Instagram down: Android app repeatedly crashes leaving users able to post photos
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Your support makes all the difference.Instagram appears to have stopped working for at least some Android users, who report that the app can’t be used without crashing.
Users report seeing the app stop working and then a message that reads: “Instagram keeps stopping”.
Users are given the option of closing the app and trying to load it again, but there appears to be no easy way to stop the crashes from happening.
The problem appears to be a widespread issue in the app itself, rather than the phones running it.
Tracking website Down Detector showed a gradually increasing number of users reporting issues, though far from the flurry of complaints that would normally greet a global outage.
The issues come just days after an outage that left users unable to properly send messages in either Instagram’s DMs or the Facebook Messenger app.
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