How to zoom in on Instagram photos

Everybody loves Instagram, but most of us wish there were a few extra features in the app, like the ability to zoom into photos to check out a particular detail. Instagram doesn't include this feature because it wants the app experience to be as fast as possible, but what if I told you that the Android system itself had a built-in Instagram zoom feature? Read on to find out how to zoom into Instagram photos.

've written previously about the awesome Accessibility settings on Android that pretty much no one ever uses. But there's a whole bunch of cool stuff in there that's worth checking out. One of those things is a system-wide zoom gesture.

Called Magnification Gestures, all you need to do is go to your Accessibility settings and flip the switch, then you'll have two different magnification gestures at hand that work anywhere in Android (except the navigation bar and on the keyboard). That means it works in Instagram – and any other app for that matter.

Once you've enabled Magnification Gestures you just triple-tap anywhere on the screen to zoom in. Your screen will get an orange border to indicate you're magnified (in case you couldn't tell).

Once you're zoomed in you just use two finger swipes to pan and the usual pinch gestures to zoom in or out. To get out of magnification, simply triple-tap again.

Did you know you could workaround the lack of zoom in Instagram? Any other Instagram tips to share?