--- title: Instagram Introduces Zoom Feature For Photos And Videos description: Instagram just made social media creeping easier, thanks to introducing a "zoom" feature, which means the days of screenshots are over. canonical: https://time.com/4474466/instagram-zoom/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-31T17:35:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:05.106Z og:title: Now You Can Zoom In On Instagram Photos and Videos og:description: No more screenshots og:url: https://time.com/4474466/instagram-zoom/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf4a12ad33bb3f699/6988a45afb4eac75ab88ef07/instagram-zoom.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Popular Smart Phone Apps Of 2016 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Now You Can Zoom In On Instagram Photos and Videos twitter:description: No more screenshots twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf4a12ad33bb3f699/6988a45afb4eac75ab88ef07/instagram-zoom.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Instagram Introduces Zoom So You Can Creep on Social Media Without Getting Caught > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) Carl Court—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 31, 2016 5:35 PM UTC [Social media creepers of the world](http://time.com/money/4463460/kardashians-social-media-ads/), rejoice! [Instagram](http://time.com/4273531/instagram-algorithm/) just announced that its platform now offers a zoom functionality. This means means that unlike before, where an attempt to zoom might result in an accidental “like” and reveal that yes, you were [creeping eight months deep](http://time.com/3690036/iphone-hide-anything/) on the Instagram account of someone you just went on a Tinder date with, you can now safely examine any photo or video on the platform with a clear conscience. The zoom works sans screenshot, which is how most people responsibly creeped on Instagram before this innovative update. All you need to do is use two fingers to “pinch” the screen to zoom on any photo or video. The feature is only available on iOS for now, but an Android update is in the works. **Quiz**: [_Are You Ready for Back to School?_](http://time.com/4457305/back-to-school-quiz/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4474466/instagram-zoom/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4474466/instagram-zoom/"},"headline":"Instagram Introduces Zoom So You Can Creep on Social Media Without Getting Caught","datePublished":"2016-08-31T17:35:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:05.106Z","description":"No more screenshots","url":"https://time.com/4474466/instagram-zoom/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Tech","Entertainment","Social Media","Technology","Instagram"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf4a12ad33bb3f699/6988a45afb4eac75ab88ef07/instagram-zoom.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf4a12ad33bb3f699/6988a45afb4eac75ab88ef07/instagram-zoom.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Popular Smart Phone Apps Of 2016","caption":"Popular Smart Phone Apps Of 2016","creditText":"Carl Court—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4474466/instagram-zoom/","name":"Instagram Introduces Zoom So You Can Creep on Social Media Without Getting Caught"}}]}] ```