagram [PICS] At launch, Instagram only allowed you to upload video that was recorded within the app.

Apple's App Store remade the world of software and mobile and, as I see it, all for the better.

It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck -- Mashable takes care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps. This week, we found an app that grants you free admission to 23 of the nation's greatest zoos and museums, and another that helps you take fantastic pictures of your adventure after you arrive.

Instagram today updated its iOS app with minor but important changes and improvements. You can download the new version now directly from Apple’s App Store....

With its latest update, Instagram for iOS makes it possible to shoot photos (and video) in landscape orientation. Because of the square format, viewers won’t be able to notice the difference, but it does make your iPhone or iPod touch handle a little bit more like a traditional camera. (Your iPad will handle like an iPad, but sideways.) Unfortunately, there’s just one problem with the implementation — you can’t use the volume button as a shutter release, which defeats the purpose somewhat. Additionally,...

Instagram on Friday rolled out an update bringing two feature additions and various bug fixes, including support for photo and video taking while an iPhone is in landscape view.

Instagram today finally unveiled its anticipated video service and served it with a kicker, great for those of us with shaky hands. It launched Cinema: a way to stabilize the video captured with the iPhone. Right now this is an iPhone-only app. And for good reason. Since the launch of the iPhone 5, Android phone makers have embraced higher quality cameras than Apple with many flagship devices…

Instagram just launched video functionality. Glorious, 15-second, editable video functionality. Complete with image stabilization. So what does this mean for Vine?

The battle in the short-form video sharing space is heating up after Facebook announced it was bringing video to Instagram, unleashing war on Twitter and its 6-second video app Vine....

Just over a year after buying the Instagram photo sharing service for $1 billion, Facebook has added video sharing features that are similar to Vine, the video-only sharing app acquired by Twitter, and Lightt, an independent video sharing service.

At an event at its Menlo Park headquarters on Thursday, Facebook announced Video on Instagram for iPhone and Android, which lets you shoot 15-second videos, apply filters, and share them to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other sites....

Instagram for iOS has just been updated with support for video. Android users are not yet seeing the update, but it is expected to arrive shortly. iPhone owners can download the updated app here....

Facebook announced today that it’s bringing video to Instagram. The service is available starting today for both iOS and Android. Users can record up to 15 seconds of video and has 13 special filters....

Facebook today announced video for Instagram, saying it aimed to make video as easy to create and share as possible. The overall look and feel of the app are the same, but next to the main capture icon is now a video camera icon. The user taps the button to begin recording up to 15 seconds of video. It will become available for iOS and Android simultaneously today....

There are more than 300,000 iPad apps currently available in Apple's App Store -- with all those options, how do you find what you're looking for without wasting your hard-earned cash? SEE ALSO: The 15 Best Free iPad Games To help you out, we've compiled a list of the 25 best free iPad apps that you can download at no cost, right now.

Apple’s App Store recently hit its 50 billionth download. Since its launch in July 2008, the store has been the go-to place for mobile apps. To this day, mobile developers often choose to release their apps here first. Popular from the start, just seven months after the App Store’s launch, the store surpassed one million third party apps, many of those free.

The App Store saw two long-awaited moves on Thursday when beleaguered movie rental company Blockbuster finally released an iOS app for streaming on demand videos, and photo sharing app Instagram beefed up its own offering with support for photo tagging

Today Instagram released version 3.5 of its iOS and Android applications. Key to the release is a new feature dubbed ‘Photos Of You’ that tracks the pictures that you have been snapped in; it’s a running compendium of images that you are featured in....

The jury may still be out on whether GIF is pronounced with a hard G or a soft G. But here's one thing that's certain: the popular GIF-sharing app GifBoom has just gotten its biggest update yet. What exactly makes this update the biggest yet for GifBoom? For starters, you can now add voice and music backgrounds to your GIFs. A new step in the GIF-posting process has been added, and this lets you choose between recording your voice or selecting some music to attach to your GIF.

With smartphone cameras and their dedicated apps—primarily one app called Instagram—photo filters have emerged not only as a way of life, but as almost a de rigueur aspect of mobile shooting and sharing....

