How To Download Instagram Videos To Iphone Camera Roll

Over a billion people love to use Instagram. We frequently come across fantastic images and videos that we want to save locally to the Photos app. Sadly, there is no inbuilt solution in the Instagram app itself. But don't worry, we have got you covered with a detailed guide on how to download Instagram videos and photos to your iPhone camera roll.

Download Instagram Videos and Photos to iPhone Camera Roll Using Shortcuts
How to Download Instagram Videos and Photos on iPhone
Take Screenshot or Screen Recording
Use a Repost App
How to Download Instagram Photos and Videos on Computer

Download Instagram Videos and Photos to iPhone Camera Roll Using Shortcuts

Before You Begin: Open the Settings app on your iPhone → Shortcuts → and enable Allow Untrusted Shortcuts.

Get Instagram Media shortcut by clicking on this link. Next, scroll down and tap on Add Untrusted Shortcut.
Open the Instagram app on your iPhone and go to the post you wish to download.
Tap the three dots icon in the upper left of a photo or video. Next, choose Copy Link.
Open the Shortcuts app → My Shortcuts → tap on the Instagram Media shortcut.
Whenever asked, tap OK to give access permissions to this shortcut. After that, the Instagram picture or video will be saved to the iPhone Photos app.

Helpful Tip: You can add this shortcut to your iPhone Home Screen. This will eliminate the need to open the Shortcut app each time (step 4 above). You can copy the post link and tap on Instagram Media shortcut directly from the Home Screen.

How to Download Instagram Videos and Photo on iPhone

Open Safari on your iPhone running iOS 13 or iOS 14 and visit Ingramer.com.
Tap on the hamburger icon from the upper-right. Next, tap on Instagram Downloader.
You will see various options to download photos, videos, IGTV, etc. Tap on the one you need.
Open the Instagram app and visit the image or video post. Tap on the three dots icon from the upper-right. Next, tap on Copy Link.
Paste the link on this website and tap SEARCH. If you want to download IGTV, enter the account username.
Tap on Download. It will open in a new tab. Tap on Download again.
Tap on the arrow icon and select the downloaded file.
Tap on the share icon and choose Save Image or Save Video from the Share Sheet. The Instagram post is successfully saved to the Camera Roll.

Notes:

In the steps above, I used Ingramer.com. You are free to use other similar websites like DownloadGram.com. The steps are almost identical.
Next, visit any site mentioned above in the browser section of this app. If needed, you can take help from our article, where we showed how to download Twitter videos on iPhone using this app.

Take Screenshot or Screen Recording

To save an Instagram photo, you can take a screenshot and then crop the unwanted parts. For Instagram video posts, you can see how to record your entire iPhone screen.

Use a Repost App

Repost apps are primarily used to post somebody else's Instagram post to your profile. However, these apps locally save the file to the iPhone Camera Roll before you hit the final repost button.

So, this little hack can also be used to download Instagram photos. Just know that most of these apps require a premium purchase to remove the username from the image. However, Reposter for Instagram seems to be an exception.

Optionally: Repost Quick for Instagram is an old app that has not been updated in 4 years. But it works on iOS 13 and iOS 14. In a single tap, it lets you download five images or videos for free. After that, you need to pay.

How to Download Instagram Photos and Videos on Computer

You can use all the sites mentioned above on your Mac or Windows PC to download media from Instagram. If you want to make things easy, check out 4K Stogram. It lets you download your as well as anybody's entire Instagram profile in just a few steps – even if the account is private! The app works exceptionally well.

Signing off…

These are some of the ways to download Instagram photos and videos to your iPhone or iPad, and computer.

Additionally, if you like a post and wish to save it for later, tap on the ribbon icon in the bottom right of any Instagram picture or video. I use it to save Instagram ads I like and may want to return to them in the future. To see all your saved posts, tap on your profile icon → hamburger icon from the top-right → Saved.

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