Instagram App Reviews

Account Making. Now I will be completely honest with everyone who reads this review Whoever is new coming to instagram be prepared for the difficult understanding of the app. I am a long time user of this platform and I believe there no problem with instagram besides one thing, it’s their making account process. I have been trying to make an back up account for myself for the last 2 hours and I have been getting to the same spot over and over. When I was making the account at first the app wasn’t letting me make an account. So I decide to use their website and the website let me make the account and log into the account as well but the app it wouldn’t let me make not log in. I have tried many different methods like changing the password, using the digital code(which is supposed to be 6 number digit but I got an email sent with 8 digits.) On top of that the link they sent didn’t work as well. The only time I did log onto the account was when I had to go into the app and log on through the website on the app. When that happened I still couldn’t get on the account and then I thought maybe the link would work since I already have the account connect to the meta thing. Then when I do that I get logged out of both of the account. This is totally unacceptable and unprofessional service from the developer behalf because making account is the main key of the whole instagram and it don’t make sense why it’s so bugged.

give me the note and add music to notes update please. I don't wanna be mean but I have had an issue with your recent update, which allows users to put a 30 second music clip on their notes with that i a haven’t even gotten the update to add notes which is such and inconvenience. I have not received this update, although all of my friends have. I have tried to be patient, & I have also tried fixing it. I restarted my phone, I updated my phone, I deleted the app, I logged out of my account, I tried updating the app multiple times, & nothing. No music option on my notes. I don't understand why I am being excluded. I am hurt, & overall shocked that Instagram could exclude someone like this. I would appreciate if you would give me this update. I don't find it nice to be excluding anyone from your updates, & I don't know why you chose me to exclude. But it is unfair, and I would like to receive this update as soon as possible. I think I deserve this. I have since gotten over it, but now I cannot let you exclude me any longer. Please give me this update, I do not deserve this. It's truly disgusting & rude of you to just leave me out. I really want this update, I am so mad you chose to leave me out of this update, out of all of the updates you have made. I love music, & I really would like to put it on my notes. I don't know why you're targeting me like this, but it needs to stop. Please provide me with this update, would love to put music on my notes.

Newest owners of the application have messed it up!. Though Instagram is one of the simplest social media platforms you could have the support is complete trash. I spent the last two weeks trying to recover my account that was registered as compromised for unfollowing people. A little back story I have had this account for over 7+ years and I hadn’t really done much with it and in a failed effort to make the account more recent I encountered several inappropriate post of nudity and etc. I spent many many many hours reporting post that were inappropriate for the app that is 13+ and I decided to clean out the people I was following bc I was sick of the disturbing things I seen on there. I found that my account followed 100’s of people I didn’t know and of course I change my password frequently to keep from scam so I knew that wasn’t the problem. While unfollowing said accounts and many others I got a page saying. “Account compromised.” That I some how purchased followers against the guidelines I was sitting at a total of like 100 followers or so, plus the whole idea of buying followers is lost on me. I have spent two weeks trying to get this resolved. Instagram has little to no support with simple Q & A forms for assistance that just DO NOT WORK! It has become completely ridiculous and I’m not the only person I know who has had this issue. Regardless. The app has gone down hill and hopefully will get it’s crap together in the near future.

Better service. I’ve been using the app instagram for as long as I can remember. I can say that it is a part of me in a good way. I haven’t always followed the rules but for the most part being on the app was a great experience. As someone with a growing platform and growing instagram account, I can say that when you are in need of some help there’s not really anyone to call on. The email and number are from my experience never used, which makes both ways to contact them pointless. But another thing is is the biometric identification bot, is an obstacle to pass. I recently have been trying to access my account and it’s been a nightmare. So likewise I’ve been searching and watching online videos and reading sources on how to pass the “obstacle”. I feel like human review should be put to use more simply because it’s hard for an ai to understand something less perplexed. I think the ai wants you to be perfect which is going to be hard for a lot of people. Currently writing this review I have not gotten fully into my account due to the 2fa which is the start of the problem, but hopefully I can get back into my account this week. In conclusion, the app is great but there are some things that needs to be worked on and changed. For example the identification verification bot and a little more but that’s all. A tip before I finish is to get your 8 digit codes because those will be a life saver (while you have access to your account).

What happened to the app I loved?. Im in the same boat as many others here. I liked Instagram as it was different from other platforms. It’s essentially become a place to reshare tiktok videos and there’s no longer even a button on the toolbar to make a post. There is NO customer service. My app has been glitched for SEVERAL updates and won’t allow me to share a post (even my own) to my stories. I report and hear nothing. I’ve removed the app from my phone and re download and same issue. The issue even stayed with me when I purchased a new phone! I get that there’s a huge user base, but seriously they can’t dedicate ANY energy to customer service for escalated issues?!? I’m a contractor and can no longer share the posts of my clients and partners - during a pandemic it looks even more to my clients that I’m not involved bc I can’t promote their content without taking a screenshot and creating my own post- it’s hurting my working relationships. It’s gotten so bad that I barely use the app anymore. I don’t like Facebook SnapChat or TikTok and it’s clear that Instagram is just becoming like the others so there’s no point. I’m served adds and content I didn’t follow and am constantly missing out on important updates from people I actually care about - the whole point of the app allowing me to specifically target my experience is gone, and Instagram frankly doesn’t care about its users as they are all the product themselves.

This can’t be happening. I still can’t put a note down and this has been ongoing for years ever since I had Instagram in 2018 and it says that I’ve post something that Instagram didn’t like so it said if I did again it will take my account away without letting me know which that is unacceptable…., I think that it should let you know ahead of time before it takes your information out, so now I have to keep on waiting until this supposedly feature comes on my phone, Which its NUTS!!!! This is ridiculous it says that since a lot of my stuff got hacked, and taken off by a person so I had to start all over. It’s just that this person I don’t know might’ve put something on my Insta so now I have this thing on my phone that it won’t come off which I’m hoping and praying. Eventually, it does take it off of my phone I am so worried😰 I like Instagram but it’s nosy Pretty much every social media is nosy So I’ve been cautious of what I’ve been putting on and sometimes I don’t wanna put anything on because I’m afraid that it’s gonna shut down Also, I’ve noticed that a lot of people have been putting inappropriate things they don’t even get taken down or reported And I just noticed that I had to update it so I did that and it still won’t work. I don’t know what else to do. It’s really frustrating when I can’t really put a note.

