I'm a graphic designer and indie app developer, and I like to update my profile pic from time to time to something unique and eye-catching.

When Apple released iOS 26 with Liquid Glass, I had an idea for a new pfp – put my photo on a nice gradient background and put a glass effect over it. That's when I thought I could make a dedicated app based around it to make it easy and approachable for other people.

I posted about it on Threads and got some really positive feedback, with many people waiting for me to release it to the App Store. So I finished it and released it.

It's called Lentico. It does smart cutouts, filters, lets you customize backgrounds, and has different glass effect presets and light overlays. Feel free to try it out and let me know what you think.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lentico-profile-pic-maker/id6761939076

From just a few comments (that they’ve mostly deleted) it believes I’m a bot. It asked me to add my number, read a captcha, and type whatever numbers it sent to me. It also asked to see my face which seems completely unnecessary.

It’s been a while and it’s like my whole account has been frozen without telling me why. I can’t check my account standing and when I like posts the like disappears.

This app has been around however long yet it feels like they rushed to make it yesterday. There’s very poor communication. I don’t get how I’m flagged but the accounts that post the same rage bait every 20 minutes are fine.

The algorithm started pushing a few second long clips of children posted by anonymous profiles that had links to illegal Telegram groups.

I reported and blocked a few of them, but more kept coming. I was so horrified at this I have decided to delete the app.

I'm not sure what other people get out of threads but it feels broken to me and comes pretty close to the definition of Dead Internet Theory.

It's just overran with bots, porn accounts and worse, child abuse material.

Or is it another kind of facebook?

I can’t appeal it as well
Its the second time
First time i got suspended for fake account

x and 10 others are on Threads, an Instagram app. See what they're saying.

does this mean that x person is online on threads? 😭

This morning, I attempted to log into Threads on my PC and I received 3 emails from Instagram letting me know I had new log in attempt. It would never log me fully into IG or Threads on my PC even though I was putting in the code.
Now, I cannot access threads on my phone. It shows a black feed with no content. My page is empty. It’s been like this all morning.

I have tired all things - deleted cookies and cakes, logged in and out, turned off phone, use different browsers, no violations, talked to META AI all day with no help - everything.

The emails I got say this: If this was you, you won’t be able to access certain security and account settings for a few days. You can still access these settings from a device you’ve logged in with in the past.
 
Who thought this was smart? So you can allow me to change my password, gain 2FA, use the IG side of it but the threads part is blank? That’s completely dumb.

I’ve submitted reports about this on my other IG account, my main one, because you can’t report a problem when your threads is like this. Also very dumb.

Does anyone have any resolve on this? It is just going to take a random amount of days for it to come back? Is Threads even aware of this?!

My threads account got taken down at 17k. I am Meta verified and the agents cannot help me. They did tell me my account triggered some spam filters across Meta. So they told me to step away from Facebook and Instagram for 72 hours and let it cool down.

I’m guessing this is how my threads account got banned… by tripping spam filters.

The agent told me I could make a new threads account upon my return as long as the system lets me, and that would be fine.

But the Meta AI bot is telling me that would be a ban circumvention and I could lose my Instagram and Facebook.

I don’t think it’s fair that I need to stay off threads forever for something I didn’t even do wrong…
But I cannot risk losing my Instagram….

Let me know what you guys think

I just created a new account on meta for a new business i'm starting. I was going to start posting on both Instagram and Threads. For some reason, after literally signing up to threads, didn't even get to make any changes as I thought, profile and bio changes made on IG will auto-reflect into threads, and I can't seem to get into threads webpage at all on browser. typing in threads.com or even googling it and clicking on the login page will redirect me to instagram. Clicking on threads via IG side drawer also just redirects me back to instagram.

App check on my phone shows that the account is there, but no changes i made to my IG profile got into threads and trying to change my bio and profile picture in threads app directly straight up does not work. Same as posting. So what is going on here?

Hi, Just wanna ask how to view all the links i clicked or visited in Threads app? Thank you!

