Facebook’s Instagram service is loosening its restraints on video in an attempt to lure younger viewers away from YouTube when they’re looking for something to watch on their smartphones.

Meta Platforms' Instagram was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were 16,747 incidents of people reporting issues with ...

Instagram says it’s testing notifications that will alert users to “temporary issues” like outages one week after an outage that took the app offline for hours.

Instagram added a new feature to the app that shows when users are online called activity status. Instagram How to turn new Instagram status on or off: First, users who want to use the new ...

Instagram is updating its account status feature to help creators “understand if their account’s content is eligible to be recommended to non-followers.” ...

Downdetector only tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage might have affected a larger number of users.

Just go to "activity status" in the app's main settings to disable activity status (when disabled, you won't be able to view which of your friends are online, either).

How to Check Facebook & Instagram Server Status With Facebook being such a giant, it does have its own dedicated status page under the Meta umbrella.

Facebook’s service outages last week were so bad that Instagram is testing a new feature that will alert users about problems with the app. The alert is designed to stop confusion, says ...

Facebook's Instagram service is loosening its restraints on video in an attempt to pull younger viewers away from YouTube. The expansion announced Wednesday, dubbed IGTV, will increase Instagram's ...

Video will be available through Instagram or a new app called IGTV. The video will eventually give Facebook more opportunities to sell advertising.