Instagram 12+

i love instagram and i just wanna give some suggestions that would make instagram EVEN better. since we already have a close friends list for stories, you should really try making a close friends list for posts! i think this would be perfect for sharing photos with your close friends and only allow them to see it! and maybe you could try making an option to allow certain people to see the posts you make! you can have a settings option for every post and maybe block some of your followers from seeing a certain post that you wanna keep it between close friends, that would be cool too! this is just a suggestion, so its okay if you dont make this an update, but i would really love to see something like this in the future! thanks to the creators of this app i always have something to look through when im bored!

The new font updates were great, the fonts look way better and there is more variety, except we can no longer have a background behind the Strong font, only shadow, which I find stupid because what’s the point of removing it when background behind Strong font has already been the thing since the very beginning of Instagram Stories?? What you all could do is have an option both for background behind or shadow.
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What’s with the new suggested posts section after scrolling through “You’re all caught up”?? Why can’t we just keep on scrolling continously to view the older posts, why do even have to press ‘older posts’ so that we can view the older posts? This new update has unnecessary features which are pointless, the usual continous scrolling and viewing older posts is already fine! Nobody complains at all and has a problem... Furthermore suggested posts should be something we view in the explore page and not on our feed! Why do you even have to change it?? We don’t scroll continously in the main feed only to end up seeing the same mess and randomness of stuff of the explore page. Take this “Suggested Posts” and “View older posts” stuff out and go back to the original ways! Everyone is fine with the old feed already, this new update is just ruining the experience of instagram!

it used to be a great app in the early days before facebook bought it over and it’s now meta. it’s very difficult for a small biz to grow its outreach with the algorithm now which requires you to be super active and engaging on the app (posting daily, liking, commenting, making videos/reels) or your posts will get buried and not reach many of your followers. it’s such a drain on my mental health that i had to put my biz on hiatus and go back to a corporate job cos i was too stressed and anxious, worrying about the stupid IG algorithm.

now, on my personal instagram, i’ve noticed a significant drop in the number of views of my stories because i’ve shared some palestinian content, been liking and commenting on palestinian posts. i’ve also been observing pro palestinian accounts getting suspended, having their posts removed when the posts have nothing that infringes instagram’s guidelines, etc. i’m disappointed at how instagram is filtering the content in an unfair biased manner when i’ve seen pro israeli content that were very obviously misinfo, propaganda, violence/hate inciting which instagram has decided is ok to be left up. if instagram is shadow banning and filtering pro palestinian content, you should also do the same for pro israeli content.