Be very afraid: Instagram now notifies people when you screenshot their pictures

For those still on the know: Instagram users can now see when their followers screenshot their disappearing photos.

I repeat: they can now see when you screenshot their disappearing photos.

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Earlier this week, Instagram announced that it was going all Facebook on us by allowing users to live stream from the app, and that it was going all Snapchat on us by allowing users to send private disappearing photos. To be fair, they’re all just merging into one now.

But what has also been discovered is that, along with these new features comes a screenshot notification function, just like Snapchat’s. So now, when somebody sends you a private disappearing photo and you screenshot it to show all your friends, the sender will now very much be able to see you’ve taken a screenshot of their picture.

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Thankfully, this feature only applies to the private disappearing photos function, and doesn’t appear to send notifications when users screenshot Instagram stories or normal Instagram pictures.

PHEW!

As you can imagine, this new development has been met by a lot of fear, stress, and uncertainty from users who’d believed their screenshotting habits would remain private.

Instagram now notifies if someone takes a screenshot. Be careful @silverbtfpic.twitter.com/n4olOvKg0L

— Travis (@travlim) November 24, 2016

You might want to delete your ‘gram as well…

“now instagram sends you a notification when someone screenshots your photos.” pic.twitter.com/mZZV2VznNC

— amber. (@DAMNBlEBERS) November 26, 2016

Or better still stay on your own

When you take a screenshot of eye candies on instagram to share with your hoe friends but realize there’s now a screenshot notification. pic.twitter.com/clpnfwVbHe

— . (@matthiyass) November 24, 2016

Or some of us that screenshot old cute photos of our crush

I just took a screenshot of someone’s 38 week old Instagram and now they’re gonna get a notification sendhelp pic.twitter.com/8gzHbsu7mP

— David (@WrittenByDavid) November 25, 2016

Instagram has been sending notifications to people when you screenshot their pictures… pic.twitter.com/98Ne7BoHWG

— Emma (@EmmaTribble) November 25, 2016