Recently, some news agencies and Instagram pages has published that social media sites like Instagram will be banned in upcoming days from India. The reason torched behind it is related to updating in privacy policy of these sites. I hear can't justify any immediate original source of such news and controversies, but I have some interesting thing which can be helpful to you as a user of these social media sites.

In recent days we have seen many a times a small hiccup in servers of these large cross globe sites. Last time when it happened it lasted for a large period of time that the apps and sites of these social media company's went irresponsive. 

Memories bring back memories!!

We have been so addicted to Facebook, Instagram and other such platforms that we everyday post thousand of millions of videos, snaps, thoughts and also exchange our feels and ideas with other user. Now these platform have became a timeline place to keep our memories, as these sites make us remind of memories often. 

What happens if in any situation your memories gets vanished?

Its like a horrible nightmare that such scenario happens in someone's life. But I can be possible and in that situation we will be left with nothing.


Here is solution for both the above cases !!

We can download all our user data including our posts, feeds, images, videos, stories, chats, messages, likes, comments and followers all in one go to our local file system.

Its free and a simple 5 steps process to retrieve all your data.

No any third party app or plugin is required. 


Follow these steps to download your all data from day one of your account creation:

1. Open Instagram app and navigate to settings panel from profile section.

2. Select Security option and navigate to Download Data.

3. Enter your Email where you want to get the downloading link of your data.

4. Enter your Instagram account password and procced. 

5. No need of any 5th step, you will be receiving a download link in your provide mail which will be valid on of 4 days from the time mail received. 

Here are the example screenshot of all the steps to procced.

Step 1 - Open Instagram App - tarasublog
Open Instagram App
    
Step 2 - Navigate to Right side Panel of Profile Section - tarasublog
Navigate to Right side Panel of Profile Section

Step 3 - Open Settings Menu from Bottom - tarasublog
Open Settings Menu from Bottom

Step 4 - Select Security Menu in Settings Sections - tarasublog
Select Security Menu in Settings Sections

Step 5 - Click on Download Data in Security Menu - tarasublog
Click on Download Data in Security Menu

Step 6 - Enter your mail id where you want to receive the data - tarasublog
Enter your mail id where you want to receive the data

Step 7 - Enter Account login Password for authentication - tarasublog
Enter Account login Password for authentication


Step 8 - Hurry !! Download Request Sent to Instagram - tarasublog
Hurry !! Download Request Sent to Instagram


Note: It takes time to compress and send data to mail so Instagram takes max around 48 hours to get you the mail. Also don't forget to check your mail's spam folder if not found any such mail in due time.


Click on Download data and the data will be downloaded in zip compressed file. Extract the zip to a folder in your Pc/Laptop and click index.html page to vie your Instagram profile offline on your system.


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