People behind instagram are racist. INSTAGRAM IS RACIST!! My family had an on going issue with an ex lover of one my family members. She posted images of our family home, images from a porn site indicating it was the family member, threats, she even went as far as to make a fake obituary of the family member using the present date as the date of death. Most importantly she made very disrespectful comment about our two elderly parent (whom had no clue as they are not on instagram). Myself, friends, and family reported the page and instagrams response was to call the police or block the page. Fast forward I have a friend who is of a different race from myself (take a wild guess what race she is) who currently has a similar situation with an ex friend. Although the harassment isn’t remotely close to what we digested as a family, they were very responsive to her reports about the page. They went as far as to contact what she called the instagram police to investigate the issue. They concluded that it is harassment and they will contact the harasser to request she removes her images from the page. This took all of 24 hours, a huge difference in the time line they took to respond to our harassment reporting and an even bigger step in getting her pictures removed. Was our harassment not as important as hers? Who is behind making the decisions at instagram? Obviously if you are not the right race you will be IGNORED & DISMISSED!

Instagram is Trash. I’ve had Instagram since its launch when it was just a photo sharing app, but what it’s morphed into today is un-usable. I have watched a slow decline in the user experience, and with the recent announcement that they are doing away with fact checking and content moderation I am officially done with any Meta product. Mark Zuckerberg is a soulless coward. People should really think twice about continuing to use his products and line his pockets with money he is using to undermine our democracy. Coupled with the app being literal garbage now, it’s no wonder he spent so much on lobbying congress to have Tik Tok banned, because he simply can’t innovate tech on his own…he always steals from others. I’m old enough to remember a time before we had social media and we were just fine as a society. I’d argue we were better off actually without the constant noice that distracts and divides us while Zuck rakes in the profits. With where we are in the world I cannot in good faith support this monster’s companies any longer, and I urge every person concerned for the trajectory of our planet to delete their accounts and do the same. It makes no sense to complain about the issues, and continue to use the platforms that are contributing to the issues we face. I’m done. Meta will never get a minute of my time or data again. Delete your facebook and instagram people. I promise you will survive without them just fine.

Restrictions. Here’s what I think of Meta in general, though I’m pretty sure a human will never read it: Quote from Zuckerberg…free expression, he said, has always been part of his company’s mission—but sometimes people use their voices to put others in danger. Meta shouldn’t be making so many decisions on speech by itself.” So Meta created an Oversight Board, & Zuckerberg gave that board $150 million dollars to continue it’s work through 2025. I don’t think you can say the oversight board is independent if Zuckerberg paid to create it. If you want some entertainment, go read the bio’s for the current board members & tell me if it’s a diverse group of independent voices, as Zuckerberg claims. It’s clear that the board was created, not for the purpose Zuckerberg claims, but to ensure Meta can continue silencing who they want, & can blame the board if their actions are ever called into question. I see posts/videos CONSTANTLY from people inciting hate & violence, but they’re never taken down or have their accounts restricted. No Democrat politician who openly called on the public to intimidate & harass political opponents, & they weren’t silenced. My grandfather, who served the US military for 30 yrs, said that this country would begin losing it’s freedom if one political ideology ever gained control of the flow of information to the people. He was willing to sacrifice his life for this country, & I’m almost glad that he’s not here to watch it happen.

The new reshare feature makes the app unusable.. Insta has always been about sharing. Sharing your own pictures, and sharing friends or mutual’s work too. The newest update makes the latter impossible and tedious. Instead of being able to simply tap the airplane icon next to a post, and then posting it to your story, you have to back out of it, go to your story, set up a new “create” post, and add a reshare sticker. This makes resharing on the fly incredibly annoying. It slows the spread of posts, and is basically discouraging people from sharing others work in the first place. This is detrimental to communities like activists, artists (who you don’t seem to care much about anyways), content creators, and more. You are effective killing the main source communication and collaboration within your app. Whether you think videos are the hit new thing or not, you ARE NOT TIKTOK. Stay in your lane, or you’ll lose every loyal user. If you’re trying to be something completely new, then make a new app, and leave Insta alone! Nobody comes to Instagram expecting TikTok like content, and that will never change no matter how hard you push that type of content. If you actually care about the stability of your user base, and the Insta community as a whole, please return the old resharing. You can keep your Reels, sure, I don’t care, but removing the biggest part of your app in hopes that it will make everyone want to only look at Reels content is a terrible idea.

Instagram Isn’t Improving User Experience. Instagram’s idea of a “good user experience” is not making it a good time. Their great plan to make posts out of chronological order is where it starts, I suppose. It makes no sense that I can only see posts in my feed from people I interact with most—I don’t have time to scroll through my entire feed, but I pretty much only see about 20 of the accounts that I follow, no one outside those because I can’t “interact” with them. How will I interact with these if i cannot even see their posts? Regarding posts—Instagram is supposed to be a photo and video sharing app, and the quality is downright terrible. Photos are grainy, videos never load, the list goes on and on. I’m here to share my art, and seemingly, it gets more and more difficult to reach others of the trade. When I first started in 2015, more people could discover me. Now, no one can and it’s an absolute mess. If Instagram truly wanted to “improve user experience” it would. And it’s not, rather going for select posts the app *thinks* you’ll like. I can like a variety of things, so show them all to me. My experience with Instagram has gone down and it’s no longer enjoyable to use the app because of so many inconsistencies, not to mentions the countless times Instagram’s been down just this past month. Please take a moment to listen to your unhappy users. hard to navigate with the new update.

Ban the prompts!. Dear Instagram and To Whom It May Concern, Can you guys please ban the prompts, this whole prompt thing was a bad idea and people are getting out of hand with the things they have to say, it is not funny to be speaking on normalizing topics that can be very harmful for others who have went through that experience with people who have zero understanding for how it could be for one who is a victim of that type of activity. There are certain issues that have effected people physically and mentally, I’ll admit I should’ve never responded to those comments since it did make me an accomplice on my end but I now I learned that it shouldn’t be my issue to be involved in that sort of drama as I know better learning the sort of outcome that comes from a response, causing a huge issue for those that care about me, so please Instagram, do a favor and ban this feature immediately as this was a mistake on your ends and others can be offended by the sort of stupidity that others say that can lead to an outrage of people who have been offended by the comments that we in the prompts. We all need to grow up and stop leading ourselves into topics that can offend others. Please and thank you.

