Instagram client 6tag gets regram, location awareness and new Live Tiles in latest update

6tag, the defacto Instagram client for Windows Phone 8 users has received another update tonight, just i calendar week after its last. Version 1.v is now live in the Shop afterwards being teased by developer Rudy Huyn earlier in the week.

Version 1.5 though is non issues fixes but some very interesting new features, which will only aid solidify 6tag as the go-to Instagram client for Windows Phone.

6tag version one.5 changes

View posts around your position
Regram: share an existing Instagram post
two new alive tiles: pin your feed or your profile
Manage new Instagram securities

Those are some fairly significant additions to the app. Let'due south take a closer wait.

Geolocation and Instagram posts

While in the main feed of the app, users can tap the menu dots well-nigh the lesser and select 'nearby' to bring up a stream of photos around their location. That volition certainly keep you decorated if you're ever bored and want to see what's going on effectually you (or without you, sad confront).

About the lesser of the geolocation feed are two options (both oddly say 'map'); one volition allow you to modify the altitude and the other shows a physical map with the Instagram photos and their locations. Y'all can as well move around the map and hitting 'refresh' to focus on a specific expanse.

Share that Instagram photograph

Regram is a new characteristic on Instagram that allows you to pass on someone else'south Instagram mail. It'south the retweet of the Instagram earth and a useful characteristic should you come up across something fascinating.

New Live Tiles

As yous can see in our pb prototype, you can now pin your Feed and Profiles to your Start screen, including double wide sizes. For the Feed, you'll just see 'instagram' near the bottom with the latest photograph pulled downwards every 30 minutes. For your feed, you become a small icon with your profile picture, your proper name in the depression left corner and your latest image.

Overall, the update is quite impressive, although we tend to e'er expect these things from Rudy Huyn.

A few issues

At that place is a minor bug though for users who need to "approve" a follower request and connecting to Facebook. Plain information technology'south not possible to accept that request in the app and some are having trouble with instantiating an initial Facebook connection (Facebook reportedly changed a setting, causing the effect). Fixes for both bugs are coming in version one.v.i, which has already been submitted to the Store. Look for it real soon.

For at present, head to the Shop and pick up 6tag version one.5 with all of those new features hither. Windows Phone 8 just.

Thanks, Vardis Five., for the tip

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