Great News for all IGers! You will now be able to upload portrait & landscape images and videos on Instagram without the use of an external app! Cool? Absolutely!
Ever since its inception, Instagram has always allowed clicking and uploading images (and later videos) in the 1:1 square aspect ratio. Like Twitter’s 140 character limit, it was a part of the platform’s appeal, or a drawback, depending upon how you chose to look at it.
A lot of people had begun uploading non-square images to Instagram using image editing apps to add whitespace to the sides. Clearly people don’t seem fond of Instagram’s aspect ratio limitation anymore and are willing to use odd hacks to upload a non-square image, even if it made their images look terrible. So Instagram finally caved in and decided to add support for landscape and portrait aspect ratios.
