In addition to the numerous hardware announcements Apple presented at WWDC23 earlier this week, the company also revealed a litany of software updates including iPadOS 17, and the developer beta appears to allow users to plug in their own webcams.
Instagram has announced four updates to the platform that are rolling out to users today: Reels can be up to 90 seconds long, audio can be imported to Reels, stickers can be added to Reels, and users can now pin content to their profile grid.
Instagram is testing the ability to pin posts to a profile, which would allow users to highlight specific photos at the top rather than hiding them under a deluge of newer ones.
VSCO has added a set of age-old yet still powerful tools to its iPhone app: dodge and burn. The addition allows users to take more granular control over shadows and highlights in their photos.
Google has begun to more widely roll out the Locked Folder feature, which allows Android users to locally store sensitive images and videos, that was previously only available on Pixel smartphones.
The digital payments company Square has launched the Square Photo Studio app which allows sellers to easily take "professional" product photos from a mobile device and sync them to their online store or Square item catalog for free.
Google's new "Pet Portraits" feature inside its Arts and Culture app allows users to find works of art that resemble their pets by simply submitting a photo and letting the artificial intelligence find a match from thousands of art pieces.
Instagram is testing a change to its services that makes it harder to reshare content, therefore making shares more "intentional." While before users could share a post to their story, it could be done from the post itself. With this change, it could only be done from the "stickers" tab.
Adobe is leaning a bit more into the benefits of a cloud-based architecture with the rollout of an easy collaboration button and asynchronous editing in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fresco. The "Invite to Edit" button is available starting today.
Instead of giving users an edit button, Twitter instead today rolled out a new feature called Fleets. Fleets are a knockoff of Instagram Stories, which are of course a knockoff of Snapchat Stories. Time is a flat circle.
Fujifilm has released an interesting update for the fixed-lens X100V. After users complained that the new camera was unexpectedly shutting off due to overheating issues, the company has added an "Auto Power Off Temp" option in the menu that actually lets you set the temperature level at which your camera will overheat and turn off.
Adobe has released a new "speak peek" of an upcoming feature that many photographers have been begging for ever since Lightroom debuted on iOS: seamless photo import into Lightroom from a mobile device.
Instagram is testing a new feature called Archived Posts that will let you pull photos off of your main profile and into a hidden "Archive" section. That way, you can curate a perfect profile without deleting any of the photos you've shared on the social network.
Instagram just added yet another feature to its growing list of abilities: Collections. A natural evolution of the "Save" feature IG added back in December, Collections lets you organize the photos you've saved into personal galleries.
Instagram may soon become a solid revenue stream for talented photographers. The app's head of business, James Quarles, has confirmed that Instagram will soon add the option to "book" a business right from inside the app.