Fix this please!. I really enjoy using Instagram but I have one issue and that is that when I try to upload more than one photo into one post it crops my photos to the same size as the first one in the post. I want to be able to post all of them into one post and have all of the pictures be the original size. This would be great for photographers like me who go out on photoshoots and want to put up one post with their best photos. It is hard to do that when all of your photos are cropped the exact same way. It should be the same way as Facebook. I am not saying we make Instagram exactly like Facebook because they are two different social medias, but I think it would be nice if we could upload photos on Instagram the same way we can upload them on Facebook. With Facebook you have one post with multiple pictures that are all the original sizes. You can then click on them and look through them individually before exiting and going through the rest of your feed. Instagram should allow us to have the option to upload our photos like this. We should have an option to do this If we have a photography account. I know not everyone would want to upload their photos this way but many would choose to do this.

Just some suggestions. Hi, so I really love Instagram, but it might be nice to have a feature where you can disable your view of the like button (AKA you, as the person posting something, don’t have to see how many people like your post). I struggle with a lot of perfectionism and social anxiety, and so I tend to hold a lot of my personal value in how many likes I get on a post I make. It would just be nice to not have “how many people like this” be the reason I choose or don’t choose to post something, or have it become criteria for my self worth. But, this isn’t to say that people can’t actually “like” my post. They still could, it’s just that I wouldn’t be able to see it. Also, it would be lovely to be able to disable the explore page of Instagram for certain times of the day. I spend hours, and I mean HOURS, on the explore page avoiding and procrastinating my work. I like having the app around on my Home Screen, I just would like to not feel like as soon as I open it I am going to waste the day scrolling. I know the whole point of an app is to have people use it, but I think I would use it in a much healthier way if I had the option to place restrictions for myself within the app.

New Update. The new update is absolutely annoying. I can’t see recent posts without having to click on older posts from people I follow. And if I don’t click on that it just displays ONE new picture from someone I follow. Every time I get on this app all I see is that. Which at this point has gotten on my nerves. Just that one recent picture which is 7 hours old now. Even if I refresh the page I don’t get an update of recent posts with other people I follow. Before the new update it changes constantly and I know some people that I do follow post on a daily basic. Change the format back. I rather scroll on my feed to see post of people I FOLLOW. Not the stupid suggest posts on my feeds. Change it back to how it was. This is incredibly stupid. It’s more stupid having another button to see older posts on my personal page. Stop putting explore page videos/posts of people I do not follow on the personal page. I get on Instagram multiple times a day and I do use the explore page a lot. Keep the personal page separate from the explore page. That is beyond ridiculous. Why are you changing the format? I don’t want to see suggested posts on my personal page. Change it back to where when I scroll on my personal page, it just displays posts from people I follow. Stop including the explore page on the personal page. KEEP THEM SEPARATE. Literally have a personal page button and an explore page button for a reason. Keep it that way.

Please stop making unnecessary changes. I am finding it harder to use Instagram with every update. Changes that are being made are unnecessary and feel unnatural to me. I can’t see posts in chronological order, I have “suggestions” on the feed which I go to see ONLY what the people I’m following have been up to. That’s been slightly annoying, but now in the explore feed when I click on one post with the intention to scroll through all the posts suggested to me from various users... instead I’m met with only one users posts, most of which I’m not interested in and it’s annoying to have to go back and click the next picture to see the next meme or what-have-it, causing me to close the app and open FaceBook or Twitter instead as they aren’t making changes that are majorly affecting the way users browse content. I don’t know who instagram has put in charge of these updates, but every single update gets worse. ALSO not to mention, the app will automatically follow accounts that I have either never encountered or had no interest in following. I have never left a review in the AppStore but Instagram used to be my favorite social media outlet and now I’m much more fond of other things due to some of the updates and I think a lot of people might feel this way about the path instagram is taking.

…rough. I have had Instagram for a few years now I’ve had my Instagram account since 2019 and that is when I first started getting into social media as far as Instagram goes I don’t really have any technical issues. Most of it is the fact that a lot of the people that come on Instagram are very very judgmental and insensitive and most of these accounts when you do end up reporting them for the content or comments that they share they don’t end up getting banned for it or anything like that and I don’t want to make this a long review, but I have seen multiple reels of young girls having predators in their comments and Instagram doing absolutely nothing about it so something that I would definitely recommend if you are going to let your children or anything like that use Instagram or any social media platform you make sure that their accounts are looked at and monitored Instagram used to be really nice to use, but there are so many rude and ignorant people on Instagram now that you can barely even get on it to have fun. there are a plethora of negative and political things whether it be fat phobia or homophobia things that just kind of makes you never want to look at Instagram. It’s a good app. It’s just the people that are given platforms and when reported they can keep their platform.

Regarding notifications. I never bothered to leave any reviews because I did not really have any issues with the app until now. Please REMOVE the annoying notifications of “people you may know”. I find notifications about people I may know extremely annoying and unnecessary. I don’t care about people I may know. I didn’t mind seeing the suggested people on the app but now I’m getting actual notifications about this and it’s really annoying. It’s always people I don’t know at all and there is no way to turn off these stupid notifications. I hate them, please remove these awful notifications or at least give us the option to turn them off because when I went to check to see if I can turn off this specific notification, there was no option to do so. The only notifications I’m interested in are notifications of likes and comments on my posts and when my friends send me direct messages and friend requests. Any other notifications I’m not interested in, but the other notifications at least have an option to turn them off. But these people you may know notifications are just annoying, useless and I have no option to turn them off. Please give us that option to turn these notifications off as I DO NOT want them! I’ll raise the number of stars once you provide the option to get rid of that annoying notification of people I may know.

Really good app, got a lot of followers and likes after I made my account public. When I first started using Instagram, I didn’t know what I was doing. I am an artist, so when I got this app I posted a few of my works, but I really just wanted to look at some memes and posts from my family. After about 2-ish years I made my account public and started being more active, I got a lot of good comments from people on my posts and started gaining more and more followers. Even at that point, I started to post more each day to try to stay active and I was able to communicate with more people. Though I don’t chat with a lot of people from my DMs, I sometimes talk to people when I’m not doing much. When I got around to 1k followers, I felt like I accomplished something. Seeing people like my account, my posts and my personality made me even happier that people really do care and like for who I am. I highly recommend getting this app, screw Twitter (or X), screw Facebook, screw TikTok and other social media platforms, Instagram is in the top. If you just post stuff that you like, eventually people will like it, share with other users and you will be just as famous like me and SO many other people.

