I was so excited when Emily Bode agreed to design the ring this year. Rings is a small way we look to celebrate some of the most creative people on Instagram. It’s the second year we’ve done this, and it feels good, particularly in the midst of all of this AI mania, to be giving people a small beautiful physical token, in addition to other things, to celebrate their achievements.

Every major platform has had to lean into recommendations — posts from accounts you don't happen to follow — to stay relevant. Going back to a following-only feed would quickly mean a smaller Instagram, with less reach to go around for everyone. That doesn't mean the loss of agency isn't real, or worth solving. Glad to see this becoming an industry-wide direction.

Big day for the Muse team with the introduction of Muse Wonder, our most capable model yet. Wonder is built for the long, messy tasks that can take days to finish. It can carry context about you across conversations and keep working toward your goal through blockers rather than giving up halfway. Personally, I'm most excited for us to work out how to use it to help creatives with their work. Technology should empower people, not replace them.

Once iOS27 reaches a majority of our users though I think we'll revisit this, as ideally we wouldn't be (re)building standard components like this.

As is often the case with features like this one, this post inspired a lot of feedback. Turns out the native tab bar now *does* support images. The remaining challenges are: 1. iOS26 recalculates the color each frame, producing a strobing effect as videos play, iOS27 appears to fix this 2. the current tab bar retracts fluidly during scroll to maximize the content viewing area, the native tab bar doesn't support this 3. swipe gestures that start just above the bar trigger unintended tab switches

This is rad.

Three DM settings worth knowing about. Let me know if there are other controls you’d like to see us build.

Love this, fear is thr enemy of creativity.