The iPhone, land of endless choice. First, you’ll want to grab Twitter, Kindle, Facebook, Find My iPhone, Shazam (it's still a magical thing), and Apple’s Remote app for controlling iTunes remotely. But then you get to the hard questions. Which to-do app to get? Which map alternative is worth downloading over Apple’s default? Is there a weather app that offers the perfect balance of hourly updates and animated doppler imagery? What are the best games to get to avoid the family during the inevitable...

It started with an assumption, really. Snapchat, a photo-sharing application that auto-destroys images seconds after being opened, launched in September 2011 with zero media coverage. A homegrown product, built by two Stanford guys, grew to now see over 50 million snaps per day today. In fact, Facebook launched a clone of the app just Friday. It wasn’t until the company made its first…

Following the recent brouhaha over changes to Instagram's terms of service, the company is releasing an update to its iOS client today that adds a new filter (Mayfair), improved language support, and the usual gamut of performance improvements. Another thing version 3.4.0 includes is a new UI bug that makes private photos appear to be viewable by anyone — a sweeping change that would further inflame tensions between the company and its users if it were real....

Instagram may have been under a lot of pressure of late but the Facebook-owned photo service has updated its iOS app with a new filter — Mayfair — and the return of the option to share photos from any album, rather than just a device’s camera roll. There’s also support for Facebook iOS 6 integration, which brings single sign-on support for those yet to connect the two services together....

Instagram released an update to its photo-sharing and filtering app Monday, delivering some highly requested features to iOS and Android users for the first time. You'll no longer need to open up Camera+ or Snapseed to crop and scale your photo; both can now be done in Instagram with a grid guide overlay.

Kevin Systrom is the CEO and co-founder of Instagram, the popular photo-sharing and filtering app for iPhone and Android. His company sold to Facebook for close to a billion dollars back in April. Prior to Instagram, he interned at Odeo under the future Twitter co-founders, and worked on consumer products like Gmail at Google for two years. Systrom took a few minutes to talk to The Verge about his favorite people to follow on Instagram, the longevity of image filtering, and his first memory of the...

Instagram for iPhone has been updated to support iOS 6 and the new iPhone 5, fixing the awkward centering stopgap that we’ve had to deal with for…a whole 4 days…

The new big happy Facebook family is certainly on the ball with iPhone 5, delivering and update not only for its own app, but also one for new subsidiary Instagram designed to work on the new iPhone and iOS 6. The update now ensures that you’ll be able to check out your photos using the iPhone 5′s full 4-inches of glory.

Kicking off this week’s must-have apps roundup is a brand new update to Instagram — the world’s most popular photo sharing service — that introduces an improved user interface and new features. We’ve also got a new Food Network app that every foodie should have, the official WWE app for wrestling fans, and a great educational app for the iPad that promises to teach your little ones how to write capital letters quickly and efficiently.

If you look at where Instagram started, you couldn’t really call it humble beginnings. But with the 3.0 release of the app today, it certainly has taken on an enhanced…

Instagram just launched a huge update for all its apps today. Version 3.0 can plot all your images on a map based on the location in which you snapped each one. The result? A totally different way to browse through photos. Here's what's new: It's already live in the App Store and Google Play. It's a really wonderful update—the ability to view photos in different formats a huge improvement to the user experience. And it's definitely a reason to love Instagram all over again.

Instagram 1.0 was about sharing photos using creative filters; 2.0 was about speed; Instagram 3.0, launching today on Android and iPhone, plots all your photos on a map of the world, creating an entirely new way to browse someone's photos on the service. "One of the biggest problems in social media is that you often post things that are very ephemeral," Instagram Founder and CEO Kevin Systrom told The Verge. "Things live for a couple hours and then they float off into the ether." Instagram 3.0 was...

Instagram is going live with version 3.0 of its iPhone and Android apps Thursday. If version 2.0 was about new tools to develop photos -- Instagram introduced a slew of...

Version 2.5.0 of Instagram for iOS and Android* was released for download today. The update is not wholly transformative, but it brings to the already popular app a few incremental advancements that improve the overall experience of the app. • Revamped profile tab: the layout is a lot cleaner and more intuitively arranged. • Search for users and tags in the Explore tab: this makes it super easy to find and follow your friends. • Improvements to commenting: thanks! • User search autocompletes...

