If you're the kind of person who runs multiple Instagram accounts—perhaps a personal one and a work one, or a personal one and one themed around your cat—then you've probably been frustrated to have to log into one, log out, and log into the other all the time. We feel for you. We'd probably just install some kind of third-party app and use one with one account and one with the other, assuming Instagram's new crackdown on third-party apps accessing its APIs doesn't mess that up somehow.
However, Android Police reports that the company is now testing a new feature that should make life a lot easier for those with multiple Instagram accounts. If you're taking part in Instagram's betas, those testing the Android version of its beta apps can now access an account-switching feature directly within the app. Just hit up the app's settings and look for the option to add an account. It's as easy as that. Once you've added an extra (or multiple extra) accounts, you'll be able to switch between them by tapping your account's name in the upper-left corner of the app's user profile page.
That's not quite as convenient as, say, being able to tap which account you want a picture to go to after you've shot it. Still, we at least appreciate that Instagram has thrown some kind of bone to those who use more than one account. And it's certainly possible that Instagram might tweak this approach when it rolls the feature out to the general public—that is, assuming it does plan to do so at some point. We don't know what Instagram's thinking for a timeline, or even whether the company's final approach might be exactly what you see in the beta right now.
If you want to try it out for yourself—and any other updates Instagram might throw into some future beta—all you have to do is hit up the website for Instagram's beta program (for Android). Once there, click on the appropriate link for becoming a beta tester, and then make sure you're running the latest (now-beta) version of Instagram's app (which will require to re-install Instagram on your device).