Instagram Launches Account Switching On iOS and Android

Today, Instagram announced that users will be able to switch between up to five different accounts when using the app on iOS and Android. This new feature will be available later this week, when users download version 7.15 of the app. According to a blog post from the company, "Go to your profile settings to add an additional account. From there, tap your username at the top of your profile to switch between accounts. Once you have multiple accounts added, you'll see your profile photo appear in places throughout the app so you can always tell which one you're using at the moment."

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[retchdog]

sounds like github is trying to become profitable (lol), so to distract people from a gigantic management shakeup/shakedown, they're trying to use the useful idiots on both sides of the "culture war" as an excuse/cause/strawman for massive failures. you know, kind of like they did with reddit and every other unprofitable wank site on the internet. and by unprofitable wank site, i mean any wank site apart from literal porn sites. those seem to make money somehow.

instead of rallying to the side of whomever mo

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[KGIII]

Not only have I never used it, I don't think I've ever used an app like it? Maybe I'm missing something? I probably am... I don't use a whole lot of apps. (Sorry App Guy!®)

So... Umm... I don't really use apps but why, exactly, do I need permission to use multiple accounts? Shouldn't I be able to login and logout of the thing as much as I want and to use any damned (authorized) account on it that I please? Why is there even a limit, anyhow?

I dunno, it seems pretty stupid to me. It's none of their damned

News that Matters?????

[mschiller]

Seriously???

1) It's Instagram which is about as relevant as Facebook.
2) It's multiple accounts? Seriously? A basic app feature is news that matters??
3) It's Instagram.. How many Slashdot users use Instagram? 10? 100?

Slashdot it what's starting to not matter anymore....

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[sims 2]

Ive never used instagram.

But in the past if I needed to use multiple accounts on ios apps I just installed 2 copies of the app so I could have both signed in. (jailbreak required)

Re:News that Matters?????

[The Good Reverend]

Thank goodness you took time from your busy schedule to post on a topic you don't care about. Now everyone knows, via your post on the internet, that this topic isn't worth posting about.

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[sims 2]

Lots of other apps don't support fast user switching so It's an improvement. But at the same time it's probably a pita. Ever signed into google on a shared computer? After signing out you still get to back to the login screen to remove your account from the login page.

I don't always want my login info saved.

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[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

I suspect that Instagram simply realizes that 'different accounts' is a security/visibility-control model that people find easier and more familiar than various sorts of filters/tags/groups/'friends only'/etc. It's not as though they will have much difficulty correlating a user's accounts(even if the app doesn't explicitly send them 'all usernames on this device', seeing logins to certain accounts from a specific device is a pretty big clue); but switching accounts is easier than futzing with security setti

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[Ol Olsoc]

Thank goodness you took time from your busy schedule to post on a topic you don't care about. Now everyone knows, via your post on the internet, that this topic isn't worth posting about.

A complaint is a gift.

And your complaint about a complaint leads me to say:

Yo dawg, we hear you like complaining about complaints, so we complained and got a complainer container so you can complain while complaining about complaint complaints.

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[Midnight Thunder]

Not everyone is you and there are people who use these services to market themselves or their company. You could argue it is all fluff, but if it gets the necessary attention and business, that's what matters in the end.

Poor timothy

[sexconker]

I hope timothy can find a new job soon!
All hail yaelk!

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[sjritt00]

I think this is the first non-Timothy post since shortly after the changeover from Dice.

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[KGIII]

You'd be mistaken. One (or more) was posted by The New Guy on Saturday. You probably have more excitement in your life than I have and missed it. There was at least one, maybe two, that were posted by someone other than Timothy. If you've more energy than I, you can scroll back and find it. I'm pretty sure it was Saturday but I'm often on page 1 so it might have actually been posted on Friday.

Another astonishing advance

[Drunkulus]

Every time you hear about a groundbreaking new technology from Instagram, it just reinforces their billion dollar valuation. Multiple user accounts ON THE SAME APP?? If you told me this a week ago, I'd have laughed and asked for a jetpack while you're at it.

This is just awesome!

[fredrated]

Will the software wonders never cease?

Awesome for data collection

[DogDude]

Super awesome for the people collecting data. Now, when people are using different accounts for personal or business or whatever kind of compartmentalizations they need, the data harvesters can tie them all together to the same person much easier. Congrats to them!

So, let me get this straight.

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

In 2016 it is 'news' when a client application supports storing more than one set of credentials?

Truly, what miracles 'mobile' hath wrought. Wherever would we be without such innovators?

Instagram?

[Tighe_L]

I don't understand why anyone uses it. You have to use a phone to be able to access most of the functions, if you login to the website you can't even delete a photo.