Do you want to abandon Instagram or has your account hacked? Here’s how to back up your photos on our electronic device.
It may happen that you want to detach from social networks by erasing your account, but the risk is to lose the photographic material collected for years. Or, more trivially, it may also happen that an account is hacked and removed against our will. In both cases, Instagram offers a valid solution to make a backup of your photos, hosting it on the personal device.
Save new photos and videos. The easiest way to keep images and videos published on Instagram is Download directly in the smartphone gallery. In this way, it will also be possible to make a backup on storage services such as those offered by Google, Amazon or Apple.
To do this, just open the app, touch your profile image (at the bottom right), then the menu (the three horizontal lines at the top right) and select “Store and download“. From here, options can be activated for automatically save posts, stories and direct both on the phone and in the Internal Instagram archive. As for stories and Reel, however, it is possible to save them manually before publishing them. In the case of storiesEnough touch the three dots (top right) and choose “Save”; for i reeltheDownload option (arrow down) is located among the icons at the bottom, accessible just before the publication. In this way, all the material will also be available outside the app.
Download the contents already published. If the activation of the automatic rescue options has never been performed or if you have forgotten to save some photos or videos, there are still methods to recover the contents already published. From PC or notebook, just access your profile via the Instagram website, scroll through the posts and click on any one to enlarge it. Above, the option “View archive“Allows you to see past stories, As long as I have activated the storage.
To save a photo from the site, you can Add the following wording, “/media? size = l”, at the end of the URL of the photo itself to obtain a high resolution version, saved with a right click. The problem of this procedure is that Each photograph must be saved individually. However, there are also methods to download multiple images simultaneously, relying on extensions such as Esuit Photos Downloader for Chrome and Edge. Unfortunately, this solution does not work with stories, which remain accessible only from the mobile app.
Export all account data. An effective alternative for those who want Delete your profile but hold all the photos is to export the entire data archive.
From the mobile app, just touch the profile icon (at the bottom right), then the menu (at the top right) and choose “Account Center> Your information and authorizations> Download your information”. At this point, you must select “Download or transfer information”, choose the desired account, set the range of dates on “All” and the quality of the media on “high”.
Similarly, we can do it also from PC Following a similar procedure: just go to “Other> Settings” to find the download option. Once the data collection is completed, Instagram will send an email with a link to download a compressed file containing all the photos, videos and other profile information. This file can then be saved locallyon a hard disk or on a cloud service to always have your memories available.
