How can you save a picture from instagram
How to save and download Instagram photos
Instagram is a fantastic social media platform that we all love for sharing visual content, and discovering exciting visual content from others. Like all social platforms, however, Instagram content can be fleeting and fast-moving, so knowing how to download or save photos and posts is a really useful skill to learn.
Perhaps you want to save your own Instagram photos, either for safe keeping or to share them elsewhere. Maybe you want to download content other users have posted. Or you might want to save your old photos, change your Instagram username, and start fresh with an empty feed. Heck, maybe you're just tired of the app and want to save your memories before deleting your Instagram account altogether.
Whatever your reasoning for wanting to save Instagram photos may be, here's a helpful, step-by-step guide that will teach you how to save photos from the platform.
How to save Instagram photos you've created to your phoneInstagram makes it very easy for you to save photos that you've captured, filtered, and edited in the Instagram app to your phone's photo library.
Open the Instagram app, and head over to your profile by tapping the person-shaped icon or your profile photo shown at the bottom of your screen. (What you see will depend on which version of Instagram your phone has.)
Find your Instagram profile by clicking the person icon. Credit: instagram
Once you've navigated to your own profile page, tap the three horizontal lines menu icon at the top right of your screen.
Yep, click here next. Credit: instagram
Once the menu appears as a pop-up, select to go into "Settings," it's the first option at the top of the list. Next tap on the "Account" option, then finally hit up the "Original Photos" option which will show if you're using an iOS device. Android users will see the option for "Original Posts".
Click "original photos" within your Instagram profile. Credit: Instagram
The Instagram app now gives you the option to automatically save down your Instagram imagery. Hit the blue toggle to "Save Original Photos/Posts.
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Now that this option is turned on, every photo you post on Instagram will also be saved to your phone's photo library. How convenient!
How to save other users' Instagram photosIt's really easy to save an Instagram picture or video posted by anyone (as long as the user is public) to a private area of your Instagram app so that you can view them again at a time that suits you. It's worth noting as well that when you save a post from someone, whether they follow you or not, they will not be able to tell that you've saved it.
To save a post, tap the bookmark icon that appears below it. This will add the post to your generic "Saved" folder.
Create an Instagram collection to save all your favorite posts. Credit: instagram
Alternatively, if you want to save a post to a certain collection within your private saved area, tap and hold the bookmark icon. This brings up a pop-up of the Instagram collections you've already created.
It also gives you the option to create a new collection. This is done by tapping the "plus" symbol.
Curate collections of your favorite images. Credit: instagram
Now, to see the picture or video you've saved and the collections you've created, go to your profile by once again tapping on the person-shaped icon or profile photo at the bottom right of your screen. Then tap the "Saved" option that appears in the pop-up menu. This will show you all the saved content that you bookmarked.
Instagram collections are an underrated feature. Credit: instagram
As we've stated already, only you can see what you've saved, and the collections that you've created. As a reminder, other Instagram users will not know you have saved their content.
How to download Instagram photos using your desktop browserBecause of very valid copyright issues, Instagram does not let you download other users' photos, either on a regular desktop browser, or on an iOS or Android mobile device.
However, there is a slightly sneaky workaround that makes it possible to do it on a desktop browser. Do not use this for evil.
To download any image on Instagram open the image in a fresh browser tab. (Note: If you're trying to open without being logged into your own Instagram account, you'll need to right click on the image and select "Copy Link Address.") Now land near the image and right click your mouse or other input device. You will see a menu pop up. Select "View Page Source."
Going to an Instagram post's backend. Credit: screenshot / instagram
This will bring the page source code up in a separate browser tab. Scroll down through the code, or use your browser's "Find" tool, until you see the first .jpg link you come to.
A gorgeous backend. Credit: screenshot
Copy just the URL text that appears between the two speech, or quotation marks. Paste this URL into another fresh browser tab. Once the image has loaded you can right click to download it to your computer as you would a normal photograph on the internet.
This brief guide should mean you now know how to save your own Instagram imagery to your phone, as well as save Instagram content from your friends and other accounts you follow. Whether you're saving a recipe you want to make later, bookmarking an inspirational quote or helpful activism guide to keep on your phone for when you need it, creating Pinterest-style mood boards for a project, or simply saving a pretty picture, you've now got the knowledge to do it quickly and easily.
