The app is rolling out a major change that swaps its signature square grid for a new rectangular layout — much to the frustration of some users who've spent years curating perfectly aligned profiles.

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Instagram is replacing the traditional square grid with a rectangular style on profile pages. The change helps showcase vertical content, such as videos and photos, which have become common.

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Instagram, the Meta-owned platform is rolling out vertical grids on profiles, replacing the traditional square format ... integrating highlights into the grid as a separate tab.

Naturally, not everyone took the change well. If you're one of those in this camp (you're not alone, by the way), you can follow these steps to change Instagram's grid back to the old square format.

The instructions, however, don’t forbid cuts that do not run along the square grid. Using the Pythagorean theorem, one can confirm that the two diagonal cuts below have a length of 5.

That means your carefully curated grid could be a mess as the dimensions of the content shift on your profile. "I know some of you really like your squares. And square photos are sort of the heritage ...

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