[junon]

Cool so I just improve my images outside the app using a different app as a workaround.

[csw-001]

So what about the inverse? Mark any photo taken within the app and uploaded without modification as “Authentic”?

[thih9]

What about people who want to make "Authentic" photos outside of the app?

E.g. people who prefer another camera app, or photographers who use a camera instead of their phone.

[gruez]

And what's preventing you from aiming your phone at a monitor? Sure, people might notice if you're aiming at your $200 monitor, but with a high DPI, high brightness, wide color gamut monitor you can probably get away with it.

[csw-001]

It’s about instituting a level of messaging to shift culture and promote authentic photos - not build fool-proof security.

[Sebb767]

Analog filters exist, too. They might not be as great as their digital equivalent in some cases, but people really want to fake #nofilter and it's basically impossible to detect.

[petepete]

I think this would put Android users at a huge disadvantage because of the way the app works (it takes a screenshot of what's on the display).

This might have changed, haven't really used the app for a couple of years.

[Snowworm]

What? That sounds really stupid. Could you provide a source?

Even if Instagram does that, they can still modify the app to take pictures properly. That's definitely not a limitation with Android. The only problem I can see with this is people modifying the picture header to become the edited photo instead of a legitimate one (either with a rooted phone or a modified request on pc). There's not really any way for Instagram to properly verify this.

[petepete]

I might have confused the screenshotting the viewfinder with Snapchat[0], it looks like Instagram was just poorly optimised[1]

[0] https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/02/22/the-galaxy-s21-is-t...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/downdc/_/

[gabereiser]

Oh, so like I do for TikTok? Easy.