Instagram Brings Back Classic Icon For Ten-Year Anniversary
- Jacky Shih
- Nov 17, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Jan 12, 2021
Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms among teenagers and youngsters nowadays. The users of this social platform can share their personal pictures on their own page with other users who follow them. Also, users can chat with their friends (or followers) via the platform. One of the reasons why the usage of Instagram surpassed Facebook is because compared with Facebook, there are less elderly users on Instagram, so teenagers and youngsters can post without any concerns. To celebrate its 10th anniversary of launching on the App Store, Instagram announced that there would be thirteen different icons available for the users to change on their smartphones, including the original classic one.
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The classic icon and the current icon of Instagram.
Before May 2016, the icon of Instagram on smartphones was the one on the left, an image of a vintage camera. However, the company decided to change the platform’s icon to the one on the right. Not only did the company change the look of the icon, but it also changed the user interface of the application, which makes the UI more intuitive for users of the app.
Though the users might have already gotten used to the new icon nowadays, the feedback on the new icon was mostly negative when it first came out. Most of the users thought that the new icon didn’t look as good as the original one, and wanted the company to change it back to the original one.
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First, go to the setting page of your Instagram, then drag the page down until the emojis pop up.
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There are multiple choices of icons for the users to choose from.
To satisfy their users and celebrate their tenth anniversary at the same time, Instagram decided to bring back their classic icon. Besides the classic icon which looks like a camera and the current pink one, there are eleven other different types of icon for the users to choose from. They respectively are, Classic, Original, Codename, Twilight, Sunrise, Aurora, Pride, Gold, Dark, Light, and Very Dark. Each different icon has their own features and colors. The steps to change the icon of the app on your smartphone are as follows, first, go to the setting page of the app, then drag the page down until the emojis pop up. Lastly, there will be twelve different icons displayed on the page, and the users can pick the one they want!
Instagram didn’t only just bring back the classic icon for its tenth anniversary, it also brought the users some new features this time. Users can now check their stories archive for the past three years on a calendar and a map. This reminds the users when and where did this event happen, which is a lot more intuitive for the users to use.
Work Cited
Fig. 1. Facebook INC. Instagram's old logo and app icon, left, and the new logo, right. The Wall Street Journal. 11 May, 2016, https://www.wsj.com/articles/instagram-kills-vintage-camera-icon-simplifies-user-interfaceand-users-react-1462994387. Accessed 20 October, 2020.
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