Published on: 2025-06-05 10:34:35
A few days ago and fifteen years too late, Meta released an official iPad app for WhatsApp. And while many celebrated the end of one of the most inexplicable software holdouts in App Store history, others asked the most obvious follow-up question: “Thanks! Can we have Instagram next?” Yes, as it turns out. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Meta is now “full steam ahead” in its development and testing of a native Instagram app for the iPad:
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 14:00:26
Ryan Haines / Android Authority I’ve never been a big Reels guy on Instagram. Sure, I’ll spend far too long scrolling through them here and there, but I rarely try my hand at making one. After all, as a photographer for my local run club, it’s easier to string together a slider of photos when I want to post something because I don’t know the first thing about video editing. But then, Instagram came up with a solution. It launched an all-in-one Reels command center, combining tabs for inspirati
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 13:45:39
File this one under “tiny, but significant”: if you default your iPhone camera to 3:4, Instagram will finally let you post exactly what you shot. Instagram’s head, Adam Mosseri announced today on Threads that the app will now support photos in the native 3:4 format, used by most smartphone cameras, including iPhones: “Instagram now supports 3:4 aspect ratio photos – the format that almost every phone camera defaults to. From now on, if you upload a 3:4 image, it’ll now appear just exactly as y
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 17:44:18
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Instagram now supports photos that have a 3:4 aspect ratio, meaning that when you upload a photo with that ratio, “it’ll now appear just exactly as you shot it,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri says in a Threads post. He also notes that “almost every phone camera defaults to” that format. An image from Instagram’s broadcast channel shows how the change makes a difference. You can
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 21:37:00
Jason Howell/ZDNet A recent security patch is leaving Pixel phone owners -- or at least their devices -- pretty drained. Google is working on a fix, though. After the May Pixel patch, many owners have reported that their devices' battery life has plummeted and the devices themselves are running hot. Both official Pixel support forums and Pixel subreddits have seen numerous posts over the past several days. The issue seems to be affecting a variety of devices from the Pixel 6 onward. Also: I c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 22:00:00
As I watch through my computer screen, Tom Bender, the product lead for Instagram’s Edits, places a finger on his smartphone and the software traces an outline around a chubby cat from some meme video. He then takes the furry cutout and drops it over an existing video of himself within the Edits app, adjusting the animal’s opacity to make the cat slightly see-through and ensuring that his own visage in the background stays visible. This ability to fine-tune overlay opacities was just one of man
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 00:11:23
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The Instagram app on Android was causing excessive battery drain, as users reported. Comparisons showed that lately, Instagram was using significantly more battery power than other apps with similar screen-on times. Google has acknowledged the problem and advised updating to Instagram build 382.0.0.49.84, which users say has resolved the battery drain issue. Google has confirmed that the Instagram app has been draining the battery on Android phones, s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 13:30:52
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. If you’ve been having unusual battery drain issues on your Pixel phone lately, Instagram might be to blame. In a new support post, Google says that Instagram has updated its app to address the issue. The fix comes in Instagram version 382.0.0.49.84, which you can grab from Google Play now. If you don’t see the option to update, it could be that you’ve alr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 21:30:22
WhatsApp for iPad has just launched on the App Store. For the first time ever, iPad users can get a native WhatsApp experience on Apple’s tablet. Here are the details. Meta, the owner of WhatsApp, has a history of not offering iPad versions of its social apps. Instagram famously (infamously?) has never been available on iPad. Though supposedly that may change soon. But first, Meta’s long streak of ignoring the iPad ends for one significant app: WhatsApp for iPad is finally here. Strangely, t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 14:00:00
For five weeks, the Federal Trade Commission asked a federal judge to imagine a world where Instagram and WhatsApp flourished outside Meta’s control instead of being acquired by the tech giant. In the sixth and final week of trial, Meta asked Judge James Boasberg to consider that actually, these apps might be as good as they can get. Meta rested its case Wednesday after a brief four days in court (many of its witnesses were also called by the FTC, so it already had the chance to question them i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 01:58:19
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Meta is beginning to test showing 3D photos on Instagram if you’re looking at your feed on a Meta Quest VR headset. “Thanks to our AI view synthesis algorithms, we can transform the existing photos that show up in Instagram feed pixel by pixel – no fancy 3D cameras required,” Meta says in a blog post. “That means flat photos that weren’t originally captured in 3D will automat
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 11:25:56
i was addicted to instagram for about a month. it upended my life enough that i realized that i was living with something new-an undesirable habit. and once i realized this, it seemed like it would be wise to try to address it or at least think about it. easier said than done. i left instagram for about three to four months cold turkey-i left a video saying i was leaving, then uninstalled the app. there’s a few things to talk about here. first, as emily noted to me, this is why kids today can
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 00:40:36
The court summarizes the case: Rodney Woodland, a freelance artist and model, posts semi-naked photographs of himself in different poses on Instagram. Montero Lamar Hill, better known as the recording artist Lil Nas X, also has an Instagram account—and he, too, shares semi-naked photos of himself in varying poses (as one apparently does on Instagram these days). I will note, to the relief of everyone, that I have not posted semi-naked (or Full Monty) photos of myself to Instagram, social media
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 13:47:55
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 09:50:26
is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Meta has filed a motion for judgment on the antitrust case it’s currently fighting in court. The motion argues that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has failed to produce any evidence that Meta unlawfully monopolized part of the social networking market, something the government argues it did through its acquisitions of Instagram
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 12:35:32
Jamie Lee Curtis went straight to the top, and it worked. The legendary star of the Halloween movie franchise managed to get an AI-generated ad showing her likeness removed after sending a public message to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta. The ad had used Curtis' likeness to promote "some bullshit that I didn't authorize, agree to or endorse," Curtis wrote in the DM to Zuckerberg, whose company owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, among other properties. The fake AI commercial used footage fro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 20:27:00
