Instagram has finally addressed a long-standing frustration by fully supporting pictures in the popular 3:4 aspect ratio. This means that, in most cases, you can now post photos to Instagram straight from your camera without losing any of the picture at the edges due to cropping.

The change was recently announced by Instagram's head, Adam Mosseri, on the platform’s sister app, Threads. “Instagram now supports 3:4 aspect ratio photos – the format that almost every phone camera defaults to. From now on, if you upload a 3:4 image, it’ll now appear just exactly as you shot it,” said Mosseri on Thursday. The post has already garnered over 20,000 likes and 1,000 comments.

Most Instagram users will find that their smartphone cameras default to shooting pictures in the 3:4 aspect ratio. However, until now, Instagram has forced users to crop these images into one of the app's few supported shapes.

With full support for the 3:4 aspect ratio, users can now upload pictures directly from their cameras without having to decide how to crop them each time.

Beyond smartphones, cameras using the Micro Four Thirds system and Fujifilm’s medium format cameras also shoot in a 3:4 aspect ratio. However, most popular stand-alone cameras use a 2:3 format, which still isn’t supported natively on Instagram.

link: https://help.instagram.com/1631821640426723

Instagram’s official help document (yet to be updated at the time of writing) states that photos must be between 320 and 1,080 pixels wide and have an aspect ratio between 1.91:1 and 4:5 to be displayed without cropping. The 3:4 aspect ratio falls outside this range, hence the need for this latest update.

Some users have reported that they don’t yet have 3:4 aspect ratio support enabled in their Instagram app. This is likely due to a staggered rollout, but there are a few things you can try:

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