Instagram 12+

Instagram used to be much better in the past years, BUT now with the talk of new updates like “moving the highlights into the grid” is getting ridiculous. Highlights are a lovely feature to have before your followers and maybe soon to be followers can look through them and have an idea what you post on your account and what your hobbies are, what your up to on days out and more. But as they talk about updated the profile and making a separate tab for highlights doesn’t seem good, as current followers and/or soon to be followers will see your posts first instead of your highlights and highlights chance won’t go to your highlights first and could maybe not engage with your account at all leading to Instagram being like a ghost town application. Instagram and its CEO won’t listen to people that don’t like the updates they are doing to the app and won’t add features that we are actually looking for and will actually use. Yes, it’s still good as you can still message, interact with current followers but it may be harder to get noticed but new potential followers, and brands/small businesses that are on Instagram will have a harder time getting new customer. Unfortunately, it’s what happens and all we (the users of Instagram) can do is complain about the updates - like the highlights - to hopefully get Instagram to change them back?

Recently, Instagram has decided to copy half of tik tok’s features - this includes their ‘reels’, which are just incredibly annoying and out of sync with the rest of the app. I preferred instagram’s old saving method where you could hold down the save option icon and add a video to multiple save section folders, OVER the new way of saving, which is to press the three dots at the top of the video and select save and THEN add to a collection, meaning you can only add the video to one collection, unless you want to spend the time going all the way to the other collections you wanted the post in and going into its settings and adding the post manually. Tik tok actually has (imo) a worse saving system anyways, so Instagram copying it is a very strange and annoying move. Also, Instagram is forcing every video posted to be a reel, unless of-course it’s a multiple media post - which in turn people often feel forced to post, instead of a one picture/video post, as to avoid the post being a reel. This can be annoying in itself as Instagram doesn’t show the amount of views on a multi image/video post, only the amount of likes. Instagram, please stop trying to copy tik tok and listen to what your users actually want. It’s not reels.

I hate the new update and don’t know where to complain cause you don’t have a feedback thing and I don’t want to complain in the help centre… but that worked last time so maybe I will… >:( I am a loyal instagramorion and have been for these last five ish in 2022 you used my account to test your new full screen post layout… thing and I was overcome with despair and I told you that Instagram is my app my one app that I have curated that I have saved countless wonderful posts on throughout the years and your update made my experience an awful one and there was no longer any joy for me there… and you reverted the layout it was just a test after all but this this? I don’t know if it’s affecting every user but it sure is affecting me this infernal full screen post layout this isn’t what we wanted it’s never what we wanted you can keep your reels (but maybe not the awful comment sections seriously do something about that) but our posts are our posts and I’ll fight for them this is my app gosh darn it! And if you won’t let me have my posts the way I’ve had them all this time what am I supposed to do my heart will be empty and my time on the gram will be cold and sad perhaps my days as an instagrammer commenting and laughing and watching the stories will be over and all because of you and your full screen layout it’s just not who you are it’s not why we fell in love take anything …but not this