Instagram for iPhone just hit version 2.5, which marks the first time the app has been updated since Facebook agreed to acquire it back in April. Instagram 2.5 is mostly a visual update, featuring a new Explore tab for browsing hashtags and usernames, search autocomplete, and a revamped profile. In a few moments of using the app, loading pictures and comments appears to be far speedier than before. Opening the camera is also lightning quick, but perhaps what you'll notice the most is the new "Explore"...

Now that Instagram is closer to becoming an official part of Facebook, it’s making some changes within the app. A new iOS update hit the App Store today, and it…

“Explore: photos taken nearby”. Instagram may be looking to follow in Foursquare’s footsteps and give you more to do than just post and browse the main feed with today’s iOS app update that merges Popular with search to create its own Explore tab. It also added new Facebook sharing controls, visual and speed improvements, better commenting, autocomplete for search, and revamped profiles. For now you can only search for users and hashtags, but I envision Explore blossoming to let you home in on photos fr...

We’ve already given you a list of tips and tricks to get the most out of your smartphone photography, recommended cool accessories that will enhance your shots, but what we…

I guess all of the hue and cry about quitting Instagram over its acquisition by Facebook turned out to be a bunch of hot air, because it hasn’t stopped people…

Let’s face it — there are too many camera and photo sharing apps out there, and not enough time in the day to give each one of them a try. If you’ve been mulling over which camera app deserves your love and affection, or just have no earthly idea where to start, take a gander below at some of your best options for shooting and sharing your life on the go.

The iPad for Business Series is supported by LogMeIn. Get remote access to your PC or Mac from any device, anywhere -- for free. The iPad is an excellent business tool,...

Apple has launched a countdown to its 25 billionth app downloaded from the App Store, but more is at stake than the glory of a historic download. The company is giving...

The iPhone photo-sharing app Instagram has never been shy about incorporating new capabilities, and it just received a 2.1 update that adds a UI makeover, a new filter, and an HDR-inspired feature called "Lux." We spent some time with the app to check out the new features, and to see how Lux stacks up to the iPhone's own built-in HDR. The most obvious change with the update is the user interface. Gone are the iOS-style tabs and oversized camera button. In their place is a row of stylized icons. They're...

Take a look at your App Store icon, iPhone users, and if you're an avid Instagram user, there's a big surprise for you inside. Instagram just received a big upgrade, and...

Rejoice iPhone photogs, the newest version of Instagram is now available! The immensely popular app has just updated to version 2.1 and boasts some impressive new features. Among them, 2.1 offers a UI redesigned for simplicity with an improved header and menu buttons, a new "Sierra" filter, and Lux—an automatic process that brightens and sharpens dark, drab photos with a single tap not unlike HDR. Instagram is still free and available for download at iTunes.

The apps market continued to grow in 2011, with millions of apps now available across the major mobile platforms. With so many apps out there, it…

Apple released the list of its best and most popular apps on Thursday. The App Store Rewind features 20 categories from Travel to Games, and names the top five apps of...

Apple released its iTunes Rewind 2011 and App Store Rewind 2011 today, the company’s annual lists detailing of the top selling apps, music, TV shows, movies and podcasts for the year. This year, the biggest winner on the apps front was Angry Birds, which ran away with the number one spot on the iPhone and iPad in all categories except top free iPhone app, which was awarded to Facebook. Apple also selects its own favorite applications, and one of our preferred apps, Instagram, won the honor of being App...

So you’re getting an iPhone 4S. Fantastic. But with more than 500,000 apps in the App Store, finding the best ones is no easy task. Mashable is…

Six days ago, Instagram pushed version 2.0 live in the App Store. A big time upgrade with a focus on the camera, co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom expected signups to pick up some significant steam. But it was more like they caught fire. Over the weekend, Instagram was seeing a signup rate of over one new user a second — roughly 75 per minute, Systrom says. This pushed them past the 10 million user milestone.

