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Format Wars: Instagram Adds Portrait And Landscape Modes To Your Feed

• http://www.popsci.com, By Xavier Harding

Instagram now supports portrait and landscape photos in its app, meaning you'll start seeing more rectangular photos in your feed.

Since the app's inception, Instagram has defaulted to—and only allowed—"square" (3:2) photographs in its app. Much like its filters, the default aspect ratio was meant to mimic Polaroids of yesteryear. Now, the picture sharing service is finally letting its users upload images that don't adhere to the odd format.

Taking photos within the app will continue to default to square-shaped pictures, but photos imported from other apps will preserve their look. Instead of the letterbox view, the Instagram photo feed will adjust in size accordingly.

"It turns out that nearly one in five photos or videos people post aren't in the square format," said Instagram in a statement. "Now, when choosing a photo or video, you can tap the format icon to adjust the orientation to portrait or landscape instead of square."


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