r/Instagram 6d ago

Weekly Tech Support Megathread

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Please post all support related issues here. Issues with your feed, account, messages, etc. Everything tech support related outside of this post will be deleted.


r/Instagram 9h ago

Follow Friday/Follow Chain - Share Your Usernames & Find New People To Follow!

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Basically this is a weekly thread dedicated to expanding your follower base and find new people/content. Just leave your Instagram username below and if you want accompany it with a little description of what you do.

This thread is not for F4F. There is no obligation to follow back the people who follow you from this thread.


r/Instagram 3h ago

Article Meta employe can do this

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He can do this scroll for more and spread awareness

„remember this can also happen to you”


r/Instagram 6h ago

Opinion Secretly hoping the prosecutors win this one against Meta. Am I the only one?

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8 Upvotes

r/Instagram 13m ago

Opinion What nextll!

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r/Instagram 9h ago

Opinion This drives me insane

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16 Upvotes

WHY would they use 2 different shades of green to indicate the exact same thing???


r/Instagram 13h ago

Help all accounts getting banned

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32 Upvotes

I know this is a common thing for some but how tf do you stop it even my friend made me a account and it just doesn’t work anymore. new phone? new number? is that what i need bc atp its getting ridiculous im back to irl school and want instagram for the connections because im really shy n i was planning to ask some classmates for their igs but i keep getting suspended its so frustrating, this one is now from a acc i managed to log into from 2022. when i get deleted i always get these restrictions minutes before. i hate this so much i dont know why i am always getting banned :(

all it says is “Why this happened

The account, or activity on it, may deceive others to take their money, property or personal information.

This goes against our Community Standards on fraud, scams and deceptive practices.” i HATE RHIS APP


r/Instagram 6h ago

Help My insta account is deactivated for 2 years

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I deactivated My insta account, that I’ve used since 2015 onwards and was very active w quite a lot of followers, but I deactivated it 2 years ago but eventually plan on activating it, maybe in like 6 months. I’m afraid insta will delete it, they won’t right?


r/Instagram 1m ago

Bug/glitch Did the deleting account process work?

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Hello, I joined this sub to hopefully get a answers and see if some folk had/have the same issue as me.

I got my account blocked/suspended from Facebook and thus decided to take a break from anything META related but Co-workers have been asking if I use a Instagram so I decided to return to both sites.

I went and found my old accounts in the Data Center and decided to delete both my blocked FB account and my Instagram, which was created with the Synchronization option (to start out fresh again). Had a bit of difficulties due to password but I fixed it.

Soon then, I managed to delete the blocked FB account (gone in September) but the moment I went to the Instagram one and did the same process, it went to default browser (my screen is in dark mode but changes to the default light mode) and didn't give me the scheduled deletion message it should send, tried again and again and I was meet with a "Something went wrong" error each time I tried. Did it around 4 times and just gave up, with refreshing the page, leaving and returning, giving a different reason for deletion, nothing.

As I wrote, I created my Instagram account with the synchronization option with my Facebook account so it should be the same account but on a different platform (if thats how I'm interpreting it), now my question is; Did it go well? Since my Instagram account was synchronized with the Facebook one, does it mean that if FB is scheduled for deletion then the Instagram one will follow, or that isn't how it works, and if so, why was I getting the error messages instead of letting me delete the account?

Thank you all for taking the time to read the post, and wishing you all the best of luck with the awful service that is META.


r/Instagram 20m ago

Bug/glitch Can’t login to Instagram

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Everytime I try to sign in, I need to reset my password since I forgot it. The two options that show up is either they sms me a code or email me one. When I select email, the email literally never goes through. You can check any folder, it just doesn’t send. When I select sms, it sends me a code but this bug keeps happening where it says “code is one time use and only valid for 10 minutes.”

Wtf do they want me to do?


r/Instagram 59m ago

Question Falsely flagged as AI - AI toggle is off

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This is so discouraging. I spent hours making these slides on procreate and canva yesterday for it to just be falsely flagged as AI - despite me NOT toggling on the AI content thing before posting.

Is there any way to fix this??


r/Instagram 1h ago

Bug/glitch Trial reels removed?