Where to begin. I’m on my third Instagram account which I started two years ago because I began to have so many technical issues so I took a break and then started again with a new account. I couldn’t get any help or was able to complain to anyone because you make that virtually impossible! Now recently your stupid algorithm has been removing comments like my responding to someone writing Thank You and accusing me of trying to gain followers and likes witch is ludicrous because I’m always removing new followers especially when they haven’t even looked or commented on any of my posts. Now sine last week I’m getting only 5 or six notifications then suggestions! Where are all my notifications??? It seems there is always something not working lately and I can report the issues til I’m blue in the face nothing changes. The main feed is also screwed up! Now I’m on a fixed income which goes nowhere since the pandemic yet you want me to get verified or pay a monthly fee? Why would anybody do that under these circumstances? Besides Mr Zuckerberg has quite enough money already! You shadow ban people’s accounts you screw with still others who depend on this to supplement their income and again who do we go to?I have found it extremely difficult to write this without using any expletives and thrust me I have quite a few I’d love to write but then Apple another company gone off the rails wouldn’t post it.

Death of Organic followers was the Death of Instagram.. Title says it all. Not everyone wants to be a business and pay for followers and promotions. IG was already making enough with ad revenue. But killing the organic feed was about the most blatant sign of greed i’ve seen from a social media platform. We expected it from Facebook, and naturally everyone saw it coming with the merger. Its absurd to think that because you dont pay per post, even with a good follower to post activity ratio, your posts dont take priority among your own followers or area. Instagram took the fun out of discovering people and forces those who pay to play down your throats. The bigger accounts just saturate the market and everyone else gets forgotten. Personal pages should NOT be penalized for not paying to promote posts where as business profiles should. IG, like every Google product, is self imploding and destroying itself by its obsession with catering to ads. Not the creatives who even bring traffic to IG in the first place. Remember what happened to Tumblr? The first IG? Yea its going in that direction. The censorship and bias towards trending profiles alone is going to kill this platform just like Facebook is suffering from. And dont get me started on the spam and scam messages/ comments that plague this app.

Glitch. I’ve had 6 comments removed for supposedly breaking guidelines none of them did. simply opinions that have everything to do with the topic posted. No swears, no treats, etc. comments you would have with any adult in a living room discussion setting. That’s irritating enough especially when you see the vulgarities that are permitted to stay posted. But then every time you delete a comment my account get stuck in this not allowing me to post any comment. I’m promoted to retry or tell us. Both prompts do absolutely nothing and lead nowhere. While my account status says I can use all features. If I don’t write in a complaint it stays this way until I do. It most irritating. At this point I’ve spent more time reporting a problem than I actually spend on instagram. Wondering if anyone else has this same issue? How it can be fixed? If it can be fixed? Because if it can’t I may be done with this particular app. It’s not worth the aggravation. Adding to this do you realize that almost all of your reviews are repeating the same review over and over forever. It’s a complaint that is marked as five stars which makes absolutely no sense and changes your review scale. And now I can see why. You send the review and if you want to write another you can’t your original review comes back up and your prompted to send or cancel. These reviews date back quite a way and say the exact same thing. Is anyone working there?

You’re killing me, here. I like Instagram. I do. It’s a good app for keeping in contact with friends and for being able to share the things I create as an artist. But I swear the app gets worse with every update. The changes to the layout of the home page that make it so it’s basically a second explore page and so you don’t see posts from those you follow in chronological order are frustrating. The change to messages that make it so swiping prompts a reply to someone rather than exiting is confusing and non-intuitive, not to mention outright useless. The changes to the placement of the notification and posting tabs are infuriating. This is an app for sharing, not for shopping. Keep the shopping tab out of the main tab bar and put reels back with explore. Instagram would be much more user friendly if there was an option to toggle certain features (although calling them features instead of “hinderances” might, in some cases, be generous), such as the swipe-to-reply in messages, the suggested posts after the most recent posts in the home section, or whether posts were ordered algorithmically or chronologically. Additionally, allowing users to set up the layout of their tab bar would also make it more user friendly. I’m sure someone out there prefers the easy access to the reels tab, and would want to keep it where it currently is. But most don’t. Thus, allowing users to choose which features show up on the bar would make the app far better.

Is instagram deleting people for doing nothing?. Overall I love the app instagram, you can see funny videos and even gain followers on there, but here is the biggest problem on instagram, THEY ARE DELETING ACCOUNTS THAT DID NOTHING WRONG. Instagram needs to get out of their brain dead state and start checking accounts before deleting them because they are getting reported and accounts are being banned and disabled. This is especially unfair to the fan editors out there. There are hundreds of thousands of people who make edits of their favorite people on apps such as TikTok, Instagram, etc. These fans work hard on their edits, tag the people they edited, try to make their day by showing how much they love them just so instagram can delete the photos and videos because they assume that they are trying to be them??? Clearly if you read the caption you can clearly see that they are just simply showing how much they love that user. They are not trying to be like them they are just trying to support them. If they think people who show love to who they support then why don’t hate pages get banned, reported, or disabled? This isn’t the only people instagram has done this to because a nice dancer who did absolutely nothing wrong got disabled at 300k, the followers she worked hard on getting!!! Instagram needs to step up their game and stop doing all this bad stuff to these people who show their support or I’ll just have to be one of the many people who delete this app.

Bruh. Update: can’t snooze suggested posts. I have the option to and it claims it’s snoozing them but I still get MANY on my feed. I barely see posts from the people I follow. Adding a following feed is such a greedy cash grab and an insult to users especially ones who have been using the app for over a decade now. Keep getting a mass of ads in my feed too which is a slap in the face. Instagram disguises it as there being no more posts to show me from the people I’m following but that’s such a lie! I don’t even see half of the users I follow in my feed! What the heck Instagram?! Hate you zuc Instagram is no longer that fun, community based, and is full on greedy corporate. Depressing because the concept has always been genius but greed and arrogance ruins everything. Try harder to make your base user friendly. So many issues with Instagram and meta as whole. Leaving another review of another issue that didn’t used to be there. Won’t let me snooze suggested post in my feed. Very annoying if I want to see content from creators I don’t follow I will seek it out on my own or use explore page! I don’t know if it’s a bug or a what. Also still not happy my new account was temporarily banned for a FALSE and inaccurate accusation that my account wasn’t real. Why am I, a real person being accused of being a bot account or not who I say I am when there’s actual bot and catfish accounts out there! Crazy!!

