Google is partnering with Meta to address the longest-standing frustrations of Android users with Instagram's image quality. This collaboration will bring Ultra HDR capture and playback, bringing richer, more lifelike colours to photos shared on the platform, built-in video stabilisation for smoother handheld footage, and Night Sight integration on Instagram with Android 17.
Google has announced that it is teaming up with Meta and introducing new features to Instagram. These include Ultra HDR capture and playback support for more lifelike and vibrant colours, built-in stabilisation for videos, allowing creators to make steadier videos on the go, and Google's low-light photography capabilities directly into the Instagram camera.
Google has also completely overhauled the capture-to-upload pipeline to ensure photos and videos retain their original high quality when posted on the platform. The company tested side-by-side results, and the image quality scored similarly to, if not better than, what was uploaded from an iPhone.
Beyond the camera upgrades, Instagram's Edits app is also getting a set of AI-powered tools exclusively on Android 17. The first is Smart Enhance, which uses on-device AI to upscale photos and videos with a single tap.
The second is Sound Separation, which can identify and isolate individual audio tracks, including wind, background noise, and music, letting creators boost the sounds they want and remove what they do not.
All of these features are expected to roll out to Android phones later in the summer, similar to Screen Reactions. However, no specific release date is confirmed yet, but we can expect them to be available sometime around the Android 17 stable release.
