Instagram has announced that multiple account support is now available to everyone.
Update (February 9): After a quiet and slow roll out last week, Instagram has confirmed via a help document that this feature is now available to everyone! To add extra accounts to your Instagram app, go to the Settings page and scroll down to the bottom. More details below!
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Original story (February 4): Currently, switching between Instagram accounts is a real pain. A user has to log out of their active account and log in to the new one — and Instagram doesn’t save any passwords. For those of us with passwords that are actually secure (read: nonsensical), it’s not easy switching between accounts.
Thankfully it looks like changes are on the way! Latergramme reports that some users are seeing a new option on their Instagram settings page that will let you stay logged in to multiple accounts simultaneously.
To check to see if you’re one of the lucky people who can add multiple Instagram accounts, open up the app, click the settings button on your profile page, and scroll down to the bottom. If you’re a part of Instagram’s test, you can see a new “Add Account” button at the bottom of the page:
Once you’re logged in to more than one account, Instagram will let you switch between them by tapping your name on your profile page and then selecting the account you want to use from a dropdown menu. No logging out, no logging back in:
Notifications will be prefaced by the account that they’re connected to:
It’s not uncommon for Instagram users to be using more than one account. For example, there are plenty of people out there who have to manage brand accounts (hey, have you followed Hypable on Instagram?), or use different accounts to manage who sees what (sorry Mom, you can’t follow AndrewSimsXXX).
Instagram hasn’t said when they’ll release the feature to the masses, but it’s nice to see they’re finally working on it. It’s about time, too — Twitter and Facebook (to a similar extent) have offered support for multiple accounts for years.
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