Instagram is one of the most used and popular social apps among the new generation. The application is all about capturing and posting pictures. People also make use of the app for the expansion of their businesses.
Recent news has been telling that the app is coming with new features and options that will make the app quite interesting to use and convenient for newcomers. These new transitions are making the app more advanced and developed.
Users are not going to feel disappointed with the new changes it is going to come up with. If a user gains around 400 followers on Instagram, the chances of getting more story views may be increased. This is an incredible feature of the app.
Testing of the new feature of Instagram
The application of Instagram is testing out its new format for its Stories option. This testing takes us back to the old photographic process by giving a selector wheel to select the options you want to make use of. Jane Manchun Wong, the social media code hacker, spotted this new layout. She noted that the modes of the camera in this new format have been lessened going from eight to only three.
However, no such option has been eliminated. The options have just been classified into new elements. For instance, in the Stories camera, at the present, there are choices like Rewind, Boomerang, and Superzoom queued at the screen’s bottom. In this layout, it is noted by Wong that each is now accessible under the options of Create or Normal, with Live being in its own mode.
The Normal option captures modes that include Rewind and Superzoom along with the AR effects tools of Instagram. You can find the sticker tools and text options under the Create category.
The rounded control wheel feature
That flow implies that the Instagram users may require to scroll around many times in the process of creation for the addition of all the effects that they may want. This may get the users getting used to the layout. But, things have become a bit easier and convenient with the rounded selector. A useful addition though in the app if Instagram gets ahead with the idea.
Many users have highlighted that this layout is already in use by another famous photo capture application called Obscura. It is a more developed and advanced application related to photography. It is majorly famous among users who willingly pay extra for the capture of better images. It costs $4.99. And, also it has the same wheel that Instagram is now testing.
Competition among the apps
It has been seen that both Facebook and Instagram have been copying the popular features from the competitor applications in the past. Though it’s annoying to see bigger tech platforms utilizing their resources and scale to surpass the smaller ones, it does make sense in the case of Stories format options in Instagram.
The process of the control wheel is much appealing, interactive, and responsive, making things easier for the newcomers and helping in the expansion of its usage.