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by petepete 1492 days ago
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.
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Snowworm 1492 days ago
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.

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petepete 1491 days ago
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/_/

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