The button on the right allows you to switch between one large margin at the bottom, two equal margins on either side of the photo, or one large margin at the top. Press this button several times to adjust the width of the margins. This button allows you to choose between three different margin widths. If you’d like to add extra white space on all four sides of the image, select the next option as shown below. This option will automatically add margins to two sides of the photo without adding any margins to the other two sides. If your photo is already on your iPhone, select Albums option.Īfter you have selected your photo from the photo library, your screen should look like this.ĭo you see the row of icons at the bottom of the screen? To add white margins on the sides of your photo, select the middle option on the bottom row of icons as shown by the red arrow. The first step is to open your photo by selecting the import icon in Squaready. While there are several apps that can do this, my favorite one is called Squaready, which is a free app with ads. They also have a paid version with the same functionality but no ads, which is what I’m going to use in the following example. And since Instagram photos are shown against white background, the visual experience of my followers is not compromised. This allows me to trick Instagram into believing that this photo is a square and thus bypass the cropping menu. Instagram only accepts square uploads, so the only solution is to turn this photo into a square by adding white margins.
If I cropped this photo into a square, it would lose its impact because I would be forced to cut out either the rock in the foreground or the orange cliff into the background.
In this article I’m going to use one of my favorite iPhone landscape photos. (Update: You can now upload non-square photos directly to Instagram!)
Have you ever tried to upload a photo to Instagram, only to be frustrated that this popular photo sharing app requires you to crop all your photos into squares? Even though Instagram wants to be a square-only photography network, there is a little-known trick that you can use to not crop your photos when you’re uploading them to Instagram.
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