Instagram Stories Rolling Out in a New Design for Mobile in India
The latest design update for Stories is headed to mobile users in the country this month.
Facebook-owned photo-messaging app Instagram has quietly rolled out a new design on its Stories option in India.
The semi-circular selector wheel design, spotted this week, has reduced and categorised the previous eight camera options to three -- Live, Camera and Create -- along with the flash option at the centre of the screen.
The Live feature arranges Augmented Reality (AR) filters in the semi-circular format.
Towards its left, the Camera option displays Hands-Free, Forward, Super zoom and Boomerang options along with the AR filters on its right.
The Create option lays out options including Tap to Type, Ask me a question, polls and countdown.
Reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong had spotted the design first earlier in March.
"Instagram is working on new 'Stories' user-interface, inspired from mechanical circular mode switcher in DSLRs," Wong had tweeted.
It remains unclear exactly how many global regions has the feature reached already.
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