The change was rolled out largely to North America users based on the reactions online.
tech2 News Staff Dec 28,2018 08:41 AM IST
Instagram users woke up to a surprising change to the app’s layout on Thursday – with the familiar vertical scroll of its feed changed abruptly sideways – literally so.
The instinctive slide of the finger upwards did very little to move from one post to the next, as users had to instead swipe between them like some dating apps we’ve grown familiar with.
Why, Instagram?
Oof that constantly-shifting bar at the top is not pairing well with my OCD tendencies. #instagram pic.twitter.com/mAlsyxo9Mm
— Claire Foyant (@wordswithsam) December 27,2018
That seemed to be the resonant response from users, who took to Twitter and Instagram to express their disdain.
“what do you think of the new #instagram update?”
me: pic.