Terrible Update. This new update has rendered the app essentially unusable. Ever since it was bought by Facebook, the UI has tanked severely, and isn’t user friendly anymore. The new positions of the buttons do not make any sense, the posting mechanism is hidden along with stories and reels, the DM system is 10x worse (trying to swipe out of a conversation can sometimes make you reply to a specific message which is completely unnecessary and unused), and at this point, I see more advertisements than I do my friends posts. The only reason any of these updates happened was because 1. Instagram wanted to make more of a profit by changing out the “notifications” section with “shopping” (a feature that most people don’t use) in order to bump up traffic revenue and 2. They changed out the “new post” button with “reels” as a way to compete with Tiktok. No one wants to do their shopping on Instagram, and if we wanted to use Tiktok, we would. Everyone who has been posting to reels has just been reuploading their Tiktoks, not making any new content purely for reels. Thr worst part about all of this is that if you have multiple accounts, these updates might not be present on all of them. Some of my accounts have the full update, and some haven’t even begun to change, which is extremely confusing. This review is longer than expected, but that just shows how terrible this apps interface has gotten. Don’t update if you can avoid it.

App never works, dead links that go no where, no app support. As a business owner who uses Instagram to promote my business - I find the app unreliable with tons of glitches and dead links that don’t work, the app is cluttered with options / links that make the user interface look unprofessional and Instagram is slowly making the same mistakes that Facebook made with their Ui design, advertising on Instagram has great results whenever the app works but I constantly have ads rejected for no reason or the app is so glitchy that I can’t login or post ads, I find that Instagram doesn’t know what they want the app to be (reels, stories, igtv, posts… Instagram just needs to make an app that works and quit trying to complicate the user design), app support is non-existent and glitches often keep me from advertising on Instagram for weeks at a time - you would think that Instagram / Facebook/ meta would take ad revenue serious enough to make the app work consistently but this is sadly not what is happening, I don’t understand this whole meta / facebook takeover of the app (facebook has a horrible user interface that is cluttered and scattered between various meta and Facebook links that are confusing to navigate - Instagram is slowly introducing new features in this same manner and is slowly making a simple app complicated for no reason (this is why Tik Tok is having so much success and Facebook / Meta / Instagram is struggling).

Help. I don't wanna be mean but I have had an issue with your recent update, which allows users to put a 30 second music clip on their notes. I have not received this update, although all of my friends have. I have tried to be patient, & I have also tried fixing it. I restarted my phone, l updated my phone, I deleted the app, I logged out of my account, I tried updating the app multiple times, & nothing. No music option on my notes. I don't understand why I am being excluded. I am hurt, & overall shocked that Instagram could exclude someone like this. I would appreciate if you would give me this update. I don't find it nice to be excluding anyone from your updates, & I don't know why you chose me to exclude. But it is unfair, and I would like to receive this update as soon as possible. I think I deserve this, especially after you never let me use the "Add Yours" stickers as well. I have since gotten over it, but now I cannot let you exclude me any longer. Please give me this update, I do not deserve this. It's truly disgusting & rude of you to just leave me out. I really want this update, I am so mad you chose to leave me out of this update, out of all of the updates you have made. I love music, & I really would like to put it on my notes. I don't know why you're targeting me like this, but it needs to stop. Please provide me with this update, I would love to put music on my notes Thank you

I’m disappointed in you.. i don't wanna be mean but I have had an issue with your recent update, which allows users to put a 30 second music clip on their notes. I have not received this update, although all of my friends have. I have tried to be patient, also tried fixing it. I restarted my phone, I updated my phone, I deleted the app, I logged out of my account, I tried updating the app multiple times just nothing. No music option on my notes. I don't understand why I am being excluded. I am hurt, and overall shocked that Instagram could exclude someone like this. I would appreciate if you would give me this update. I don't find it nice to be excluding anyone from your updates, besides I don't know why you chose me to exclude. But it is unfair, and I would like to receive this update as soon as possible. I think I deserve this, especially after you never let me use the "Add Yours" stickers as well. I have since gotten over it, but now I cannot let you exclude me any longer. Please give me this update, I do not deserve this. It's truly disgusting and rude of you to just leave me out. I really want this update, I am so mad you chose to leave me out of this update, out of all of the updates you have made. I love music, I really would like to put it on my notes. I don't know why you're targeting me like this, but it needs to stop. Please provide me with this update, I would love to put music on my notes. Thank you<33

Good app, terrible support system. Instagram is a good application, but when there is a problem there is no way to fix it. For me the tap in feature does not work, it appears as part of the image and is not interactable. I have looked up a lot of things to try and fix it but nothing seems to work. I tried to contact Instagram but the only way to do that is through reports, and I have reports from 6 months ago that are still in review. And when I report a technical problem such as the tap in or add yours feature not working, it does not even show up in my reports. I think that whenever I report it that nothing happens because I think it should appear in my reports log in settings right? My application is fully up to date, I’ve tried clearing the data from the app, I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled and nothing has worked. There are thousands of other people claiming to have this problem but nobody can find an answer or solution to it and Instagram does not provide a way to help with this. The help center only provides information for business things or how to do very basic actions within the app. There is no help for glitches and bugs, there is no way to fix or contact about these bugs, which is quite annoying.

THANK YOU for fixing bug, but there’s still 1 issue. *Updated review* a few days ago i wrote a bad review because there were bug issues and my saved songs on instagram weren’t loading and now they’re all BACK YAYYY i love you forever instagram 🫶🏻🫶🏻you the GOAT. finally i feel at ease. i can finally see all my saved songs again. Giving you 5 stars now ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️but…. there’s still another issue i complained about, so every time i delete the app and log back in or go on private then back to public my account bugs out and some of my archived stories are frozen like a lot of them !! :(((( makes the app un enjoyable. please fix this!! like reels i had posted and are now in the story archives are frozen and won’t play… i love watching my old stories and some of them are frozen? not just the reels but some of my own photos or vids i posted in my story archive are frozen. :( once you fix this you will earn all my respect back. this app has been around for so long and is the most popular app, i feel there shouldn’t be issues like this still? the whole point of instagram is the posts and some of my archived stories are frozen and won’t play .. what’s the point then? once this gets fixed i’ll love you forever and will earn my full 5 stars.

fix instagram. I had an Instagram for over a decade and in november it was suspended for "fraud". I had never violated any of the community guidelines. I filed several appeals with videos of my face and sent several emails to Instagram support without a response. This was during hurricane Helene disaster in my area and without phone lines this was one of the only ways to contact some people. My Facebook was also disabled as a result. There Was never a response to my suspension and eventually I got an email saying it had been permanently banned again. I've never violated any of the community policies. I created a new Facebook and Instagram account which I have had for less than a month. Twice now, my Instagram account has suspended me from doing certain activities like adding friends or liking and viewing stories. I don't like an excessive amount of stories or comment excessively. I also did not follow a large number of people. I was only trying to follow the ones I had followed previously on my prior Instagram. Today l received another notice that my account has been disabled for fraud. This time it requested not only a video of my face but a picture of my license or ID. I submitted both but l'm not hopeful since I didn't get a response last time. There is clearly an issue with suspending accounts incorrectly, there should be a team to be able to respond and correct this, especially since it's some peoples only form of contact with others. Today Games Apps