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This story was originally published in July 2020 and updated in August 2021.
How to save photos from Instagram
(Image credit: Shutterstock)Wondering how to save photos from Instagram? Unfortunately, a feature within everyone's favorite photo-sharing app doesn’t exist.
While there’s a simple setting feature to save your own posts, it gets a bit trickier if you wish to download a full-resolution .JPG version of a photo from a different user’s account.
Of course, this is by design — you didn't capture the photo, so you probably don't have the copyright to use it. Luckily there’s still a way to save those photos using a web browser. We will show you step-by-step how to save photos from Instagram, whether they’re your own posts or others’.
Why can’t I save photos from Instagram?
Instagram’s copyright rules may explain why the app makes it difficult to save photo posts. If you took an Instagram photo or video, you own the copyright in that post. As the owner of the content, you can prohibit other users from copying or distributing your photos and videos. In an effort to regulate the behavior of 1 billion users, Instagram hinders copyright infringement by omitting an option to save photos directly from the app. For more details, here’s an outline of Instagram’s copyright rules.
How to save your Instagram photos to camera roll
Maybe you want to save photos you take using Instagram’s in-app camera; or maybe you want to save an edited version to your phone’s photo library. Either way, saving your Instagram images to your camera roll is simple. Just enable this one setting in your account and your IG photos will save automatically.
1. Go to your profile page and tap the icon with three horizontal lines in the top right corner.
(Image credit: Tom's Guide/Instagram)2. Tap Settings at the bottom of the menu and select ‘Account.’
(Image credit: Tom's Guide/Instagram)(Image credit: Tom's Guide/Instagram)3. Select ‘Original Photos’ and tap the toggle button next to ‘Save Original Photos.’ As long as this option is turned on, any image you post on Instagram will save to your camera roll.
(Image credit: Tom's Guide/Instagram)How to save photos from Instagram
If you’re not scared of a little coding, there’s a neat feature in the Google Chrome Browser that can help you save photos from Instagram without taking a screenshot.
1. Open Instagram and find the photo you want to save.
2. Tap thee ellipses icon (…) at the top right above the photo you want to save.
(Image credit: Tom's Guide/Instagram)3. Select ‘Go to post’ from the pop out menu.
(Image credit: Tom's Guide/Instagram)4. Right-click and choose “View page source.’
(Image credit: Tom's Guide/Instagram)5. Press Ctrl+F and enter ‘.jpg’ in the search box.
6. Highlight the first link with a .jpg you find and copy.
(Image credit: Tom's Guide/Instagram)7. Open a new web browser tab and paste the link.
8. Right-click and save the photo to your computer.
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Good afternoon, friends.
The Instagram social network is developing rapidly, new functionality appears regularly, errors and problems are fixed. However, each program has its limitations. They can be a flaw of the creators or their conscious decision.
The lack of a direct ability to download photos from Instagram is a feature of this platform. And this can be understood.
People are more willing to post pictures knowing that no one will be able to use them. However, there are workarounds that can be done. We’ll talk about this today and find out how to save photos from Instagram.
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Remember, if Instagram is blocked in any country, you can always access it via VPN.
Saving all photos by email
1. Go to the menu, select the item "Your activity".
2. Click "Download Information".
3. Specify your email address to which to send the photo archive.
4. We go through the protection of information by entering the password for your account.
5. We are waiting for the archive to the mail.
Saving your photos in your phone
Solving this problem is quite simple. We go to the application on a mobile device.
Swipe the screen from right to left and at the bottom of the panel that opens, click on the gear icon.
Go to the "Original Publications" section on an Android phone or "Original Photos" on iPhones.
Here we set the levers to the desired position to save photos and videos on the device.
This is the only way to download images provided by Instagram itself. Everything else is sleight of hand and our resourcefulness.
You can make a free analysis of subscribers through the InstaHero service. You will find out why coverage is falling, who your audience is and what type of content will go best .
Taking a screenshot
This is an accessible way for everyone to copy a photo from someone else's Instagram profile. You can do this on different devices.
