Instagram profile grids are going to feature rectangles instead of squares

Instagram’s profile grids will discarry out satisfied as rectangles instead of squares as part of a alter rolling out “over the weekfinish,” Instagram chief Adam Mosseri shelp in an Instagram Story on Friday.

“I understand some of you repartner appreciate your squares. And square photos are sort of the heritage of Instagram. But at this point, most of what’s uploaded, both photos and videos, are vertical in their orientation,” Mosseri shelp. It’s a “bummer to overly crop them,” he compriseed.

Mosseri acunderstandledges that the alter might be a “bit of a pain,” but he leanks that it’s a “transitional” pain. “I leank people will, over the extfinished run, be excited that more of their photos and more of their videos are actupartner apparent as intfinished in the profile as resistd to opposingly cropped,” Mosseri shelp.