How To Download All Your Instagram Data

Are your privacy concerns making you to want delete your Instagram?
Privacy advocates have warned time and time again about the amount of information Facebook knows about you – do you know exactly how much?
Before you take steps to delete Instagram, take a look at your Instagram data and what you posted over the years.

Initially, the process to download your data was more difficult, as reported below. But scroll on for the current tutorial, it’s incredibly easy!

Original Instagram “Data Download” tool

In compliance with the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation legislation, social media company Instagram will now allow you to download all your data. By using the “Data Download” tool, you can review the information Instagram has collected on you.

To download your Instagram data, you’ll have to open a browser and go to the official Instagram website. Once you log in, you’ll be greeted by the new Privacy Policy and asked to review exactly what you share with Instagram.

Afterwards, you can go to the “Privacy and security” section and enter your email. In at most 2 days, you will receive all your Instagram information. While you can’t request to download your Instagram data via Android or iOS yet, the feature is currently in the works.

This process is similar to Facebook’s; however, there’s not as much data to sift through. Instagram will only be sending the info it collected starting from December 2017. Among those items, photos, videos, archived stories, and uploaded contacts are likely the most important pieces of data collection. That said, you’ll also be able to view your comments, likes, searches, account settings, as well as the usernames of everyone you follow or follows you.

As mentioned above, this move is not a reaction to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but rather as a measure to comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation which comes into effect on May 25. Under that regulation, upon request, every online company has to provide you with all the data they collected on you.

It even allows you a “right to be forgotten,” which forces the company to delete all your personal information.

Current steps to download your Instagram Data

First, open your Instagram app (works on iPhone and Android too)

Tap on your profile picture in the bottom right and see your profile.

Go to the hamburger menu in the top right and select Your Activity.

Then, simply tap Download Your Information.

This will let you input your email address so you can receive a link which lets you download your Instagram data.

You also have a date range you can use to just see what you posted in a certain interval.

Unlike actually giving up Instagram, this process is pretty easy and straightforward.