Instagram Help Center

To get to your account settings:

1. Go to your profile by tapping .
2. Tap in the top right.
3. Tap Settings.

• Find and invite friends
• View photos you've liked
• Log out of your account
• Adjust your push notifications

We may send notifications for several reasons, including:

• Someone liking or commenting on one of your photos or videos
• Someone mentioning you in a comment

You can adjust your push notifications from your account settings.

You can choose to get push notifications when someone likes or comments on your post. If you have notifications turned on, you can also choose accounts that you want to receive notifications about.

To turn push notifications on or off:

1. Go to your profile and tap .
2. Tap Settings.
3. Tap Push Notifications and adjust your settings.

To receive notifications about specific accounts that you follow, go to the profile or that account and tap (iPhone) or (Android) > Turn on Post Notifications.

If you've added multiple Instagram accounts, you may get push notifications from any account that has them turned on. This depends on when you last logged in and the number of devices that are logged in to an account.

To quickly see the number of notifications for each account you've added, go to your profile and tap your username at the top.

Learn more about adjusting push notifications.

When you add multiple Instagram accounts, you can switch between them without having to log out and log back in. To add multiple Instagram accounts:

1. Go to your profile and tap .
2. Tap Settings.
3. Scroll to the bottom and tap Add Account.
4. Enter the username and password of the account you'd like to add.

To switch between accounts you've added:

1. Go to your profile.
2. Tap your username at the top of the screen.
3. Tap the account you'd like to switch to.

Keep in mind that you can add up to 5 accounts.

You can remove an Instagram account from your iOS device. Log out of the unwanted account using the following steps:

1. Switch to the account you'd like to remove.
2. Go to your profile and tap .
3. Tap Settings.
4. Scroll down and tap Log out of [username] or Log out of All Accounts.
5. Choose whether to remember the password, then tap Log out.

If you select Log out of [username], you'll remain signed into your other Instagram accounts. Selecting Log out of all accounts will remove all of the accounts you've added on your phone.

If you've added multiple Instagram accounts, you may get push notifications from any account that has them turned on. This depends on when you last logged in and the number of devices that are logged in to an account.

To quickly see the number of notifications for each account you've added, go to your profile and tap your username at the top.

Learn more about adjusting push notifications.

You can save photos that you've filtered and edited on Instagram to your phone. To save your photos to your phone:

1. Go to your profile and tap .
2. Tap Settings > Original Photos.
3. Tap to next to Save Original Photos.

When you have Save Original Photos turned on, every photo you post on Instagram will also be saved to your phone's library.

Note: People using Instagram on Android may see a delay in photos appearing in their phone’s Instagram photo album.

To change the language you use in the Instagram app, you can adjust your language settings:

1. Go to your profile and tap .
2. Tap Settings.
3. Tap Language.
4. Choose the language you'd like to use.

As of version 8.4, Instagram supports the following languages:

• Afrikaans/Afrikaans
• Arabic/العربية (Android only)
• Bulgarian/Български (Android only)
• Canadian French/Français (Canada) (Android only)
• Chinese/中文(繁體／简体)
• Croatian/Hrvatski
• Czech/Český
• Danish/Dansk
• Dutch/Nederlands
• Farsi/فارسی (Android only)
• Finnish/Suomi
• French/Français
• German/Deutsch
• Greek/Ελληνικά
• Hebrew/עברית (Android only)
• Hungarian/Magyar (Android only)
• Indonesian/Bahasa Indonesia
• Italian/Italiano
• Japanese/日本語
• Korean/한국어
• Malay/Bahasa Melayu
• Norwegian/Norsk
• Polish/Polski
• Portuguese/Português
• Romanian/Română
• Russian/Русский
• Serbian/Српски (Android only)
• Slovak/Slovenčina
• Spanish/Español
• Swedish/Svenska
• Tagalog/Filipino
• Thai/ภาษาไทย
• Traditional Chinese - Hong Kong/中文(香港)
• Turkish/Türkçe
• Ukrainian/Українська
• Vietnamese/Tiếng Việt

To adjust your device's Android settings for Instagram:

1. Open your phone's settings
2. Tap Apps
3. Scroll down and tap Instagram

You'll see the option to uninstall the app and remove Instagram from your phone. You can also clear your cache and data (reset all of the memory on your phone), adjust notifications, and change the default setting for the app.

To turn location services on or off:

1. Leave the Instagram app and go to your iPhone's Settings
2. Tap Privacy > Location Services
3. Scroll down and tap Instagram
4. Select Never or While Using the App to choose location access

Instagram's default setting for location is off, but you can turn location on whenever you post a photo. You'll choose whether or not to allow Instagram access to your location.