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Instagram profile grids are going to feature rectangles instead of squares


Profiles are about to look different.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. “I think people will, over the long run, be excited that more of their photos and more of their videos are actually visible as intended in the profile as opposed to aggressively cropped,” Mosseri said. Mosseri’s justification is pretty similar to what he said in August when Instagram confirmed it was conducting a “limited test” of the change.

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Instagram's experimental profile grid has rectangular images instead of squares