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Who can download your Instagram reels

Who can download your reels depends on your account’s privacy settings:

For public accounts: Anyone on Instagram can download your reels and share your reels, unless you change your reels download settings. New reels you share after downloading became available will be able to be downloaded. For Instagram users under 18 with public accounts, the default setting for downloading reels will be off, but can be turned on at any time.
For private accounts: No one on Instagram can download your reels, unless you change your account's privacy setting to public.

You can manage who can download your reels:

When you share a reel

Start by recording and editing your reel, then tap Next in the bottom right.
Tap More options at the bottom.
Scroll down and tap Advanced Settings.
Scroll down to Allow people to download your reels and tap or to turn the setting on or off.
Select whether you want to turn on or off downloading for all reels or only for the reel you're uploading.
Tap in the top left to go back, then tap Share at the bottom.

In your account privacy settings

For an individual reel you’ve already shared

Things to note

For public accounts, only new reels you create will be able to be downloaded unless you change your reels download settings.
Downloaded reels will include an Instagram watermark, your username and audio attribution.
Copies of reels that have been downloaded onto a device won’t be affected if you change your reels download settings.
As part of downloading reels, original audio is eligible to be included in a downloaded reel if the original reel that contained that original audio is downloadable.
Downloaded reels aren’t allowed to be used for commercial purposes. Note that Instagram can’t control what people do with reels after they download them.

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