If you’re an avid Instagram user, you know that the app doesn’t allow you to download photos or videos. This can be frustrating, especially if you want to save or share a post. Luckily, there are a few workarounds that will let you download Instagram media. In this article, we’ll show you how to do it.
How to Download Your Own Instagram Media
Assuming you already have the Instagram app installed on your smartphone, open the app and sign in. Go to your profile by tapping on the person icon at the bottom right of the screen. On your profile, tap the three dots at the top right of the screen and select “Settings.” In the Settings menu, scroll down and tap “Download Data.” You’ll be taken to a page where you can request your data. Tap “Request Download” at the bottom of the page. You’ll be prompted to enter your email address—enter the email address you used to sign up for Instagram. Instagram will then send you an email with a link to download your data.
Click the link in the email and you’ll be taken to a page where you can download your data. The data will be downloaded as a ZIP file. Once the file has downloaded, open it and you’ll find all of your photos and videos in the “media” folder.
How to download Instagram media of others
Now while you still have access to your own content, what about the content that others post. While scrolling through Instagram feed there are multiple pictures and videos, also stories, reels and highlights that we wish to download, but how to download them to your device is the question.
There is an Insta Zoom tool that you can use to download Instagram media. This is free to use, and they make it easy to download Media from Instagram. This tool allows you to download any Instagram media like story, reel, video, photo etc.
Here’s how to download any video/reel using these tools:
To download any Instagram reel or video, simply open an Instagram reel downloader. Now open the reel or video you wish to download and tap on the three dots given in the lower right corner, from the options list choose “Copy URL.” option, and then paste the URL into the field provided on the third-party reel/video downloader, and press on the tool will fetch the media for you. Simply tap on the download button over the reel/video to save it to your gallery.
How to download Instagram photos using third-party apps:
Simply download one of these apps from the App Store. Simply go to the profile of the person on your Instagram app, whose photo you want to download, and then tap on the three dots in the top right corner. From there, you will see an option to “Copy URL.” Tap on that, and then paste the URL into the search bar on the third-party photo downloader, and pressing on the tool will fetch the picture for you. Simply tap on the download button over the picture to save it to your gallery.
How to download stories and highlights using third-party apps:
Go to the profile of the person whose story or highlight you want to download. Now copy the username of the person. Now open any Instagram story downloader from Google and in the field provided paste the username of the person. The tool displays all the stories posted by that person in the 24 hours along with the highlights added by the person. Simply tap on any story or highlight to view it and tap on the download button over the story to save it to your gallery.