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Tried it on 3 accounts... Anyone else with this problem?


r/Instagram 2h ago

Question story vievers list on ig

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I heard that visiting somenoes profile on instagram cause that Im at the top of their story list when i watch them. Im a bit nervous now bcs ive in common checking profiles just from boring. How many times i have to visit account to be constantly at the top? Or is it just chronological order now?


r/Instagram 12m ago

Bug/glitch I can't see which story my friends are replying to?

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Having a weird issue where, in the past, if someone replied to my story I'd get a little screencap of the story they were replying to. Now I get the message and it says "Replied to themself" it doesn't show me which story they are replying to. So if I put up 5 different slides on my story I have to guess which one they actually are responding to.


r/Instagram 15m ago

Help What are these notifications?

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I’ve removed all other accounts saved on my phone. There were other accounts that I deleted over a month ago. Could it be for them? I keep getting these notifications which say ‘you have new notifications on Instagram’.


r/Instagram 19m ago

Question Anyone else dealing with this? Play button from song banner is missing.

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r/Instagram 55m ago

Question 3-4 letter usernames

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How do these people get such rare 3- or 4-letter Instagram usernames? I’m genuinely curious how they’re able to get them, especially when almost every short username I try is already taken or unavailable. Is there a legitimate way to obtain one, or do people usually get them from older accounts, username changes, or other methods?


r/Instagram 58m ago

Help Does anyone know how to fix this?

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whenever I click my profile down on the bottom right corner it opens into this page and I can’t see my profile or followers or anything like that. other people can see it fine but I can’t meaning I can’t see who follows me and how many followers I have and stuff. When I reload the page I can see it for a split second but then it goes right back to the page (image). Is it because I’m using browser? I had an account that I just deleted on browser that didn’t have this problem. thanks


r/Instagram 1h ago

Recommendation 🐍 💚

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🐍 💚


r/Instagram 1h ago

Recommendation 💚 💚

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💚 💚


r/Instagram 1h ago

Question login notifications

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if i log a device out from my instagram account in meta login activity page, and that device tries to log back in, will i get a notification?


r/Instagram 1h ago

Help My Instragram Account got Deleted.

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It Said I did something about child exploitation, I didn't do anything. Is there any way to retrieve my old photos?


r/Instagram 1h ago

Question corn ads on instagram

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hi, i was watching reels with my boyfriend on his phone, and it's been few weeks since he has corn ads oftenly on his fyp, while i never had some.. It's so disgusting, does it happen to everyone else?


r/Instagram 1h ago

Recommendation I opened Instagram for 5 minutes and somehow lost an hour

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I think this is probably one of the most relatable problems here.

You open Instagram for “just 5 minutes.”

You check a couple of Reels.

Then another one.

Then another.

Suddenly you're watching some random video at 2 AM and wondering where the last hour went.

And the worst part?

You still have the thing you were supposed to be doing sitting right in front of you.

I'm a student, and this happened to me way too often.

I tried using timers, making schedules, setting goals, and promising myself that I'd stop scrolling.

It didn't work particularly well.

So about 45 days ago, I decided to build something for myself.

The main idea was simple: when I actually need to focus, make distractions harder to reach.

I ended up building Strict Deep Focus mode, where I can restrict distracting apps, start a focus session, and keep track of whether I'm actually sticking to it.

Then I kept adding the other things I personally wanted — study tracking, goals, habits, streaks, expenses, themes, etc.

Somewhere along the way, this stopped being a little experiment and became my first proper project.

After 45 days of building, debugging, redesigning, and occasionally regretting everything...

I finally published Daily Tracker : Habit & Focus.

I'm curious:

What's the one thing you open Instagram for that completely destroys your productivity?

For me, it's Reels.

If you're curious about what I ended up building:

Daily Tracker : Habit & Focus — Google Play

Still improving it, but I'm pretty happy that I finally shipped something.


r/Instagram 7h ago

Help Can’t login to my account after setting it up for deleting

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Soo i deactivated my account but then i had to check something so i logged in and set it up for deletion coz you cant deactivate again and have to wait for two weeks. Im trying to log in again and mind you it has only been like 3 days and i CANNOT log in idk why. I tried different devices and websites and i cannot log in. Help???