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Instagram’s new Pixel effect uses Meta AI to blur anyone you describe in a text prompt. Instagram pitched it at relationship soft launches, and that framing is exactly what set the backlash off.

For $3.99 a month, Instagram Plus shows you how many times each person rewatched your story. The same subscription lets people watch your story without appearing at all. Both features are in the same app, and they quietly cancel each other out.

Instagram’s Following feed strips out the recommendations and shows only accounts you follow. It has existed for years, and it will not stay switched on. Australia wants to force the issue, and Adam Mosseri is arguing the other way.

Instagram is testing clickable links inside post captions for Meta Verified creators, which would finally retire the “link in bio” ritual. The test is small, the cap looks like 10 links a month, and business accounts are shut out.

Zak, Zelda and Cody Williams brought their father’s dormant Instagram account back online to reclaim his likeness from AI generated video. The move works as a cultural statement. Legally, it does almost nothing, and that is the real story.

Instagram redesigned its wordmark for the first time in a decade and half the internet is reading it as Instagzam. The popular explanation is that Gen Z cannot read cursive. That is not why Instagram changed the logo, but it does explain the misreading.

Learn how to use Instagram from scratch: set up your profile, post photos and Reels, use Stories and DMs, follow people, and stay private and safe in 2026.

Instagram introduced Stories on August 2, 2016. Here is the Snapchat backstory, Kevin Systrom’s admission, its explosive growth, and how the feature evolved.

Instagram could soon let users continue their Reels binge even when they’re offline. A new leak suggests the app is…

The cybersecurity company Malwarebytes just noticed something unpleasant happening over on the dark web: Cybercriminals stole the sensitive information of…