Reporting posts. I absolutely love instagram. I love scrolling through feed and stories a lot. But, anymore, when I do that there’s so many graphic posts that made its way into my feed somehow. It’s disgusting. It’s thinks from completely naked women (or women in only fishnets) trying to sell themselves all the way to the most recent post, a guy shooting another guy with a rifle in the head (with NO graphic post warning). I understand that instagram doesn’t have a lot of control of what people post when they do, but I’ve reported more posts like these than I can count in the last few months with absolutely no response from instagram. I’m extremely disappointed. I don’t need to see posts like this and neither do 13 year olds who use this app. Most of the time, it’s meme/funny pages that are associated with these posts, but it’s not actually them because they’re tagged in it somehow so I can see it. So no matter how many pages I block, another one will pop up just because I want to see quotes! I can’t go through 5 posts on my page without seeing these things. Instagram, PLEASE take this feature away. PLEASE save everyone from seeing these awful posts. At the least, PLEASE give me a response to my reports. I know for a fact other people are reporting them, and I want to know that at least 1 of the 150 posts I’ve reported so far has been taken down. MAKE INSTAGRAM KID FRIENDLY AGAIN!! At least to where I don’t lose my appetite.

WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE OUT THERE. I love Instagram and have had an active account for almost 10 years! My experience has always been relatively unproblematic, however in this last week, I received an account ban for tagging people I know in a comment under a post. I tried multiple times to contact support or even get the algorithm’s decision reviewed, but instagram barred me from reporting any kind of problem. I have multiple screenshots of the comment I made and it doesn’t go against any of their policies!! The algorithm’s decision to mark my comments as misleading or spam was highly misguided, but for the life of me, I can’t seem to get into contact with anyone about this issue! I have a lot of people who I connect with on Instagram and it’s scary to see that my account is completely locked down with no way to appeal the decision. Here’s a copy of the comment in case you’re wondering what got my account locked: “ Last summer, I got stuck in lake powell with about 30 other people and all I remember are the countless games of skyjo and five crowns. I listen to my powell playlist whenever I'm down, because it helps me remember how it felt to be there in that moment, away from the world. Love you guys!! [@person, person and person]”

Sad. Ive had multiple accounts since 2015 … I used to be addicted to social media … Now that I’m not I can see all the many things wrong with social media and especially this app … The shopping feature is dumb … The moving buttons around is dumb … Having only one account get an update when the other doesn’t, even though it’s the same app on the same phone, is dumb … I also really miss the layout where the profile pic was on the right and the followers number wasn’t big in everyone’s faces and the name and bio were bigger as well … That being said I do like that the views and likes can be hidden etc … The reels try too hard to be tiktok … The messages although I like different themes there aren’t enough interesting ones … The porn bot accounts are annoying .. Real people get their accounts taken down while all the bots just keep popping up … I just wish this app was about sharing pictures and 1 minute videos again … Stories are really extra .. privacy is just unheard of these days … It’s so annoying .. Also the comparing your life to others is very easy to do with this app … Anyway I already deleted it but you guys should too it’s not only annoying but it’s unhealthy. Get your real life back and stop worrying about what others are doing. Find yourself. Get a career. Be happy. Read a book or write one. Go outside. Get a job. Pick up some productive hobbies. Just detach from socials. It’s not real life.

Great, but needs some issues fixed.. Instagram as a whole ever since I got it last summer has a been a great experience for me. I’ve been able to connect with my friends faster than I would’ve without it, and it’s a good thing to have when I’m bored and have nothing else to do. However, after having Instagram for many months I have discovered a couple of issues that are driving me nuts. First, on the home page once every so often the several most recent posts get mixed up in a seemingly RANDOM ORDER. I don’t like this at all because the post that gets moved to the top is most likely a post that I don’t want to see again for a while, like today that post is one that I don’t like at all and would rather not see AGAIN, and also because I someone who likes his home page posts to be precisely in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. Second, when an Instagram update comes around, the caption for it should say more than just fixing bugs and issues on Instagram, like what exactly that update is going to do with certain pages on the app and why. Please take the time to deal with these issues that I’ve stated above so that in the near future I’ll be able to confidently give Instagram a FIVE STAR RATING instead of a four star rating.

Log in Bug. I am a common Instagram user. I think it offers great things and ways to explore. However, I attempted to log-in to my other account and it wouldn't let me. It kept saying "Sorry, there was a problem with your request." It then logged me out of my main account. Now, every time I attempt to log-in to my main account errors upon errors continue popping up. It says my password is incorrect even though that same password works when logging in through Safari or on other devices. When I try to sign-in using my phone number it says the codes don't work or there were problems processing my request. When I try links from my email or sms they never work. There's always an error. I attempted to sign in to multiple accounts and I am unable to on the app. It's only possible through web browsers. This isn't the first time this has happened either. I've had this issue before and through reading some reddit miracle I was able to log back in, but only to my main. I've tried so many different ways to troubleshoot but none of them are working. I refuse to factory rest my phone and lose all of the data I have on here. It's extremely frustrating trying to use the app and ultimately give the company more money, but it won't even allow me to log into any accounts. I can't even create a new one. Please fix this bug, I know for a fact that I am not the only one who has experienced this.

Ad settings don’t work well. I am a person who believes in modesty. As this person I don’t want to be getting ads of women in lingerie and clothing that looks like basically nothing. I tried going to my settings and saying “see less” of lingerie-related and fashion-related stuff, but that stuff is still coming up. It’s awful. I hate it. As a religious person, I would like a better way to keep inappropriate and sexual ads out of my feed. Also a way to limit things like in inappropriate romance comics of people having sex and raunchy depictions of men and women (even if sex scenes are just portrayed in a suggestive way I still don’t want them). I have been reporting these inappropriate comics because they inappropriately objectify the sacred human body and I believe in portraying bodies in a way that is modest and wholesome. Any other advice? Also it is critical to be better at fighting racism. I’ve reported comments with racial slurs like the n-word only for them to get left up like there was nothing wrong. But everything is wrong with those comments. Every person deserves to feel safe on social media and as long as comments with slurs are allowed to remain, people will not feel safe. Please work to take down comments with racial slurs. They are not ok at all, no matter how much they are being “reclaimed.” They are still racist. Please take down comments with racial slurs.

