Pinch-to-zoom is the go-to gesture for zooming into a picture on any device with a touchscreen, however, no matter what device you have this gesture has been useless on Instagram ever since the service was launched many years ago. That’s because Instagram has never allowed users to zoom in on photos inside its app, but that changes today. Instagram has announced today that its users on iOS can now zoom in on photos inside the app.
Instagram users on iOS can now pinch-to-zoom in on both photos and videos in the main feed. This feature will also work on pictures in profile pages as well as on the Explore tab.
It’s great that the company is finally enabling one of the most basic smartphone features in its app but it’s just limited to iOS right now. Instagram is yet to confirm when this feature is going to be available for Android users, though it goes without saying that pinch-to-zoom support will eventually be added to the Android app as well.
Instagram has made significant changes over the past few months, including but not limited to a completely revamped icon, longer videos, as well as a Stories feature that it copied from Snapchat. Support for zooming in is a change that will certainly be welcomed by users across the globe.