Social media site and Meta subsidiary Instagram lets you include 10 images in a single post. But sometimes there are life events that are too big to be depicted in just that number of photos. With that in mind, the platform is doubling the limit to 20.
The ability to include 10 pieces of media was introduced all the way back in 2017. Well, for the average users it was, as advertisers on Instagram had the ability to do so two years before even then. Now, like all those years ago, you can include 20 pieces of media – so a mix of photos and videos – into a single post. Just as it is now, you can change the order, or apply filters in batch for the media involved in said Instagram post.
It’s a bit odd that this was a limitation on Instagram in the first place, when you think about it. Sister social media site Facebook has had the ability to let users dump as many images as they want in a post, limited only by the uploader’s obnoxiousness. But perhaps that’s the reason that this limit is present elsewhere.
On that note, The Verge mentions that the ability to have 20 images or videos in a single Instagram post makes it more in line with TikTok, which can take 35 per post. Though as the latter is primarily a short video platform, it’s odd that it has that sort of demand for uploading images to begin with. At any rate, the report notes that this change to the former starts rolling out globally today.
(Source: The Verge)