On the phone
To take a screenshot, you need to press a specific button or key combination. They differ depending on the brand and model of the gadget. I have an Asus phone, in it I need to press and hold the "Recent Documents" button in the lower right corner.
Possible combinations on phones from other manufacturers:
- screen lock + volume down - they are usually located on the side panel of the device;
- Long press the power button until the menu appears;
- menu button + "Back";
- in iPhones, press the round "Home" button in combination with the lock located on the side of the gadget.
If you can't find the combination or magic button you want, go to the Play Store or App Store and download one of the apps:
- ScreenMaster, Screenshot Easy, Screenshot Pro, Lightshot for Android, or Screen Capture for Windows phones.
Screenshots are saved in a folder with all photos or in a separate section in the gallery.
Please note that everything that is currently visible on the screen will be saved and you may have to crop the picture. I will talk about this further.
Computer
We have an article on our blog about how to take high-quality screenshots. It discusses 5 methods with details and explanations. I will show one of them, which is available to everyone without installing additional programs.
Find the desired photo in the web version of Instagram and press the "Prt Sc" button on the keyboard. It is located at the very top closer to the right edge. Now we go to the Start menu, which is hidden under the Windows icon in the lower left corner of the screen.
And we find the standard program Paint.
Press the key combination "Ctrl" + "V" or find the button "Paste" or "Paste" in the top panel. A screen image should appear in front of us, including the photo we want to save.
We copied the entire screen, but we only need a photo. Therefore, we cut off everything unnecessary. To do this, click on the option "Select" or "Select" and outline the desired area.
Press the key combination "Ctrl" + "C". Then we open a new document.
Click "Insert" and save the resulting image. If it turned out to be smaller than the white field, we remove the empty space for the lower right corner.
Everything, it remains only to save the photo.
Use the address bar
This is a very simple option. Open the post on the web version of Instagram. In the address bar, after the url, add "media? size = l" without quotes.
Press "Enter". The desired photo will appear on the screen.
Right-click on the image and select "Save Image As..."0003
Uploading images through the page code
This method is available only on a computer, I did not manage to perform such a trick on my phone. Open the publication in the web version of the social network, press the right mouse button, then "Page source code".
In the new window, press the combination of buttons "Ctrl" + "F". A search bar will appear at the bottom or top. In it we write "display_resources". The program will highlight the text. We need to copy the line next to this inscription, starting with "https" and ending with "cdninstagram.com" and paste it into the address bar of the browser.
The photo will open. We call the context menu, "Save image as ..." Done, we uploaded a photo from Instagram.
Programs and services
Until now, we have used the tools available to any person on the phone and computer. But there are also specially created programs for downloading photos from Instagram.
Let's consider some of them.
Browser extension
When I need a full version of the application on my computer, I use the Google Chrome extension. To download it, go to the menu, "Additional tools", "Extensions".
Next, click on the 3 bars in the upper left corner and at the bottom click on the link "Open the Chrome Web Store". In the search bar we write "instadesktop". Installing the extension.
After that, an icon will appear on top.
Click on it. We see an image of a phone with a full-fledged version of Instagram and a nice bonus: each photo has a button for downloading it.
Phone programs
There are applications for iPhones and Android devices. All you need to do is go to Play Store or App Store and install one of them:
- InstaSave,
- FastSave,
- QuickSave,
- iSave and others.
They work on approximately the same principle. We go to Instagram, open the publication, click on the three dots next to it and select "Copy link".
Then we go to the application for downloading, insert the address of the publication. After a few simple steps, the photo becomes available for saving.
The simplest and most stable application at the moment is FastSave for Android. Try it in action.
Online services
To download photos from Instagram, it is not necessary to install programs, you can use online services. The most popular resources for this are:
- InstaGrabber.ru,
- instagramgrabber.net,
- savefrominsta.com,
- zasasa.com, www.igrab.ru
- .
They have the same principle. I will show you on the example of the InstaGrabber service.
First, we go to the web version of Instagram and open the post we are interested in. Copy the address from the browser line and paste it into the line on the site instagrabber.ru. And then click on the arrow.
The photo from the publication will appear on the screen. It remains only to click on the "Download photo" button.
