Instagram Just BROKE Carousels (For Some Of You)

[@laurawhoraa]

I hate this update and it’s on my account and I was wondering how to get rid of it 😭 I love when the photo fits my whole screen and hate that ugly line and little bleed over of the next photo 🥲 as a photographer I hope they don’t keep this and I want my old ig back lol

[@youssefghedjati8342]

I'm in the exact same situation. Please, I need help to get rid of it!

[@Jhollowed25]

This feature only just appeared for me. Basically all my posts are totally ruined now. Instagram fucking sucks.

[@onceandaway]

If the white lines are forced they will kill carousels in my opinion. Because it kills how creative you can be with your images. If I want white lines to separate the pictures I will add white lines MYSELF. I've done many seamless carousels with my own lines so if they force new lines into existing carousels mine will be completely ruined... :( Carousels are the one thing that still makes it fun for me to post pictures. I hate reels.

[@gregoryreneau1052]

8 months later and I never even knew this was happening for so long and now soooo many of my carousels that I spent lots of time designing look like ass. This kills so much creativity on carousels sadly.

[@Needafollower]

Instagram seem destined to fucking kill their app

[@justgotiff]

Hate this new update! I loved the creativity with "seamless" carousels. I noticed it only on my iPhone but not on my android. I hope they will discard this stupid idea.

[@luvbeenh]

is there a way to disable it?

[@judeemclaughlin7394]

Never been good at reels (or any kind of video) so if IG starts supporting stills again, that would be great. I've always hated the aspect ratio. And always glad to see you post a video

[@ItsJonnyKeeley]

Thanks 🙏 I always appreciate your comments.

[@glitchy-00]

pls let me know if theres a way to turn this feature off

[@LLS11]

This exact same situation is happening to me and it's driving me nuts. It started about 2 months ago, without me ever changing any settings on IG or my phone. Its not happening to anyone I know, although they dont have the S24u. Hope this gets fixed soon. Thank you for your video.

[@beyourself9162]

I try to post a picture carousel since a week. The function is buggy on whatever device I try it. It always only posts a single picture even though I did choose 5 pictures. I wrote a feedback to Instagram to no avail. They simple don’t care about content creators… ?

[@antmen20]

I would love for social media to actually allow us to be social 🙂😤

[@ItsJonnyKeeley]

Na that's sounds too easy and too similar to what people actually want. 🤣

[@raineschweikert]

Just came here coz I noticed this on my post today. The strange thing is, it’s only on some of the photos. The first few are seamless, even though all images were the same size. I also see if I view it on my phone on safari there are no lines, which gives me hope it’s an issue they can fix for apps. Hope it shifts back to the way it was.

[@eedsmcdeeds3036]

Honestly I feel like Instagram are gaslighting me! It's only just been implemented into my account and it's driving me crazy I hate it sooo much !! The feature feels like a knife scraping on a china plate to me!!!

[@OlivierVimont]

I hate this new way to display carousels on INSTAGRAM and consider actually to leave INSTAGRAM. They already downgraded the ability to mixt different format some year ago, erasing the efforts we did to associate pictures of different format.

[@URBONED]

I definitely don't mind the seamless floating between frames, but the one line looks tacky in my opinion and as someone that often posts landscapes as you describe, having a white line right through the shot is a major bummer. Having the little white dot to show you're on a carousel is far less obtrusive than this - I honestly don't get the thought process behind it at all. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[@fellowcreator]

I got this update, I use dark mode and it’s sucks more when I see bright and well lit images 😭😭

[@ItsJonnyKeeley]

I can imagine. Part of me wanders how it can be jailbreaked into doing something cool. We shall see.

[@michaelhall859]

I do this all the time.... Honestly can these morons just stop screwing photographers over with idiotic changes 🤬🤬🤬

[@ItsJonnyKeeley]

I’m glad it’s not just me that’s annoyed by this 😆

[@85set05]

Lol what, You used a hack on someone else's developing. Why would you expect that not to break at some point?

[@michaelhall859]

@@85set05 how is it a hack, it's just away to post bigger landscape photos.... Wake up

[@85set05]

@@michaelhall859 You used a feature for an unintended purpose, this is generally referred to as a hack. If you use parts of someone else's changing system to do things they were clearly not designed for there is always a risk involved what you are doing will stop working.

[@kaicontent]

So there is no way this feature can be turned off?

[@ruth1642]

From a view point of a viewer of content, I don't like the whole idea of the white lines. The whole transition thing I don't have a problem with, but I don't like or feel the need for that white line (or I sense black line if you view the app in dark mode).

[@sharomyga]

Why??

[@5imonwillis]

The man is back.. what a ledge.

[@MarcSeePhoto]

Similar to how threads deals with carousels. I felt the change coming 😩

[@jessandrykew]

Nice to see you again sir!

[@ItsJonnyKeeley]

Thanks!

[@WhoIsSerafin]

As a photographer I don't even know what what carousels is on Instagram.

[@david.robertson.photography]

Someone far brighter than me said a ‘change is as good as a rest’. Least it for us stills makers 🙂

[@ItsJonnyKeeley]

Wise words

[@PtrBkls]

so I actually have to wait to take it back? where do I give feedback? I HATE IT! it's not bad only for the ones who post, it is also for these that enjoy the posts. I HATE IT!

[@alnoormeralli]

Earlier today I just posted 2 landscape photographs as a carousel of 4 frames. Oh well. I guess IG clearly does not care for landscape. We'll have to start making vertical videos of landscape stills and pan side-to-side 🤔

[@ItsJonnyKeeley]

This is bitter sweet for me, I was worried this video was only about me!

[@rabtechtutorialvideo]

The thumbnail is lit 🔥

[@MartinV.]

Great Video

[@85set05]

I'm sorry to be spicy but this is what happens when you hacks on other peoples systems,

[@ItsJonnyKeeley]

Not spicy, and your original comment was totally fine. Fair point.

[@joakos1122]

Seemless carousels are such a outdated gimmick though you still cant enjoy the whole photo in landscape at once, it usually crops it badly on your gallery only seeing part of the first photo. I also find the white square on the top right extremely annoying now, i used to not care but its a pet peeve now

[@ItsJonnyKeeley]

You put a 4x5 in the first so it looks good on the grid, then a joined image, then a landscape with borders... if you want to solve all those problems. But yeah, moot point now.

[@calahad]

Honestly? I like this change from a design standpoint. Seamless carousels that are one wide photo cut into several frames is a trend that should have died a long time ago. For individual frames placed into a carousel, this is a non-issue.

[@ItsJonnyKeeley]

Yeah agreed, I still like the creating pano carousels but I like the way this works.