Eager to one-up Snapchat, Instagram appears to be preparing to enlarge its collection of shutter modes beyond options like Boomerang and Super-zoom. Buried within Instagram’s Android Application Package is an icon for a Portrait shutter for the Stories camera. This could potentially let people shoot stylised portraits with broke effect-blurred backgrounds or other lighting effects.

TechCrunch reader exclusively shared the images below with TechCrunch after decompiling the APK, which is the file format equivalent of Windows’ .exe but for Android. The icon would show up overlaid on the Instagram Stories camera shutter button when you swipe to the corresponding mode.

Instagram declined to comment on the findings, though it did the same when we asked about a Giphy GIF-sharing feature which then officially launched a week later. Instagram could always decide against publicly releasing these new features, though, if internal strategy or external testing turns against them.

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