INSTAGRAM users around the world were wowed by the recent launch of the new zoom feature. Infact, there have been a lot of requests to add the much-wanted feature to the app. The feature lets you pinch in to zoom on the photos or videos you see in the app.
“You can pinch to zoom on photos and videos in feed, on profiles and on Explore. Dive into an adorable puppy’s smile or into every detail of your friend’s new shirt,” Instagram in a post said.
For now, the feature has only been made available to Instagram for iOS, while the Android app will receive the feature in the coming weeks. As we know, the Facebook-owned company has recently been releasing numerous features to its widely used app to catch up with the competitors like Snapchat and Twitter.
It’s a simple pinch-and-zoom gesture that will let you zoom in on any photo or video, and lifting or releasing the pinch will restore the size to normal. It’s the same Lightbox effect that protrudes an image out of its original frame as you zoom. Instagram has noted that the ‘pinch to zoom’ will work on photos and videos in the main feed, as well as on profiles and Explore.
The news follows a bunch of interesting changes to Instagram, including an outrageous logo change that caused a mass freak out and a highly-controversial roll out of Stories, which borrowed straight from the Snapchat feature of the same name.

Source: Arab News