Instagram’s ‘rage shake’ lets you report app issues

Yes, we’ve probably all been there. So in an effort to give users an emotive solution, Instagram has introduced “Rage Shake,” a colorful new feature to gain feedback from its users.

You know the feeling when Instagram just isn’t cooperating — maybe it’s a bug, maybe it’s slow.

But you just can’t post the pictures you’ve been waiting to share all day.

The feature will allow people to literally shake their phones, after which a pop-up will allow problems or bugs to be reported, in detail.

You ever use Instagram, and it wasn’t working like it was supposed to?” Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, said in a Twitter announcement yesterday.

“And it was really getting you, really pissing you off?”

Instagram isn’t the first platform to introduce this sort of movement.

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Google Maps has allowed user to shake their phones to report incorrect information or bugs since 2012. Meanwhile, Snapchat has done the same for over a year now.

Rage shake is available on iOS and Android, only in the U.S. for the moment.

The feature was rolled out alongside another addition: being able to delete a single image from a photo carousel. So instead of deleting an entire post, you can select individual images out of a carousel and remove them — a feature users have been requesting for a while. This one is available only on iOS, according to Mosseri, but will roll out on Android shortly.

Mashable