A week after Apple released its next-generation mobile operating system, Instagram has updated its app to take advantage of iOS 6.

A week after Apple released its next-generation mobile operating system, Instagram has updated its app to take advantage of iOS 6.

Instagram version 3.1.0 rolled out Tuesday to all iOS users and is now also optimized for the iPhone 5. That means the app stretches to fit the upgraded smartphone's new 4-inch screen, but as Slashgear noted, the capture window does not fill the whole screen, oddly.

The blog said live filters, which let you pick a filter before snapping a photo, are not available on the iPhone 5 but were live on an iPhone 4S running iOS 6. On the iPhone 5, you can select your filter after taking a pic.

The upgrade also sports improved password recovery, a redesigned registration flow, bug fixes, and other improvements, according to the Apple iTunes Store description.

The last Instagram update   was released last month for iOS and Android users, with the addition of an interactive "photo map." The feature lets users plot on a world map where their images were taken, creating a sort of geographic album.

Version 3 also included speed improvements for a more responsive app, especially on newer devices, as well as the ability to now report individual comments as abuse or spam. User profiles were also tweaked to display a larger grid of photos, and the photo upload screen now provides a larger text box, making it easier to write photo captions.

Early this month, Instagram and Facebook finally . The social network said it is committed to building Instagram independently, while the photo-sharing application team promised the app and its features will stay the same.

Following the Facebook purchase, Google last week , maker of the popular Snapseed photo editing and sharing app, and an Instagram rival. Snapseed is available for iOS devices, as well as Windows and Mac computers, and Nik is working on an Android version of the $4.99 iPhone app.

The Instagram update is now available for free in the iTunes App Store.

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