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Wednesday 11 May 2016 3:55 pm

You’ll soon find Instagram looking very different

By: Lynsey Barber

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Instagram has had a makeover.

The social network that is all about appearances has had its own face lift with a new layout for users and a fresh logo design.

The simple pared back shape of a camera replaces the familiar image of a more real looking camera as your smartphone's app icon.

That design ethos also goes for its other apps – Layout, Boomerang and Hyperlapse.

Read more: Social media is probably making you depressed

Meanwhile, the app itself gets a redesign, again in a pared back style. The heavy blue and black are replaced by a light, bright, white and black text, that "puts more focus on your photos and videos without changing how you navigate the app," the company said in a blog post.

The Instagram community has evolved over the past five years from a place to share filtered photos to so much more – a global community of interests sharing more than 80 million photos and videos every day.

Our updated look reflects how vibrant and diverse your storytelling has become.

No one likes change, but don't worry. There'll still be the same avocado and toast photographing people you've been following as before.

This snazzy little video shows just how the redesign came about.

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