Twitter has announced that it’s testing edge-to-edge media in tweets on iOS, making a extra full-screen, virtually Instagram-like expertise for the images and movies in your timeline.

In an e mail to The Verge, Twitter writes that it’s testing the change as a result of it desires to raised assist conversations which might be each visible and text-based. You can get a way of what that appears like in a video posted to Twitter’s assist account:

This change, if it rolls out past a choose group of iOS customers, additionally helps Twitter tackle issues over picture cropping that it’s been coping with over the previous couple of years. Image cropping algorithms have been informally proven to have a bias towards white faces, one thing Twitter confirmed earlier this yr. Twitter has tried to handle that drawback by eliminating picture cropping, however this design take a look at takes issues a step additional with an Instagram-style emphasis on visuals. Entire joke codecs get misplaced within the course of, however such is the price of progress.

Naturally, some folks have already taken challenge with Twitter’s design. Searches for “New Twitter” convey up loads of complaints, like that the brand new structure is headache-inducing and that edge-to-edge screenshots of tweets can confusingly look like an actual tweet. Clearly, Twitter may need some extra tweaking to do earlier than this take a look at turns into one thing official.