Instagram Help Center

To get to your account settings, go to your profile and tap (iOS) or (Android) in the top-right corner. From there, you can:

• 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 on iOS devices:

1. Go to your profile
2. Tap > Push Notification Settings
3. Adjust your settings

To receive notifications about specific accounts that you follow, go to the profile or that account and tap > 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 (iPhone) or (Android) in the top right
2. Scroll to the bottom and tap Add Account
3. 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

Note 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.
3. Tap in the upper left.
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
2. In the top right, tap
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.

If you've chosen to save your Instagram photos to your phone, the high-resolution versions of your photos are automatically saved to your phone after you share the photo on Instagram.

Photos are saved to your phone in the highest resolution size possible. The maximum resolution is 2048x2048 on iOS and varies on Android.

Android

Image resolution capabilities are different for each phone.

Apple iOS

Photo resolution for photos taken within the Instagram app (not from your phone's library):

• 2048x2048 on the iPhone 4s and later
• 1936x1936 on the iPhone 4
• 1536x1536 on the iPhone 3GS

Keep in mind that photos from your phone's library (not taken within the Instagram app) may save at a lower resolution.

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

1. Go to your profile and tap on iOS
2. Scroll down and tap Language (below Settings)
3. Choose the language you'd like to use

As of version 8.4, Instagram supports the following languages:

• Afrikaans/Afrikaans
• 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
• Finnish/Suomi
• French/Français
• German/Deutsch
• Greek/Ελληνικά
• 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 settings for Instagram on Android, including uninstalling the app and clearing your cache and data:

1. Leave the Instagram app
2. Open the Settings on your phone
3. Tap Applications > Manage Applications > Instagram

You'll see options to uninstall (remove Instagram from your phone), clear your cache and clear your data (reset all of the memory on your phone).

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.