Layout from Instagram 4+

I downloaded layout in 2019 and it quickly became my go-to app for quick collage making for Instagram and other social media platforms. It worked great until a year or two ago when it starting glitching out and closing on opening. I thought it was dead until the other day when I saw some of the other review comments. It’s working smooth again and as I used it before, it’s great for making quick picture collages without overkill on menus, navigation, and things that slow some similar apps down. Plus it’s integration with Instagram (and Facebook) makes sharing smooth and efficient! You can also use some other sharing options and/or save to your phone camera to share on other socials, text friends, or email. 4 stars easy! I’d give it 5 stars if it didn’t die for that extended time but when it was working and if it stays working, it’s usefulness is 5/5.

I have been using Layout on and off since 2014….which makes me feel old now realizing that was ten years ago :’) anyways, this app used to be my go-to for making collages. It’s so clean and easy to use and allows you to make seamless collages in seconds. Only thing that hinders that though is the CONSTANT crashing. It’s rendered itself useless at this point. I literally cant even choose my photos before it goes back to the Home Screen. I get it’s an old app and hasn’t been updated in years, but you’d think since they would atleast fix the bugs that make it crash ? It’s obvious by the reviews hundreds of people still use this app (or atleast try to) so why not give it a quick fix? I always come back to this app to make my collages but then quickly get turned away when it crashes within 30 seconds of creating a collage and then I have to resort to another less appealing and hard to use app. I don’t usually complain about these things, let alone write reviews and my life will continue on whether this app is fixed or not, of course, I just think they’re throwing something really good away by not updating this app anymore.

I loved this app, and I’ve had it forever. I had it on my iphone xs and now my iphone 12 mini BUT for as long as ive had it, my instagram kept crashing, overheating my phone, and draining my battery. As well as i kept getting hacked or having random logins from other countries (mainly russia).

I thought the problem would resolve once i bought a new phone, but it followed me. I couldn’t be on the instagram app for longer than 30 seconds before it crashed. Then today, i was using this layout app to edit something and the layout app CRASHED. it did it several times before it occurred to me that this is the problem.

So I deleted this app, deleted my instagram app, restarted my phone and then re-downloaded instagram (but not this layout app) and now the problem is 100% gone. No more overheating, no more battery drains, no more crashing instagram. Im literally shocked that it took me years to figure this out. Disappointed because the app did what i needed it to, but in the process was disrupting my instagram app.