Whether you're looking for a way to save a copy of the photo you just edited in Instagram before posting it, want to bookmark another user's photo to come back to later or download a photo to your computer, figuring out exactly how to do it can be a bit tricky.
Instagram has some helpful features that make downloading your own photos and bookmarking other users' photos easy, but it prevents you from being able to ultimately download just any user's photos the way you might by saving an image from a regular web page. There are some workarounds, which we'll get to later, but let's start with the most basic Instagram photo saving method for the photos you post on your own account.
Save Your Own Instagram Photos to Your Mobile Device
If you upload an existing photo to Instagram without using any of the in-app filter or editing features to make changes, you obviously already have a copy of it on your device. But for those who snap photos directly through the app or upload existing ones with Instagram filters and editing effects applied to them, saving a copy of the finished product that gets posted can be easily and automatically done by turning on one simple setting.
Here's what to do:
As long as this setting is turned on, all of your posts will be copied automatically as you post them into a new photo album or folder labeled 'Instagram' in your mobile device's photo album app. This goes for all posts including those that you snap through the Instagram app, those that you upload from your device with no changes made to them and those that you upload from your device with filter effects and editing effects applied to them.
Save Other Users' Photos (And Videos) to Revisit Within the App
Instagram now has a saving feature built directly into the app. While it merely allows you to bookmark the photo or video post tab and not actually download anything to your device, it's still better than nothing. Until recently, the only way you could really bookmark a photo or video from another user within the Instagram app was by liking it and then accessing your previously liked posts from the settings tab.
The two big downsides to Instagram's save feature are:
On the other hand, if you want to follow the comments on a popular post, you can save the post and return to it later to read new comments, which is at least one very helpful way to use it.
How To Use Instagram's New Save Tab
The new Save tab appears as a little bookmark icon on every user's profile directly above the photo feed in the horizontal menu. You can't see the save tab on other users' profiles, but you can see it on your own profile while signed in. This is to ensure that only you can see what you've saved.
To save any post you find on Instagram, look for the bookmark icon in the bottom right corner and tap it. It will be automatically added to your save tab and no notification will be sent to the user who posted it.
Save Other Users' Instagram Photos in a Few Other Ways
If you've every tried to right click and Save As on an Instagram photo on your computer, or tried to do the equivalent on a mobile device by tapping and holding down on a photo while viewing it in a mobile web browser, you probably wondered why nothing pops up.
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Instagram may be fine with you saving copies of your own photos to your device or bookmarking them in the app because you own them, but it does not claim ownership of any content posted to the app, so it's up to you to get permission from other users if you want to use their content. This explains why it's so impossible to easily download just any photo.
As mentioned in the beginning, however, there are some tricks to get around it. Just be aware that even though users do it all the time, it's against Instagram's terms if the owner doesn't know about it and hasn't given permission for it to be used by anyone else.
How To Save My Instagram Profile PictureTake a Screenshot
Perhaps the easiest unofficial way to quickly save a a copy of someone's else's Instagram photo is to take a screenshot of it and then use a photo editing tool to crop it. This article show you how to take a screenshot on your iOS device or on your Android device.
View the Page Source to Locate the Image File
If you have access to a computer, you can save an Instagram photo by identifying the image file in the page source.
Try Third-Party Apps (If You're Desperate)
If you do some searching around, you may be able to find a third-party app that claims to allow you to save or download Instagram photos. However, there's no guarantee that it will work just how you might expect it to given that Instagram reviews all requests for API access and rejects anything that permits users to interact too heavily with the app, or goes against their terms.
In other words, you might have a seriously frustrating time trying to find any type of third-party app that actually allows you to seamlessly download posts, and anything you actually do decide to download could be kind of shady deal for your privacy and/or security. You're likely much better off by going with any of the other options presented above.
Did you know that the pictures uploaded on Instagram profile are not shown in the original size? Yes, the pixels of the photos are reduced! That said, there’s a way to view full-size Instagram photos which we have outlined in this article. Apart from that, if you are looking to view someone’s Instagram full-size profile picture then we got you covered as well. You can achieve that online from your PC, Mac, Android, iOS browser or using apps.
The images you see in your news feed or on your or someone else’s profile are resized. So, here we are with a method that will help you to view anyone’s full-size Instagram photos which are otherwise scaled down.
