Unfortunately, the profile picture and background header photo are often an afterthought ... Some users simply use the default image of the blue gradient with dots and lines, perhaps because ...

If you take a photo in the app and then shrink it down ... it in the disappearing Stories section, you will get a blue background by default. There's no real way of changing this, as it's a ...

If your Instagram photos aren’t getting ... Make sure the blue colour takes up more than 20 per cent of screen. Leave enough background space, and don't crop in images too closely.