Instagram profile grids are going to feature rectangles instead of squares

Instagram’s floor plan grids will show contented arsenic rectangles alternatively of squares arsenic portion of a alteration rolling retired “over the weekend,” Instagram main Adam Mosseri said successful an Instagram Story connected Friday.

“I cognize immoderate of you really for illustration your squares. And quadrate photos are benignant of the practice of Instagram. But astatine this point, astir of what’s uploaded, some photos and videos, are vertical successful their orientation,” Mosseri said. It’s a “bummer to overly harvest them,” he added.

Mosseri recognizes that the alteration mightiness beryllium a “bit of a pain,” but he thinks that it’s a “transitional” pain. “I deliberation group will, complete the agelong run, beryllium excited that much of their photos and much of their videos are really visible arsenic intended successful the floor plan arsenic opposed to aggressively cropped,” Mosseri said.

Mosseri’s justification is beautiful akin to what he said successful August erstwhile Instagram confirmed it was conducting a “limited test” of the change.