Celebrating 10th Anniversary, Instagram Releases a Hidden Feature to Change Icons

KOMPAS.com – Today, Tuesday (6/10/2020), Instagram even aged 10 years. This social media that is under the auspices of Facebook celebrates in a unique way.

Instagram releases a number of new features. One of them is a hidden features where users can change the Instagram application icon on homescreen.

There are 13 variants of icons to choose from including Twilight, Auora, Gold, Sunrise, to icons instagram old.

Users can choose the classic Instagram logo, which was carried out for the first time by this social media platform in 2010.

To be able to find this hidden feature, users must update the Instagram application to the latest version.

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If so, users can go to the profile page and select the Settings menu. Furthermore, users can scroll down the Settings page, until a row of emojis appears.

After that, users can choose to change the Instagram icon according to the available icon choices. However, this secret feature does not appear to be accessible to all users.

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— Patrick Kosmowski (@kosmowskipat) October 6, 2020

However, users who have not been able to access this hidden feature need not be discouraged because Instagram seems to be rolling out the feature gradually.

As assembled KompasTekno from The Verge, Tuesday (6/10/2020), this hidden feature is alleged to be accessible during October 2020.

KompasTekno also had time to try this feature, however, to no avail. When trying to scroll the Settings page, KompasTekno cannot find the icons in question.

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In addition, there are other features that have been released, such as the Private Map and the Stories Map feature. For information, Instagram was first founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger on October 6, 2010.

Instagram was then annexed by Facebook in April 2012 with a value of 1 billion US dollars or around Rp. 14.7 trillion when converted to today’s transaction rates.

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