Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

Instagram head Adam Mosseri has offered fresh insight into how the platform ranks posts and distributes content. He shared these details during a recent appearance on the Mixed Signals podcast, where ...

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement announcement on Instagram broke the internet on August 26, 2025. The post, featuring photos from a garden proposal, garnered millions of likes within hours, ...

In 2025, the Instagram algorithm has become more advanced than ever, using artificial intelligence and machine learning to decide what content users see in their Feeds, Reels, Stories, Explore pages, ...

Instagram is capping how many hashtags users can attach to content as the platform recalibrates discovery. The Meta-owned platform will now allow up to five hashtags in Reels or feed posts. Instagram ...

Instagram has begun automatically generating headlines and descriptions for users’ posts that appear in Google Search results — often without users’ knowledge and, in some cases, with misleading or ...