iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus Camera Features Will Be Utilised by the Instagram App

Facebook-owned Instagram is redesigning its upcoming iOS app to take advantage of iPhone 7 camera capabilities and will add new filters and gif features, a media report said.

Apple recently launched iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus models with major upgrades to camera department.
Both the iPhones have 12-megapixel rear camera with optical image stabilisation (OIS).

The iPhone 7 Plus has a twin-lens setup that offers 2x optical zoom and up to 10x digital zoom for photos.The new app will also use 3D Touch to allow users to add a photo to their Instagram Story.

"Developers at Instagram are redesigning the filters of the iOS app to take advantage of the wide-gamut colour detection of the iPhone 7 camera sensor," technology website TechTimes quoted Ian Spalter, Head of Design, Instagram, as saying.

This would make Instagram photos more vivid by producing a broad range of colours in the photos taken, Spalter added.

Developers are also working on a new feature that will let users convert Live Photos into Instagram Boomerang back-and-forth gifs.

A Live Photo captures 1.5 seconds of video and audio both before and after you press the shutter button to take a photo. Thus, in addition to a still JPEG image, you also get a three second Live Photo.
Previously, users need to shoot Boomerangs in the dedicated app, which captures a series of still photos and combines them to create a gif animation.

The new version of Instagram will allow users to capture images in an iPhone camera and morph them into Boomerangs, the report added.