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.
Once you update to the new version 7.5 build on iOS and Android, you will get a button while choosing the image to switch to the original aspect ratio of the image instead of cropping it to 1:1, after which you can then proceed to edit the image as usual.
This also works for videos, so you can now have full width widescreen videos on Instagram as well. There doesn’t seem to be a limitation on the aspect ratio in landscape mode but in portrait mode you are limited to 4:3, so if you upload a 16:9 vertical image or video it gets its top and bottom cropped off to fit into 4:3.
This is done to prevent images and videos from overflowing out of the viewing area within the app and that the image or video still remains entirely within the app’s UI.
If you click on the profile, you still see square thumbnails of images and videos to preserve the square grid layout of profiles.
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