Instagram Unveils 'Edits' Video App, New iPhone Leak Reveals Apple's Design Choices

Instagram Unveils New Video Editing App ‘Edits’ on Same Day as TikTok Ban

While TikTok was struggling to unblock the app in the United States on Sunday. Instagram was introducing a cutting tool for videos with plans for a February launch. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri shared on Sunday, the same day the United States legally restricted TikTok. The Meta-controlled Instagram will introduce a new app called Edits for post modifications. Mosseri announced Edits on the same day that the United States prohibited CapCut. It is a ByteDance-owned mobile video editing software, alongside TikTok on Sunday.

As per USAToday Now, a lot is happening in the world right now and whatever happens. We believe it is our responsibility to build the best creative suite for those of you who create videos not only for Insta. However for other platforms out there, as we can, Mosseri said in the announcement video. Mosseri said that for now, users can pre-order Edits for free from the Apple App Store. It will soon be available for download from the Google Play Store.

Until Sunday, Edits is available for free pre-order download at the Apple App Store only. While announcing the update, Mosseri expected the first version of Edits to roll out in February. Although the App Store listing set March 13 for its release. Edits will enable users to upload and record videos and share them to Instagram Reels and monitor their performance on Instagram Reels. Edits will enable the making of videos that can be as long as 10 minutes and with a resolution of 1080p as described on the App Store for Apple. The platform will also provide artificial intelligence animation, generative captions and overlays as text, sound and voice effects, filters and stickers.

New iPhone Leak Reveals Apple’s Design Choices.

The released images show the layout of this year’s new iPhone SE, which is the first mid-range Apple smartphone in three years. The latest scoop comes from longtime Apple leaker Sonny Dickson. His exclusive images represent Apple’s fifth-generation iPhone SE design. Apple released the last iPhone SE model in 2022 and plans to launch the successor. It will run on iOS, in the first half of 2025. In the images presented by Dickson, we can see two of the so-called ‘blanks’ that Apple usually provides to peripherals and accessory makers before a launch.

This enables the manufacturers to operate on a device with the right dimensions, button placements and controls as the handset. Of course, Apple prefers this scenario as it can hide the actual details and software from view and control. Nevertheless, the blanks allow us to examine Apple’s approach to design and its implications for SE.

As reported in Forbes it is also very easy to see the controls and ports on the right-hand side of the iPhone SE. A tangible SIM card slot is at the lowest end of the spectrum. Above that is another button, and there are two volume control buttons, and above them is the familiar mute button. Apple has removed this switch from newer iPhone models in favour of a customizable Action Button.

Apple took that idea further by adding the Camera Control capacitive button to the iPhone 16 range, but neither feature seems to have been added to the iPhone SE design. However, the older toggle switch used to mute the iPhone is coming back instead. The iPhone SE was advertised to be cheaper than a regular iPhone at the time of its launch. It is just the material cost of a capacitive-style button would be far higher than the cost of an old-school switch.