Instagram Will Start Letting You Translate Captions, Comments and Bios
By Lauren Stacy • June 24, 2016
Ever gone scrolling through Instagram and come across a breathtaking photo of the mountains of Iceland, the streets of Thailand, or the jungles of the Amazon and wanted to know what the local photographer had to say about it—only to see the caption was written in a foreign language and there’s no copy-and-paste option to drop it all into Google Translate? We’ve all been there. And now, Instagram is finally going to help us out.
Starting next month, the social media platform will begin offering translations for captions and comments for newsfeed posts written in other languages. The words will be translated automatically based on the original language and the language setting of the user reading it.