Still can’t view liked images/reels. For months now I’ve had the same issue of not being able to view my liked picture and reels. Between me and the people I know who also use Instagram for iPhone, im the only one who doesn’t have the “settings>account>posts you’ve liked” setting anymore. And I was willing to let go viewing liked pictures because I found out that reels had an option to view liked reels, even if it was buggy. But now, neither option exists so liking pictures or reels is pointless. I basically have no reason to come back to this app because I can’t even go back and look at the art or tutorials I’ve liked/might want to use as a reference. I’ve also tried to contact whatever nonexistent customer service there is with no answer back whatsoever. Seriously, if you Google their customer service contact list, the only option is to report an issue through Instagram. There is no email, phone number, nothing actually useful that lets you know that your complaints or questions will be seen by a human being. Heaven forbid something good ever comes back to this app, such as the fixing of the broken algorithm that makes you view the same posts for weeks at a time. I’ve had to unfollow so many people because it was the only method to fixing the issue. Lazy, lousy excuse for “customer care.” Might as well go back to DeviantArt if you care about being an online artist in the modern day.

New Update. I love Instagram, it’s like a more modern version of Facebook thats basic enough for my grandma to understand but still fun for me to use. However I don’t know if this is a fluke or apart of the update. A message came up saying Instagram limits how much likes we can do on comments at a time to stop bullying... I just want to know who thought this was a good idea. This is a social media app that’s like the whole point, liking is literally the foundation of every media. If you have a limit whether your intentions are bad or not your going to end up being wiped for existence. And also I don’t know who thought a limit on liking comments would prevent bullying but that person has obviously never really been bullied in their entire life because that does nothing. The only thing limiting likes is going to do is leave Instagram with bad rating and have your audience delete the app and go to another platform that allows them to do what social media is suppose to be able to do. Speaking of such I won’t delete the app yet because I’m hoping this is a fluke but I will be switching to another platform, for the rest of the month, that is able to do its job. I appreciate the concern for bullying but find a way to help prevent it that doesn’t effect everyone and take away from the purpose of social media.

It’s a mess now. I’ve had Instagram since 2013. For a while the updates were improving the experience especially as instagram grew in popularity. Probably in the last year I’ve grown to really hate instagram. It’s following the trend of all other social media sites, It’s 75% ads, and if you respond to ads saying they aren’t relevant or you don’t like them or whatever it doesn’t make a difference. For example I get a lot of alcohol adds, probably because I'm in my 20s, I’ve asked to stop seeing them a million times and I still see them daily. The algorithm is awful. My following feed is always in a weird order, I don’t see so many of my friends posts, and after every 2 posts it’s an add or a suggested account or suggested content. Doesn’t make sense. The popular page or for you page, idk what it’s called, is terrible. I was pregnant almost 2 years ago and my entire recommended feed is pregnancy related. But the worst feature by far is the reels. I despise the reels. It’s trying to be TikTok but it’s not. And it’s really just reposted TikTok’s or content that’s pretty unpleasant in my opinion. If I wanted to watch TikToks I wouldn’t have deleted TikTok. The app is a mess. It’s not fun, and I can’t stand scrolling for more than a few minutes. Also the amount of spam accounts in my Dms is ridiculous. I get tagged in spam posts daily. I report every time but it makes no difference.

I’M UPSET!!!. I’m writing this review because I’ve been using Instagram ever since 2013 and I’m very upset about the new update and features. Instagram has been my favorite app for a very long time but recently I’ve felt super conflicted about whether or not I even enjoy being on the app anymore. I don’t like the fact that posts don’t show up in chronological order anymore, it’s very hard for me to see what my followers post now! I think it’s super inconvenient to have to click on ‘view older posts’ in order to see posts from people that you follow. I’m not sure if anyone else is having this problem but my Instagram stories are messed up as well. People who I personally know and interact with used to be at the top of my viewers list but now my viewers list is in a super random order and random people that I don’t even know or care about are at the top of my viewers list. I feel like I’m stuck in a nightmare or something because I really miss the way that my Instagram used to be set up/ the layout of my Instagram before the update. PLEASE UNDO THE UPDATE AND NEW FEATURES, I’M NOT A FAN! I’m sure a lot of other people agree with my comments and concerns as well!

Downhill and Outdated. Instagram has really gone downhill over the years, and it's hard to ignore the company's unethical practices and obsession with profit over user experience. First, the app is notorious for its data-stealing tendencies. Instagram collects vast amounts of personal information, often without clear consent or transparency. It feels like the platform is constantly tracking you, from what you like to where you go, all in an effort to sell your data to advertisers. The idea that your every move is monetized is unsettling, and there's very little control or accountability on Instagram's part. Functionality-wise, Instagram has become a mess. The interface is cluttered, outdated, and user-unfriendly. What used to be a straightforward app is now buried under layers of ads, stories, and recommendations you didn’t ask for. The algorithm seems more focused on pushing sponsored content and irrelevant posts than showing you what you actually want to see. Every update brings more confusion and frustration, with features being broken or hidden behind confusing menus. At this point, Instagram feels less like a fun social platform and more like a corporate machine designed to harvest data and maximize profits. The app's original charm has been overshadowed by constant ads, privacy concerns, and a lack of innovation. It's hard to recommend Instagram to anyone who values their privacy or a good user experience. There are much better alternatives out there.

Sensitive content. I follow several artists / content creators whose content is deemed “sensitive” by instagram. I know for a fact that most of these accounts never show up in my feed despite the fact that I’M FOLLOWING THEM. I’ve even gone thru certain pages and liked several posts at a time in an attempt to show the ig algorithm that I want to see the content that I follow. To make matters worse, now everyone is talking about this new sensitive content filter but I don’t have it available in my settings. I have updated, reinstalled and combed thru the app’s settings to no avail. So basically, IG refuses to show me the content that I follow. Instead, I am constantly having tiktoks and ads shoved down my throat. To make matters worse the only content they seem to deem “sensitive” is nudity, specifically any nudity that may be portrayed from a female perspective. Political propaganda and misinformation are NOT considered sensitive content apparently, so my explore page has no shortage of casual racism for me to pick through, not to mention all the fast fashion and ponzi schemes. It’s honestly pathetic how transparent instagram is. They only care about content that they will get paid to show you. They don’t care about “filtering sensitive content” and they definitely don’t care about preventing the spread of misinformation. I wish more than anything that an alternative to IG would become mainstream, this platform is seriously dead. You killed it. Congratulations.

