Update to Instagram allows you to post pictures and videos in portrait or landscape

Huey Lewis sang that it’s “Hip to be square,” but not if you’re an Instagram user. Those who are subscribers to the picture-sharing app are so sick of squares, that they are probably ecstatic to hear about today’s news. An update to Instagram now allows users to post their photographs in portrait or landscape, instead of the square shape that was the only option for photos since the app launched in October 2010.

Back when Instagram was first listed in the Apple App Store, squares and square crops looked fine on the smaller 3.5 inch iPhone screen of that era. But five years later the app …

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