The very real threat of a TikTok ban has caused Americans to search for alternatives to their favorite ByteDance-owned apps -- including the popular video editing software CapCut. So it's no surprise that the recently launched Instagram Edits is capitalizing on consumer uncertainty by adding features from one of its most popular competitors. The latest update for the video editing app added a host of new features to better compete with similar pieces of software. These features mix existing tec
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 17:45:07
If the question, “Who is Meta’s biggest rival?” were on a Family Feud survey, TikTok would likely be the winning answer. In the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust case against the Facebook and Instagram owner, the government’s response probably wouldn’t even make the top 10: a small blockchain-based platform called MeWe. MeWe looks a fair amount like Facebook at first glance, except that you make an account using the Frequency blockchain — which the company explains is a decentralized protoco
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 13:26:47
The long-awaited antitrust trial between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission kicked off on April 14th. Over about two months, DC District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg is hearing arguments about whether then-Facebook illegally monopolized the market for “personal social networking services” through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The FTC first brought the case in late 2020. While it was initially thrown out by the judge, he let an amended version move forward after the governme
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 05:20:22
Years after the Federal Trade Commission sued Meta in a bid to halt acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, the trial that will shape its future is finally underway. The trial kicked off last month when CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand, and it’s expected to last several weeks. Facebook’s 2012 acquisition of Instagram is a central part of the FTC’s case against Meta. The government says Zuckerberg bought Instagram to neutralize it as a competitor. When Instagram’s cofounder and former CEO Kevi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 21:00:30
When Adam Mosseri took over Meta-owned Instagram as CEO in 2018, the app was experiencing what he’d later call “concerning” drops and plateaus in user engagement, thanks partly to fierce competition from a new app: TikTok. Instagram estimated in 2019 that 23 percent of the decline in time spent on Instagram in the US was due to TikTok. Bytedance’s video app kept expanding through the onset of the covid-19 pandemic. “We can’t explain it all, but what’s clear at this point is that we need to adapt
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 09:22:13
Yet more disruptions to reading the posts you want to see. Instagram's Threads app began testing advertisements for its users at the start of this year, and the social platform is already ramping up its monetization efforts. Meta announced at IAB NewFronts that it will start testing video ads on Threads. The company didn't get specific about the size or scale of this preliminary test, but said that a "small number" of advertisers will trial 19:9 or 1:1 video ad creatives placed between typical
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 01:59:19
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Instagram boss Adam Mosseri is on the stand today in Meta’s antitrust trial. In trying to prove the social network is not a monopoly, he shared that the Threads app could have been just a feature inside of Instagram. Meta was working on built-in Threads features for Instagram first to compete with Twitter, which pioneered text-first social me
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 05:20:48
Meta is facing its biggest existential threat in its history. Years after the Federal Trade Commission first sued the social network in an attempt to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, the trial that will shape its future is finally underway. FTC v. Meta began last month when CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand, and is expected to last for several weeks. The FTC is hoping to prove to US District judge James Boasberg that Meta’s acquisitions of its one-time rivals were anticompeti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-17 13:20:48
Meta is facing its biggest existential threat in its history. Years after the Federal Trade Commission first sued the social network in an attempt to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, the trial that will shape its future is finally underway. FTC v. Meta began last month when CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand, and is expected to last for several weeks. The FTC is hoping to prove to US District judge James Boasberg that Meta’s acquisitions of its one-time rivals were anticompeti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 10:37:26
I somehow escaped having an Instagram account. This means that I am oblivious to all of my friends’ fun broadcasted on Instagram. I don’t feel pressured either to update the abstract audience of everyone I ever connected with online, on where I am, what I am doing or who I am hanging out with. I feel very blessed. Still, Instagram hasn’t completely escaped me. And it bugs me. My wife and I live a pretty social life. My wife’s job required us to temporarily move to a place far away from home.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 20:37:26
I somehow escaped having an Instagram account. This means that I am oblivious to all of my friends’ fun broadcasted on Instagram. I don’t feel pressured either to update the abstract audience of everyone I ever connected with online, on where I am, what I am doing or who I am hanging out with. I feel very blessed. Still, Instagram hasn’t completely escaped me. And it bugs me. My wife and I live a pretty social life. My wife’s job required us to temporarily move to a place far away from home.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 21:13:38
is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. TikTok is back in a Washington, DC courthouse discussing the US law that — at least on paper — effectively banned the app. But this time, it’s serving as a witness for the government, not fighting against it. On Wednesday, TikTok’s head of operations and trust and safety Adam Pres
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-26 21:06:18
The long-awaited antitrust trial between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission kicked off on April 14th. Over about two months, DC District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg is hearing arguments about whether then-Facebook illegally monopolized the market for “personal social networking services” through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The FTC first brought the case in late 2020. While it was initially thrown out by the judge, he let an amended version move forward after the governme
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-02 03:00:00
Meta has a lot at stake in the current FTC lawsuit against it. In theory a negative verdict could result in a company breakup. But CEO Mark Zuckerberg once faced an even bigger existential threat. Back in 2006, his investors and even his employees were pressuring him to sell his two-year-old startup for a quick payoff. Facebook was still a college-based social network, and several companies were interested in buying it. The most serious offer came from Yahoo, which offered a stunning $1 billion.
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