Meanwhile, where Instagram’s icon is now filled with color, the app itself has had the color removed. Instead of using blue and white in the app’s chrome, the new black-and-white design allows ...

The changes aren’t limited to just the icon though. Instagram is now rolling out a black-and-white design theme for all users. This was till now available only to a few users, on an experimental ...

By Taylor Lorenz Over the past several days, many Instagram feeds have been overrun with black-and-white images of women both famous and not. These photographs are often posed and filtered ...

An unprompted update to the app has switched the feed’s usual white background to black. And while Instagram says the move is designed to make the app more immersive, not everyone is convinced.