Facebook is ever experimenting with ways to make its visual elements more enticing, in lodge to drive college engagement and go along people interested. For example, Facebook added colored backgrounds for text updates in 2016, tested different colored text and backgrounds for comments in 2017, and added video and 360 options for profile embrace photos last yr, among other updates.

And now, there may exist a new visual consideration incoming on The Social Network. According to reverse engineering practiced Jane Manchun Wong, Facebook is at present experimenting with a new set of layout options for multi-image updates, which would enable users to choose different presentation styles for their images.

Facebook photo layouts

As yous can come across in these screenshots, shared by Wong on Twitter, the new process would give users a set of four unlike presentation options for multi-image uploads within a single post. You could choose to highlight certain characteristic images, or give your post a more dynamic manner, or even a colored background, dependent on how you wanted them to await.

The tools seem fairly easy to use - which is primal for Facebook - and could provide some more than interesting mail service options. Though equally with all generic templates, they could also become pretty stale pretty apace.

Interestingly, Instagram has also rolled out something forth similar lines. As function of the app's new Camera update, which is rolling out this week, Instagram has added some new templates for Stories frames, which generate randomly when you tap on the die icon at the top of the screen.

As yous tin can see in this example, shared by user @Satyam_sinha, the new templates offering creative ways to engage your audience, with 'Quote of the Day', 'Quickdraw Challenge' and 'What I'm listening to' frames that users can fill in.

Which does seem a little weird - I mean, if you lot tin't think of updates for yourself, is your social media profile really representative of you? Yous are, of course, adding your ain personalization in, but much like Facebook'due south own update suggestions, which it's tried out in several forms, it seems a niggling foreign that the platform would look to tell you what you might want to share.

Only so again, if it helps Facebook and/or Instagram generate more than engagement, they'll do it, and while, as noted, these types of generic templates tin can go dried, they practise provide some extra prompts to get you thinking of other engagement-boosting options. That'due south specially relevant for brands, who need to stay front of mind with their audiences - if y'all're not certain what to mail, prompts like these can at to the lowest degree help get you thinking.

On Facebook image formats, in that location is potential at that place, and for Instagram, if information technology tin keep adding in new templates, or refreshing those bachelor, it could be an interesting addition.