Yesterday, Instagram released an iOS update allowing users to pinch to zoom in on photos and videos in the app. This is big news for avid Instagram users, but even bigger news for moms who have been trying and failing to zoom in on Instagram photos for years.
We’ve pulled together some of our favorite tweets expressing the frustration experienced when moms try to zoom in on Instagram – now a sure thing of the past:
https://twitter.com/JenningsBrody/status/733122828048830464
https://twitter.com/allrik/status/746801559187623936
https://twitter.com/chancesrgreat/status/760661135381131266
When you spend all night teaching your mom how to use Instagram and you see her tryna zoom in on a pic the next day pic.twitter.com/loJ8tLbUNV
— Nick (@nickdicarlo_) March 7, 2016
https://twitter.com/hannah_tom12/status/758082996394131456
"How do I zoom in on instagram?" pic.twitter.com/kOYMTpthxA
— BreakDownRiseUp (@BreakDownRiseUp) August 17, 2016
When your parents try to zoom in on an Instagram post pic.twitter.com/f8QXHkjTxA
— Reese Qualls (@mvnkdz99) July 3, 2016
Just channeled my inner 40 year old mom and double tapped an Instagram to zoom in on it. pic.twitter.com/GsgVLAzF6B
— Connor (@connor93) August 9, 2016
This update comes shortly after the app introduced Instagram Stories, a feature similar to Snapchat Stories, causing both excitement and rage from users.
The general mood resulting from the zoom feature is positive, with a lot of millennials reminiscing on the good ol’ days:
https://twitter.com/lnhuck/status/771434376630456320
I can't wait to reveal to my mom that you can zoom in on Instagram lol it's been a battle
— Eric Gauger (@Eric_Gauger) September 1, 2016
My mom is going to be so confused that you can zoom in on Instagram now because I've flipped out on her so many times that it wasn't a thing
— Gab (@GabCarriere) September 1, 2016
And as for Android users, you’ll have to wait a few weeks for the zoom functionality to become available.
These people with Android trying to zoom in on Instagram are just making my day… Like chill fam, Android is a struggle
— Vasco Danganya (@_boostedninja) September 1, 2016
Instagram’s update is leaving a lot of us with the phrase we say so often: ‘Wow, Mom, I guess you were right.”
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