Instagram has now added a tagging feature to its photos. Instagram, the wildly popular photography app, has added a feature that allows users to tag people. They have just launched a new "Photos of You" feature for its iPhone or iOS users. Instagram users can tag themselves or friends. The feature operates in much the way Facebook's photo tagging feature does. Instagram users will be able browse feeds of photos they or others appeared in thanks to the tagging feature.

Before this, the only way for users to find out if a picture of them was uploaded to Instagram was to go through their activity feeds and see if someone had mentioned their usernames in captions, or to look through photos manually. There has also not been an easy way for a user to share a photo a friend uploaded to their own feeds so that their followers can see it. Users have sometimes resorted to taking screenshots of friend's photos and reposting them. Now, with tagging, they will simply click on a face and tag it, rebroadcasting it to their own feed.

Mentions or callouts of usernames (e.g. @username) in comments will not automatically be converted into tags. Users must tag themselves manually, one by one, in both old and new photos.

Much like in Facebook's tagging feature, Instagram users will be able to hide photos they don't like from their profile via a new "Photos of You" tab. This will take care of unflattering or embarrassing photos being seen by others. If the photo is hidden, the picture will not appear on their profile, but the tag will still be visible if the photo is clicked on. If users don't like the photo at all, the tab will also allow them to select "Remove Me from Photo", removing the tag altogether. There will also be an option to select "Add Manually", so that if someone else tags a user, the photos must be approved before the tag appears.

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