How to save other people's posts on Instagram without downloading
If you don't need to download photos to your device, but just save them as a bookmark on your Instagram, click the checkbox under the post you like.
Saved posts can be seen in your profile. On your phone, swipe from right to left and select the appropriate section.
On the web version of Instagram, you just need to go to the "Saved" tab.
To split posts into topics and put them into folders, click on the checkbox and hold this position. A window will appear where you can select a directory or create a new one and save the entry to it. The nice thing is that no one can see these posts on your profile.
Conclusion
So we've covered all the basic ways to copy photos from Instagram. Let me briefly list them again:
- Save your pictures with appropriate settings.
- Take screenshots.
- Add "media?size=l" to the end of the url.
- Extract photos from page code.
- Use third-party services and programs.
- Copy entire posts to your profile.
Use caution when using unverified software. Install a reliable antivirus and, if possible, do not enter data from your main social network account. And remember that all materials published by users on Instagram are protected by law as objects of copyright.
Write in the comments which method you liked best and suited you, what questions remained, what difficulties you encountered.
And I say goodbye to you. Goodbye friends.
Instructions: How to save photos from Instagram to your computer
The social network Instagram quickly gained popularity due to its simplicity. The user just needs to take a photo on a phone or tablet, process it using the tools built into the application and upload it to his account so that the whole world can enjoy it.
Many people use Instagram to view the profiles of celebrities, big stores or just interesting users.
Sometimes you want to save an Instagram photo to your computer in order to add it to your collection, but you can’t do it in the standard way (by right-clicking on the photo and selecting the appropriate item). The developers of the service in a similar way take care of the copyright of users on images. At the same time, bypassing this limitation is quite simple, and in this article we will consider several ways to do this.
Contents: 1. How to save photos from Instagram to a computer without third-party services and applications - Video instruction 2. Saving photos from Instagram on a computer using third-party services 3. Extensions and plugins for saving photos from Instagram
How to save photos from Instagram to a computer without third-party services and applications
Installing additional applications and extensions on a computer, as well as using unfamiliar services on the Internet, is always dangerous, given the number of viruses and scammers.
At the same time, most often such basic actions as saving information from a page can be done without third-party intervention, for example, saving a VKontakte audio recording. You can also save a photo from Instagram to your computer through the page code, and for this you need to do the following:
- Go through the Chrome browser to the page of the photo you are interested in on the Instagram social network and open it;
- Next, press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + U to switch to the page HTML-markup view mode;
- Then press Ctrl+F to start searching the page and look for the line that contains the following combination of characters " og:image ";
- The found line will contain a direct link to the photo, which must be copied and opened in a new tab;
- After that, the photo from Instagram can be saved to the computer.
The instructions above are for the Google Chrome browser, but similar actions can be done in any other browser by defining the button for viewing the HTML markup of the page.
Interesting fact: When you open a photo in a new window, you will notice that the favicon in the browser tab is the icon of the social network Facebook, not Instagram. This is due to the fact that Facebook has completely bought Instagram, and it is on its servers that all user photos are located.
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Saving photos from Instagram on your computer using third-party services
There are dozens of sites on the Internet that allow you to save a photo from the Instagram social network to your computer without any problems. Such services can be arranged in different ways:
- Services replacing Instagram. A striking example of such a resource is Webbygram. On it, the user needs to log in under his account on Instagram, after which all information from it will be loaded in the interface of this service.
The user will be able to upload new photos, like photos, subscribe, unsubscribe and save images. - Sites for downloading photos from Instagram. If you just need to download photos from the Instagram social network to your computer, the Instaport service can handle this task. It is developed by the same team that created the Webbygram service, but it has a different purpose. You will also need to log in to this service, and then you can choose for what period you want to download photos to your computer. Interestingly, the service also allows you to download from Instagram all the photos that the user has recently "liked" or photos with a specific tag, but not more than 500 pieces.
Above are not the only services for saving photos from Instagram. But it is important to remember that for such actions it is better to use trusted sites so as not to lose access to your social network account. If you do not need to bulk upload photos, you can use sites that download photos to your computer from the corresponding link from Instagram without authorization.
