Instagram has pulled the Boomerang and Hyperlapse apps from the Apple and Google app stores. While the company was expected to wind down the IGTV app, the removal of these two apps was a surprise. [Read More]
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Kim Kardashian has been sued for posting a photo of the wrong man in an appeal to her 370 million Instagram followers last year. [Read More]
Photographers rejoice: a new photo-sharing app is now available on the App Store and it has nothing to do with Meta or the head of Doge. [Read More]
A new photo app called "Firsties" is designed to help parents safely share their kids' photos amid rising child privacy concerns on social media. [Read More]
A new photo sharing app called Flashes is about to be rolled out and it is closely linked with the Twitter alternative Bluesky. [Read More]
Instagram alternative Pixelfed launched a mobile app last week on Android and landed on iOS today. The decentralized, ad-free, and open-source platform, which aims to offer "a fresh take on photo sharing," has surged in popularity and even run afoul of Meta moderation. [Read More]
Instagram will soon roll out a new feature globally that will allow everyone on Instagram to perform a "Recommendations reset," which makes the algorithm forget everything it thinks it knows about you and start from scratch. [Read More]
Today at Meta Connect, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads showed off a technology that is capable of fully recreating influencers as AI figures that can be spoken to as if they were the real person. [Read More]