You can skip to methods later in the article if you are only interested in viewing profile picture.
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View Full Size Instagram Post Photos
Follow the steps mentioned below to view the uploaded photos in original size on Instagram.
1. Visit the Instagram website from any browser. Log in using your credentials if not done already.
2. Now, go the profile of the user whose picture you want to see in full size. Click on the desired photo.
Note: You won’t be able to click on a photo from the news feed. So, make sure you are on the profile page.
3. After clicking on the photo, you need to append media/?size=l in the URL.
For instance, if the original URL is –
“https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsa4CNwghx0/”
then it will become –
“https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsa4CNwghx0/media/?size=l”
Notice the bold part in the changed URL.
4. After modifying the URL hit Enter.
Woah! You will be redirected to the full-size version of the image. Apart from this, you can also view the medium size and thumbnail version of the photo as well.
In order to view medium or thumbnail version use media/?size=m and media/?size=t respectively at the end of the URL. Here m stands for Medium and t stands for the thumbnail of course.
If you wish you can also save the picture by right clicking and selecting Save Image As…
This was all about viewing anyone’s full-size photos on Instagram. As the above method will only allow you to see photos uploaded as posts in original size so now, let’s get to profile pictures.
See Instagram Profile Picture In Full Size
You cannot view someone’s profile picture in full size on Instagram. You can only see the cropped circular version. However, this is going to change for you after you go through the methods below. Not only view but you can also download the large-sized profile picture if desired.
Here are different methods depending on the device you wish to use.
PC/Mac Or Smartphone Browser
If you don’t want to install an additional app on your phone or wish to use a computer then go for this method.
1. Open the Instagram website on your device web browser. We will be using the Chrome browser for this guide.
There is no requirement to log into Instagram in order to view anyone’s profile picture. But you can if you want to. Moreover, if you already know the username of the person then you can skip the 2nd step and proceed with the 3rd one.
2. Navigate to the desired Instagram profile either by using their post on your news feed or by searching their name. From their profile, get/copy their username.
3. Once you have the username of the desired Instagram user go to the Instagram Profile Picture Downloader on Thumbtube.com.
4. On the tool’s website, type or paste the username of the person whose profile photo you wish to view/save that you got above in step 2 in the ‘Enter Instagram Username‘ text box and click Submit.
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5. The tool will fetch the profile picture in high resolution from the username and show it to you in a couple of seconds. After that, you will have options to View and Download the Instagram profile picture in Full size.
Similarly, you can enter usernames of other desired profiles to view their original large size profile picture. The tool works perfectly for all the accounts – private included, whether you follow them or not.
Note: If you don’t get the profile picture then it was originally uploaded in low resolution(small size). In other terms, it simply means that the user has not uploaded a larger size image.
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Android
1. Get the Instagram username of the desired person and download Instant DP (Full HD) available on Google Play Store.
2. On opening the app you will see an input box to enter the Instagram username. Enter the username and tap on the search icon.
3. It will take a few seconds to fetch the users matching that username. Wait for it and select the desired person when it shows the related users.
4. To view the profile picture in full-size, tap on the profile picture thumbnail. In order to save it, you can use the download icon at the bottom right. Doing this will download the profile picture in the gallery inside its own album.
This app also shows you your search history which you can delete if you wish.
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iPhone/iPad
The procedure is the same as the Android app mentioned above and does not require any login.
iPhone/iPad users can download Qeek for Instagram app to view the full-size profile picture. After the app is installed open it and type the username of the desired Instagram user whose profile picture you want to see and download. A drop-down list will appear, select the desired person.
After that, simply tap on the fetched profile photo or tap on Fullscreen.
This will show you the profile picture in high resolution. Thereafter you can even zoom the profile picture by up to 800%. The app doesn’t have any inbuilt download option but you can always open the profile picture in full size and take the screenshot.
It is also possible to visit the profile of Instagram user right from inside the app.
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Wrap Up
These were several ways to view Instagram full-size photos – the size in which they were actually uploaded to Instagram. Be it normal posts or profile picture you can use them to satisfy your needs. On top of that, you have the luxury to do so on any device – Android, iPhone PC or Mac.
Do share it with your friends and help them to view original size photos too. If you face any issues then feel free to drop a line in the comments below.
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