One, two, three, or four? Nope, ten is good. Or at least, it was.
On Instagram, the photo carousel feature allows users to post multiple photos or videos in a single post that followers can swipe through. They can do this by creating a new post and use that add icon to choose that they want to upload multiple photos. After choosing what they want to upload, they can rearrange the order of the images or photos.
They can then edit them, add captions, add hashtags, tag people, and choose a location.
Users can even add alt text for accessibility purposes
Previously, users were limited to just 10 photos.
This time, Instagram has doubled that limit, and is giving users the freedom to choose up to 20 photos.
The carousel post format first rolled out to all Instagram users back in 2017, and since then, the popular social media has explored features and functionalities since that time, like giving users the ability to delete a single photo from the batch and setting the posts to music.
But ramping up the number to 20 is probably the biggest update yet.
In the era where oversharing is becoming a common thing, sometimes, one post is not enough to represent an activity.
Some people need two, or three, or four, or more photos uploaded in a single batch.
Instagram gave 10 since 2017 through the carousel feature.
This time, users can enjoy twice that number.
Tracking back to the earliest days of smartphones, during the time they started replacing dumbphones, cameras that became better, started allowing people to take more photos and videos than ever before.
Most of these photos were quite big in size, and at the time, it would be easy for those people to run out of physical storage on their devices, even their PCs.
Cloud storage became popular for many people to store their photos, but social media platforms managed to halt their massive increase in popularity, by giving users the ability to share, in a social-like manner.
Long before Instagram becomes the place where people share and store their photos and videos online for free, Facebook with its unlimited free storage space for users, came at the right time.
It was so alluring, that a lot of people at the time, most of whom are Millennials, started using the platform for their photo storage.
Fast forward, as years past, Instagram is now the de facto place for Generation Z to do what is colloquially known as a "photo dump"