Facebook’s Instagram has become the online home for many amateur and professional photographers. Passing 400 million users last fall, the platform is an extremely popular social network, especially when considering the narrow scope of its functionality.
Today, the iOS Instagram app was updated to give older iPhone users something they have been sorely missing since September, the ability to emulate 3D Touch gestures with a long press.
The Instagram app for iOS has supported 3D Touch for a long time, and on Android the app was recently updated to give users a quick look at photos by holding down the application’s thumbnail. Older Apple smartphones, however, weren’t able to access this “Peek” functionality before today.
To date, no other application, not even Apple’s in-house developed apps, emulate 3D Touch gestures in any way.
If you’re on Android, or haven’t yet updated to the iPhone 6s or 6s Plus, you can go and try out long press gestures now by downloading Instagram from the iOS App Store or the Google Play Store.
[source]App Store, Google Play[/source]
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