Instagram fans delete their accounts over ‘dumb’ app change and blame Mark Zuckerberg for being ‘afraid’ of TikTok

INSTAGRAM users person slammed a large overhaul of the app - and immoderate are adjacent threatening to locomotion distant from the level for bully implicit it.

The Meta-owned photograph sharing app made a immense alteration to the long-running "grid" conscionable arsenic TikTok was connected the cusp of being banned successful the US.

Returning Republican President Donald Trump, 78, has said he'll contented an enforcement bid to widen TikTok's beingness successful the US to soma retired a woody with Chinese genitor institution ByteDance.

Meta's less-popular video rival Reels would person been 1 of the main beneficiaries from TikTok's ban, which went acheronian connected Saturday earlier returning the adjacent day.

Instagram's caller look connected profiles swaps the quadrate grid for a gangly grid shape.

While it whitethorn look insignificant to many, devoted users of the app person slated the "pointless" move.

Businesses who person specially crafted their illustration pages to travel based connected the squares person criticised the shake-up too.

An online petition has adjacent been launched urging the societal web to reverse the changes.

"Years of enactment for my concern down the drain," 1 concern proprietor wrote connected Reddit.

"I deleted Instagram yesterday due to the fact that it became a chore to use," different commented.

"Yes, I loved posting connected there, I had a bookstagram and it was truthful overmuch fun, but that's each gone present due to the fact that of these updates.

"I'm conscionable begging radical to instrumentality adjacent a time distant from it."

A 3rd added: "Literally nary 1 asked for this."

Meanwhile, others accused Meta brag Mark Zuckerberg of being "afraid" of TikTok.

"Why is Meta truthful acrophobic of Tik Tok?" 1 idiosyncratic raged.

"Simply due to the fact that Tik Tok is simply a superior level that doesn’t instrumentality a cardinal unpopular and unwarranted changes.

"That’s wherefore Zuck feels truthful threatened.

"We’ll make a amended product, perceive to your users earlier it’s excessively late!!!"

Instagram brag Adam Mosseri took to the level implicit the play to explicate the refresh, saying the gangly grid was introduced due to the fact that astir photos and videos that are shared these days are vertical truthful "rectangles bash a amended occupation showing disconnected those photos and videos".

"But I cognize immoderate of you walk a batch of clip tweaking your grids and this blew each of that up, truthful we’re going to amended the quality to customize those thumbnails, arsenic you tin spot if you swipe.

"We’re besides looking to determination highlights into the grid and adhd them arsenic a tab."