How to Upload to Instagram from Your Computer?

Yes, it’s true! You can upload to Instagram from your computer, and it’s super easy.

As we know, Instagram is a mobile app for sharing moments through photos or videos. Unfortunately, you can’t install it on a computer. It’s used by millions of people and is increasingly one of the most popular ways to share photos and make yourself known to the world. It’s mainly used by young people, but many adults have also jumped on the Insta bandwagon.

It’s not as convenient as on your phone because you can add multiple accounts, and whenever you want to switch accounts (on mobile), you just tap the little arrow at the top, and it automatically shows the accounts you’ve added so you can choose which one to manage.

Buuuut it’s always handy for those who do everything from their computer. How many times have you wanted to post on Insta and had to transfer the image from your computer to your phone to post it?

Below, we’ve left some tips on how to post on Instagram from your computer.

To start, open your browser, for example Chrome (that’s where we tested it), and go to the Instagram website (www.instagram.com). Log in to your account, and you’ll see something like the image below:

Now follow the next steps:

6 steps to upload to Instagram from your computer

Step 1 – Inspect the web page

Right-click on the page background and select “Inspect”.

Step 2 – Select the right platform

A bunch of characters appear that look like gibberish to you, right? Ignore them, because that’s not important for now! Don’t worry!

What really matters is at the top where it says “iPhone X” (the platform you’re going to change to the mobile version). Click on it, and several models will appear. You can select any of them except the last two options, which are the iPad. Unfortunately, you can’t post from these two platforms on the computer.

Note: If you click on the “Edit” option, you’ll find other platforms you can add and try out too.

Step 3 – Refresh the page and select the button

After selecting the platform, refresh the page and you will see something like the image below.
Now that you have the “Home”, “Search”, “Upload”, “Notifications” and “Account” buttons, you are now inside the mobile version on your computer!

Select the middle button with the [+] icon to start posting.

Step 4 – Upload to Instagram via Computer

A window opened to search for an image on your computer, right?

Choose the image you want to post and note that only .JPG format is allowed; other formats like .PNG will not work.

Step 5 – Select Filter Options

On your phone, you have several photo editing options before posting, such as filters, contrast, etc. On the computer, you have some filter options, but when it comes to editing, you can only rotate the image.

Is the image ready? Then click “Next” to add a caption, choose a location, and tag people. In this case, on your phone you could share to other social networks, but on the computer it is not possible.

All set? Then just click “Share”

Step 6 – Upload Complete on Instagram

Et Voilà! The image is now public and visible to your friends.

In addition to posting images, you can also add stories (and view your friends' stories) by clicking the camera symbol at the top left corner (as shown in the image below).

Search with #hashtags, find friends, view your page activity, edit your profile, change settings, and much more! Basically, 90% of the features work on the computer just like on mobile.

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