Instagram to begin testing 9:16 photos ‘in a week or two’
Right now, tall videos are a possibility to have on Instagram, but not tall photos. Mosseri stated that the company plans to start treating videos and photos equally.
The maximum right now is around 4:5 photos when displaying vertical images. However, slimmer, taller 9:16 photos will fill the entire screen of a smartphone when you scroll through your Instagram feed. You can post such tall photos, but only in Stories right now. Instagram will now be working on giving you the possibility to choose to have a tall photo published on there.
After those complaints, the social media platform rolled back this change of interface. However, it seems set on having tall photos, but this time, it won’t be a mandatory change for everything on the platform.
As with other features in a testing period, this one is still not part of an official update. There is no official date set for a public release just yet.
