Platforms built to connect people, for better or for worse, are now for doing the opposite.

Learn about the recent Instagram outage affecting over 2800 users and what it means for the platform's reliability.

Discovering that you got an email from Instagram about a password reset request that you didn't make can be a very concerning situation for anyone. After all, it is hard to know how the situation could affect you and what to do next when you find yourself on the receiving end of that email.

Do you care about your follower-to-following ratio? Well, get ready to care about how many "friends" you have.

Instagram has rolled out Your Algorithm, a new feature that lets users control the kind of content they see on Reels by adding or removing topics, giving people more say over what shows up in their feed.

More than half of all ads on Meta's Instagram ran in the service's short-form video Reels product in 2025, up from 35% in 2024, according to Sensor Tower.

In a series of messages, Instagram’s top exec laid out his concerns for the platform in the coming year, largely around AI. The post was equal parts Working Through It, a sounding of alarms, and a rallying cry to creators who use the platform: AI is about to be everywhere on Instagram,

Have you ever scrolled through your phone, looking at a picture of a perfectly sun-drenched living room with a strategically draped throw blanket, and then looked up at your own living room, which currently features a half-eaten bag of chips and a dog sleeping on the “good” pillows?