It’s now possible to, in the Instagram app for iPhone, pinch-to-zoom on photos and videos, including in-motion videos, in the user feed, on profiles and in the Explore tab.
The image-sharing site today used its Twitter page to announce the new feature. If the feature doesn’t seem to be available for you in the Instagram app, even after you have updated it to the just-released version 9.2, you should force-close that app, as 9to5Mac advises, to see if this rectifies the issue.
Today we’re bringing ZOOM to Instagram on iOS! Pinch to zoom on photos & videos in feed, on profiles and on Explore pic.twitter.com/j1g4JQozK2
— Instagram (@instagram) August 31, 2016
Right now, pinch-to-zoom appears to be available only on the iPhone app; Instagram hasn’t given any indication of when it might appear on the Android app. However, we would be surprised if the social media site doesn’t bring the Android app to parity pretty soon.
The Instagram app for iPhone can be downloaded for free from the iOS App Store.