Instagram hopes to keep you in the loop with Highlights email

Instagram is hoping to keep its 300 million users active the old-fashioned way: sending email highlights of some of the best photos from your feed. How they select which photos to show we’re not quite sure. But this is an attempt to get more eyeballs onto their platform. And even see more ads, perhaps. It might serve you a purpose though if you just want to see a few great photos without having to wade through your feed.

Source: Engadget

Flickr's iOS app now more like Camera Roll, can auto-upload all your photos

Flickr is continously innovating its apps to regain part of the photo storage and sharing mojo it once had. The new version of the Flickr iOS app now behaves more like Apple's Camera Roll which makes it more familiar to users. Photos can now be auto-uploaded to Flickr, making it easier than ever before to backup and share. 

Flickr also features various photo filters and the ability to share directly to Instagram. Flickr is offering 1TB of free storage, and a typical iPhone photo coming in at around 2.5Mb, that gives you capacity in the order of half a million photos. Hit jump for the full changelog of Flicker 4.0 for iOS.

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Instagram introduces emoji hashtags

It has come to the point where we can’t even communicate with words anymore. Instagram is now letting you use emojis for your hashtags. And you can search for these through the Explore tab. According to BuzzFeed, the most popular ones are the kissy face one, the one with hearts in their eyes, and the one crying because of laughing too much.

The latest update for their Android and iOS apps also introduces three new filters called Reyes, Lark, and Juno.

Source: BuzzFeed | Download: Apple App Store (free) + Google Play Store (free)

Instagram introduces new Fade and Color features to its Android app

Instagram usually updates its iOS app before its Android  app. The photo sharing app has been an iOS-exclusive for a while. Now, there seems to be a role reversal of sorts. Instagram is introducing two new tools to Android before their iOS release. The Android app is getting Fade and Color editing tools.  

As the names suggest, Fade lets you mute colors and soften lines for that darkroom feel. You adjust it via the slider mechanism. Color, on the other hand, offers various tint images to change the hues and, well, color of your image. The version 6.19.0 is already rolling out today. iOS users don't have to wait too long though. It'll be coming to you "in a few days." 

Source: Digital Trends | Download: Google Play Store (Free)