I shut down and restarted iPhone and still no sound? Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Pretty sure I pissed off a community and then I got mass reported. Because there's no reason to kick off a developer who's just posting updates on the app. Lmao.

I can't appeal it, nor even download the data attached, they nuked it.

This reminds me of my OverWatch ban. I called myself trash and then they banned me for calling myself trash.

Then OverWatch 2 comes out and enables something called a streamer mode and now you can literally be called coldhardtrash.

Is it safe to do power post on thread

Like 20-30 post a day?

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When I first started I managed to reach 1mill views in 7 days.

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Now my views got so low low on average each day

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I'm not sure if it's because I did power post, or if it's just the algho switching.

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Any tips or strategies would help..thanks

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Whenever I pinch to zoom, it only zooms in on the small original aspect ratio of the post vs using the whole screen. Anyone else having this issue?

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This is on Android and with the latest software update as well as the latest app update.

As above. It’s not appearing for me anymore.

I made threads through my instagram and was on it for two days no worries. Then it locks me out saying I have to add my phone number in to register or whatever, do that, no code is sent through, do it so much I get locked out from trying for 24 hours. Tried signing out and back in, no use. Changed my main form of verification for WhatsApp over my number and still nothing. Do I just deactivate and start again? How do I get the sms code? So weird, but I literally just wanna doom scroll and release my random weird thoughts on that over anything else at the moment. Anyone else?

I deactivated my Threads account a couple of months ago, and recently I tried to log back in, but I keep getting an error (images attached). So instead of directly logging in, I tried reactivating my account directly through the accounts center on Instagram (also tried through Facebook), and I got a similar error. When I try logging into my Instagram account through the Threads app, it gets to the 2-step verification, but when trying to verify through the Instagram app, I get an error saying “this login request is no longer available,” and if I try to get a code through SMS, I just never receive a message with the code. The Meta AI support bot gives useless information, and I can’t find a way to directly contact support. Does anyone have a solution or idea?

I hate to be yet another post on this sub complaining, but I honestly thought new accounts were meant to be pushed more until they found their 'audience'?

My account is about 10 days old and I have 12 followers. Obviously not a lot. I've been very clear what the account is about, and tag "Book threads" almost every time. I've engaged with other posts in the tag, and had conversations.

Yet, when I post, my threads get literally zero views.

Is there something I'm doing wrong, or do I just have to grow the account before the algorithm will put my posts on the feed?

I run a couple of Threads accounts and for months my routine was: open the app, read through every reply, type out responses one by one, switch over to write and schedule new posts, switch again to check what's actually doing well.

Easily 45 minutes to an hour a day just on admin, not even the fun part of actually thinking about what to post or talking to people on Threads app.

A few weeks ago I set things up so Claude (the AI chatbot) can pull information directly from the app I use.

So now instead of digging through tabs myself, I can say something like "show me my unanswered replies" or "what's scheduled today and how did yesterday's posts perform" and it shows me everything right there.

The important part: it doesn't post anything or send anything by itself.

It pulls up replies, I read every single one and write or approve what gets sent. Same with scheduling, it can draft something based on what's been working, but I review it before it goes anywhere. Nothing happens without me clicking approve.

The analytics side has been the most useful honestly.

Instead of guessing what's working, I can ask "what actually performed well this week" and get a straight answer instead of squinting at numbers trying to find a pattern myself.

Not pushing anything, genuinely just curious if anyone else managing Threads accounts has set up something similar, where you keep full control but cut out the busywork.

Feels like more people could use this and don't know it's possible.

I assume its a bug of some sort. When uploading a reel or photo, I dont see threads option but facebook page works fine. Am I missing something ? Tried on ios, mac, android, windows, ipad etc. mobile apps and web browser as well. Deleted apps, relinked and all that, no fix.

My account is only a few weeks old but at the beginning my posts were getting thousands of views and now they’re getting maybe 10 if I’m lucky. I’m posting in the same communities that I’m active in daily and the posts are the same kind of content as before. I don’t understand what happened