Everything about Instagram layout in 2026: the Layout app is discontinued, the grid changed to 3:4, and you cannot rearrange posts. Here is what replaced each feature.
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Looking for the Layout collage app? The standalone Layout app by Instagram was discontinued on May 29, 2024. The collage feature still exists, but it moved into the main Instagram app inside Stories creation. Jump to the Layout app section below.
Looking for the Instagram grid layout or profile layout? Instagram changed the profile grid from square (1:1) to vertical (3:4) in early 2025. You cannot revert to the old square grid, and you cannot rearrange existing posts. Jump to the grid layout section below.
No. The Layout app was discontinued on May 29, 2024 and is no longer available for download. Layout features moved into the main Instagram app for Stories creation.
If you search for Layout in the App Store or Google Play, you will find third-party apps with similar names that are not made by Instagram. These are separate products from other developers. They work for creating collages but they are not the official Instagram Layout app.
Instagram built the collage functionality directly into the main app rather than maintaining a separate standalone tool. The Layout feature now lives inside the Stories camera. You can access it the same way you would access Boomerang or other creative formats when creating a Story.
The Layout feature inside Stories supports up to six photos in a single collage, arranged across a selection of preset grid templates.
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The native Layout tool only works for Stories. If you want to create a collage for a feed post, you need a third-party app.
The most commonly used alternatives are Canva, which has a free collage maker with preset Instagram dimensions, and Adobe Express, which works similarly. Both let you export at 1080 x 1080px or 1080 x 1350px and share directly to Instagram. A number of dedicated collage apps also exist on the App Store and Google Play under names like Layout for Instagram, though these are third-party products, not Instagram's own tool.
Instagram changed its profile grid from a square (1:1) format to a vertical (3:4) format in early 2025. Every post on your profile now displays as a taller vertical rectangle rather than a square. This applies to all posts, including ones uploaded before the change.
Instagram now crops all photos to fit the new 3:4 profile grid, regardless of their original aspect ratio. Each image is center-cropped in the grid view. However, original images remain unchanged and display in their full aspect ratio when clicked and opened.
The profile grid previews posts at 3:4. The feed still displays posts at their original uploaded aspect ratio, with 4:5 (1080 x 1350px) being the most commonly recommended format for vertical feed posts.
The practical difference: a post designed at 4:5 will be slightly cropped at the top and bottom when it appears in your profile grid, because the grid crops to 3:4. A post designed at 3:4 (1080 x 1440px) will display with no cropping on the grid at all.
You cannot change the Instagram profile grid layout. Since the early 2025 update, users can no longer change their Instagram grid layout. The 3:4 vertical grid is applied to all accounts and cannot be switched back to square.
What you can control is how your content looks within that grid by choosing the right post dimensions when you design and upload content.
You cannot. The square grid is no longer an option on Instagram. The only way to control how your posts appear on the grid is to design posts at 3:4 (1080 x 1440px), which fills the grid preview without any cropping.
If your profile grid looks different than it did a year or two ago, it is because Instagram changed the grid dimensions in early 2025. Posts that used to display as clean squares now show a taller vertical crop. The underlying images are unchanged, but the thumbnail proportions have shifted.
Instagram does not currently offer a post rearrangement feature for the profile grid. Your posts appear in reverse chronological order and cannot be manually reordered.
The only way to control the appearance of your profile grid in sequence is to plan what you post and in what order before publishing. Several third-party planning tools let you preview what your profile grid will look like before you post, including Later, Preview, and Planoly, all of which show a visual mock-up of your grid using the current 3:4 preview format.
Since you cannot rearrange posts after publishing, planning before you post is the only way to control how your grid looks as a cohesive whole.
The approach most brands and creators use is:
Rather than posting individual pieces one at a time, plan a set of posts that work together visually across the 3:3 or 3x6 grid view you want to control.
Apps like Later, Preview, and Planoly let you drag and drop upcoming posts into your grid before publishing, so you can see how they will look together.
This is the only dimension that fills the profile grid preview with no automatic cropping. If you use 4:5, the grid will center-crop the image slightly.
Regardless of the post format, faces, text, logos, and key visual elements should sit in the center third of the frame to survive both the feed display and the grid crop.
Beyond the profile grid, Instagram's overall app layout has also changed significantly. Instagram's bottom navigation bar has been fully restructured: Reels and DMs now occupy the two most prominent positions, and the dedicated Create button has been removed from the bottom bar entirely. Creating a post now lives in the top-left corner.
This means the muscle memory many users built around the old Instagram layout, including where to tap to post, how to navigate between sections, and where to find DMs, no longer applies to the current version of the app.
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No. The standalone Layout app was discontinued by Instagram on May 29, 2024. The collage feature moved into the main Instagram app and is now accessible inside the Stories camera as a format option.
Open the Stories camera, scroll through the format options at the bottom, and tap Layout. This is where the collage creator now lives inside the main Instagram app.
The standalone app is not. The feature itself is still available inside Instagram Stories. Third-party apps with similar names exist on the App Store and Google Play but are not made by Instagram.
For Stories collages, use the built-in Layout feature inside Instagram's Stories camera. For feed post collages, use Canva or Adobe Express, both of which support Instagram dimensions and are free to use.
The new 3:4 profile grid rolled out automatically to all Instagram accounts in early 2025. There is nothing to enable or switch on. Every account now has the vertical grid format.
You cannot. The square grid is no longer available on Instagram. The 3:4 vertical grid is applied to all accounts and cannot be changed.
Instagram changed the profile grid from square (1:1) to vertical (3:4) in early 2025. Posts that previously displayed as squares on your profile now show a taller vertical crop. The underlying images are unchanged.
The Instagram profile grid display is set by Instagram and cannot be customized by users. What you can control is the dimensions you upload content at. Posting at 1080 x 1440px (3:4) produces the most consistent grid display without automatic cropping.
Instagram does not currently support post rearrangement. Posts appear in reverse chronological order on your profile and cannot be manually reordered. Use a grid planner like Later or Preview to plan the visual sequence of posts before publishing.
Later, Preview, and Planoly are the most commonly used tools for planning Instagram grid layouts. All three let you drag and drop upcoming posts into a visual grid preview before publishing, using the current 3:4 grid format.
Yes. Later and Preview both offer free plans with basic grid planning functionality. Canva also has a free grid preview feature. Planoly has a free tier with limited scheduling slots.
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