Instagram has today made a ton of improvements to its iPhone app. These include the ability to save high-resolution images suitable for printing, view your filters and tilt-shift effects live,…

It was exactly one year ago today that I wrote up my initial lengthy preview of Instagram. I had a feeling that when it launched, it was going to be big. I underestimated it. Fast forward to today. Instagram is just about to hit 10 million users. They are the nimble upstart that has become the gold standard in the mobile social photo space . Everyone is gunning for them. And so it’s fitting that today, a year after my initial post, they’re unveiling version 2.0 of their app.

Photo sharing app Instagram is one of the major success stories from the app world, notching up a cool million downloads within three months of launch in October 2010. Today it…

Tour diaries: They are the satisfying sustenance required by every hardcore music fan to feed a band addiction. A glimpse into the backstage, on-tour-bus life of one's...

Until now, you could only see a real-time stream of photos on the Instagram app. With a new update pushed out, however, you can now see all the photos you've ever "liked," plus store profile photos in your iPhone's photo library as well as in Instagram.

It's little wonder that Instagram, a leading iPhone application for stylizing and sharing photos on the web, is proving so popular among street style photographers, some...

Instagram has updated their super popular photo sharing app to include the ability to double-tap a photo to like it, autocomplete usernames and a new interactive comment screen. The new…

Instagram, the seven-month-old mobile photo-sharing app for iPhone, surpassed more than 4.25 million users this week. A new version of the application now shows its...

iPhone photography has come a long way in the last three years since the advent of the App Store. Every once in a while we like to make our way…

There's no question that most bands spend a good portion of the year on the road, crammed in sweaty vans, rolling from city to city in the dark of night. Young the Giant...

Instagram, the popular (and ever getting more popular) photo sharing app, just got a nice new update for SXSW (because if you've got a "cool" app and you're not updating it for SXSW, then you might as well just shut down shop altogether). First, for photos, there's a new tilt-shift effect, resulting in those sort of miniature train model-looking scenes that you're probably used to from HP advertisements and Vimeo videos and the like. It's Instagram's first foray into an effect, per se, as opposed to a...

For all the talk of group messaging apps being the breakout hits at SXSW this year, most people are overlooking another genre: mobile photo-sharing apps. But that’s probably because a few of those apps already are pretty big hits. Take Instagram, for example. The app already has well over 2 million users, even though it’s not even six months old yet. For some context, when Foursquare successfully launched at SXSW two years ago, they left town with just 5,000 users. But just because Instagram has had som...

Giving your photos a ‘professional’ touch, or even just jazzing them up a bit, used to mean moving them to a desktop computer. The quality of image processing on mobile…

If you're planning to grab the newly available Verizon-flavored iPhone, chances are you're new to the wondrous world of iOS, and therefore in need of a solid list of...

From apps to podcasts, Facebook to Twitter, Flickr to YouTube, and more, mainstream media has embraced a number of new, technology-driven -- and often social -- platforms...

If you like taking pics on your device as much as we do, then you’re always looking for apps that will help you produce stunning photographs. We’ve provided 5 iOS…

Instagram.  The free app exclusive to the iPhone and iPod touch is described by its creators as the “fun & quirky way to share your life with friends through a…

Ah, the day of turkey-stuffing, gourd decorating, belt loosening and political conversations is upon us, Thanksgiving is here. And what else could you be more grateful for than your precious…

There's an ocean of apps out there. Whether you just got your iPhone and are feeling adrift or you're a salty old dog seeing what you might've missed, here are the absolutely essential apps. Twitter: Twitter thankfully didn't make too many changes when they gobbled up the already-great Tweetie 2 from Atebits—same clean interface, same Tweet swiping, and the same it-feels-so-good pull to refresh mechanism. Free. Facebook: The new, panel-based interface takes a little getting used to, but once you're...

Featured in our favorite iOS applications this week is the free content sharing app from Posterous that lets you post any mix of text, photos, and videos instantly to the web, directly from your iPhone. Phoster is also featured in our must-have application list this week: it’s a universal app for both iPhone and iPad that lets your create stunning posters and invitations. With loads of templates to get you started and various effects and decorations, you’ll be able to produce stylish results in no time ...

+2 for dead simple, “why didn’t I think of that?” browser-based apps. Last night we brought you the brilliant Tumbl.in and today we’re bringing you the equally brilliant Gramcentral, which…