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Instagram revamps Explore tab, adds caption & location editing

After updating its app for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus last month, Instagram is out with a feature update today with some welcome features.

Users will likely appreciate the ability to edit photo captions and locations attached to photos in post now. That means if you make a typo on your caption, you no longer have to choose between correcting yourself in the comments, deleting and re-posting the photo with the correction caption, or just ignoring it altogether.

The ability to edit captions extends to location as well. You can find the new editing features under the ‘more’ icon to the right of the comment button under your own photos and videos.

Instagram has also rolled out some changes to the Explore tab as you can see in the photos above. From Instagram’s blog post:

In this update, we’re continuing to improve the Explore page on Instagram by making it faster to find people you want to follow. With this in mind, you’ll see that the Explore icon at the bottom of your screen has changed to a magnifying glass.

When you open Explore, you’ll now see two tabs: Photos and People. The Photos tab has not changed. It contains the same scrolling grid of photos and videos you already know. The new People tab highlights interesting accounts for you to discover.

The new version of Instagram, version 6.2, is rolling out on the App Store now.

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Comments

  1. ifunography - 9 years ago

    How about something that’s actually useful like a share extension so I can make edits and posts from my camera roll /meh

  2. The question is when are they going to update the ICON

  3. daving313 - 9 years ago

    Yet still no iPad app at the end of 2014.

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Zac covers Apple news, hosts the 9to5Mac Happy Hour podcast, and created SpaceExplored.com.