Instagram is arguably the most popular social media in the world. People take photos, follow interesting celebrity and non-celebrity accounts every day. What drives users crazy is that it is not possible to allow us to save photos to our iPhone or PC..
Also read: How to recover my photos on iPhone? (opens new window)
If you usually browse photos on Safari or other apps with iPhone, you had to have a "Save image" option by long pressing the photos. However on Instagram there is no similar option. In order to protect the copyright of the photos, Instagram forbids us to directly save the photos from the application.
So what do we do if we want to keep Instagram photos in our album? This does when one wants to make a copy of the published photos or dismiss a glance at the great photos of others. If you don't know how to do it, here is the solution..
Save Instagram Photos to iPhone
# Your Instagram photos
You can save photos that you filtered or edited on Instagram to your iPhone by opening the “Save Original Images” feature.
On Instagram, enter your profile, click the “Settings” icon in the top left corner. Expand the "Options" list and find the "Save original images" button, then check the button..
So when you post a photo to Instagram, the photo will be automatically saved to the album. You can find her in the album named Instagram.
# Other Instagram photos
There is no direct way to save Instagram photos of your friends to your iPhone. If you just want to upload one or two photos, taking a screenshot can do it.
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Find the photos you want to keep, press both the Home button and the Power button to take a screenshot.
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Open your iPhone photo, click the screenshot and hit the "Crop" button back. Erasing the background, you type “Done”. So you can have a photo copy of Instagram.
If you think a catch is difficult, we also have flavors to help you, such as InstaSave, SaveGram, Instagrab, GramDrive.
Save Instagram Photos to Your PC
# Use HTML code
This way can be applied to save photos no matter yours or others.
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Identify yourself on instagram.com. Find the photos you want to keep on your or someone else's profile.
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Select the photo, right click on it, and choose "Show page source code" . You can open a page with HTML code of the profile.
- Press the "Ctrl + F" combination button ('Command + F' for Mac) , it will pop up a grab bubble. Type "jpg" and click "Enter". The first line colored with "jpg" is the link of the photo you want to save.
- Copy the link, paste the link into a new window, and click "Enter". You can see the picture. Right click on the photo and choose "Save Image As" to save the photo to your computer.
# Use FonePaw iPhone Data Recovery
If you think the HTML code complicated, you can use a tool - FonePaw - iPhone Data Recovery (opens new window) to save your Instagram photos in bulk to your computer.
- Download FonePaw iPhone Data Recovery to your computer, open the program and connect your iPhone with computer via USB cable.
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The program will quickly detect your iPhone. Have your iPhone scanned and the program will start scanning documents from the iPhone.
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After scanning, click on "App Photo" . It will have a folder containing all of your Instagram photos. If not, you might find the photos in the album.
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Choose the photos you want, and click "Recover" . All your instagram photos will be saved to your computer with one click.
Apart from copying your photos from Instagram, FonePaw iPhone Data Recovery is capable of recovering deleted photos, even videos, messages, call logs and contacts on your iPhone.