Music/ notes. I have had troubles with the music feature on instagram for MONTHS now. I am not able to use any music other than the few automatically shown ones that are there when I click the option, and all the songs are in some foreign language or they're instrumentals of some sort. I am not able to search for any song whatsoever as it will just tell me there are no results. I have reported this problem to instagram multiple times over the course of about 5 or 6 months and they have yet to respond in any sort of way, let alone fix the problem. I know i'm not the only one dealing with this as i've seen in reviews, as well as on other social medias such as twitter, that there have been a good amount of other people dealing with the same issues. Plus the notes that everyone can enjoy and have fun I don’t have and feel left out. This problem has been aggravating and upsetting, and the fact that i and many others have tried to reach instagram to fix this issue, yet have not even been addressed, only adds to those emotions. The music and notes was one of, if not THE most used feature for me on instagram. I have tried multiple methods on my own to resolve this issue but nothing has worked. Hoping instagram can get to the bottom of this sooner rather than later.

Dear Instagram. Dear Instagram, I would like to take this time out to say thank you for your incredible artwork. You have created art in its most socialable form where hearts can come together and be at one. You have open doors to countless and millions and have provided opportunities that only a mind of higher overstanding could produce. You have done the work from before you started without out seeing the final outcome but knowing that it would and is amazing, great, beautiful, influential, motivional, inspirational, accounted for in the universe as a string that can connect each and every one as those who believe that they will reach the finish line but who continue to move. You have set an example sample of the nuts and bolts that work the world and has played a major role in the visible aspect of faith. I see you and I appreciate you and thankful for your contribution to the world on both sides of the scale. Your vibration is felt and respected by me and the rest of the connection to each and every one who's involved in a part of your service. Whether you like it or not you have touched the heart of the fathers and mothers in ways inexplicable. It is my honor to gratitude on this review in my own words. Thank you 10

I’m unable to comment. So I checked the community guidelines in reference to liking commenting, limiting comments and likes and all that stuff and I was like OK interesting!!! I wasn’t in any violation of anything. My account was not reported for anything or another of that nature and it does it matter if it’s a friend or celebrity or strangers account that I would post to try to post a comment on or like it would not go. So it would allow me to like a post but if I go back to it sometimes it like it’s not there sometimes it is still there but forest commenting on a post, it gave me an error and told me to retry and it would say something about community and I’m like my comment is negative directory sexually explicit mean or any of that nature and I don’t stalk people. I don’t do none of that stuff so I am confused as to why I’m unable to comment on a post and say congratulations or be like whatever you know it’s crazy. and like I said before, I’m not stalking nobody even being rude or mean to nobody, and it shows that my account was not reported for anything or blocked or anything like that and also it showed that I still had access to all features of this app but it seems like everything’s a lie and then it said to update my app. My app is updated so I don’t know what’s going on so maybe you guys can explain to me why I am unable to comment on family members friends in anyone’s post.

What’s Wrong With You Guys?(still a great app). It’s been 2 years ever since I’ve ever had to come this far just to report this problem, and I thought that I’d never have to do it again. I don’t know when’s the last time that Instagram have updated their app, or when they started doing this, but it’s pretty dumb. You guys are getting in the way of me being able to get followers and promote my small business/ small account. Every time I try to follow someone, an error message pops up. You guys have put a limit on the amount of people that I am able to follow, and I only follow 45 people and I just made my new account like not even a week ago. I am activity blocked for no reason, and I have no idea why. I can’t follow anyone at all, and this have been going on for 4 days now.. I’d say that you guys are causing problems for small artist like me. I’d also like to say that a month and year ago you guys were an amazing app for small business owners to come on and promote their small business, but now you guys are doing way too much. There’s too many things going on the world for you guys to be worried about who’s following who. Instead, worry about the n*dity that’s going on💗 there’s plenty of it. Lol, to whomever may come across this, or even if Instagram may ACTUALLY read this, please excuse me if I made myself seem like a “Karen” or if like I had a attitude, I am a kind person. I tried putting this in the best way as I can.

Another Twitter. If you say the “wrong” thing too many times the straight way delete your account without warning. Twitter was se spring people’s tweets during covid, well Instagram is fraught way deleting accounts. They give you zero warning or explanation. They are violating the first amendment of the U.S. constitution just as Twitter was. You know if it’s the “wrong” thing to say because it warns you when you comment saying are you sure because a similar comment was reported. They can even later try to say you violated their terms and conditions as that’s most likely what they’ll say but it’s a coo out as those terms violate the U.S. constitution which is supreme law in this country. And yet they allow liberal trash to be posted. What is wrong with society these days where we can’t even speak the truth or our opinions without being silenced as if the U.S. Constitution means nothing? They have accounts on here where women show basically everything and link their only fans and even some subscription accounts where they have minor females showing in barely any clothes and dancing like a stripper, but yet we aren’t allowed to speak our minds any more. I just recently had my account of many years deleted and have been trying to follow everyone again (including family) just to have it deleted in less than a week, again with no explanation or way or appeal. I’m done with these democrats. They’re not even human, they’re 100% anti-American.

Maintenance. I have had a frustrating issue for several months now where certain features either make the app crash suddenly, or do not work entirely. One feature that does not work at all. Not a single time... is the ability to post multiple photos in a singular post. I’ve tried with just 2 photos. I’ve tried with the maximum amount of photos in a photoset(10). Not a single time has this worked. After adding a caption with some hashtags, tagging friends, and waiting for the post to load. It fails to post every single time. I’ve tried this on both my old phone iPhone 6S plus, as well as my most recent phone purchase the iPhone X. This feature has never worked for me, often times being so frustrated I’d neglect the app for a few days and then find myself back. After attempting to delete the app as well as the app cache and reinstalling on both phones the feature is still inoperative. I also agree with many other Instagram users that the feed is very annoying that I’ll see posts I’ve seen already, or posts from several days ago. Chronological order?? If Instagram was more oriented on creating a seamless working application they may have a lot more users, or more frequent users of the app. Every bug I’ve experienced, I’ve submitted through the in app report a bug.

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:((( get it together pls||| Solve this problem for me and others pls. Instagram is my most favourite social media platform ever! My most used app on my phone until 3 months ago I couldn’t use it anymore. It would make me keep re-trying. But never let me log in. I can log in perfectly on other devices but my phone. It’s very difficult for me to bring two devices around just to use Instagram. But also my other device is too big to be able to carry around everywhere and also that device is broken a little. So it’s very difficult to use it. I think this is happening to me because I broke some rules. I really didn’t. It’s says I was “violating” something. Even though I never did. But, I really just want to get back to using Instagram on my phone. It would make life so much easier. I honestly love Instagram so much! I can’t live without it! I go on it like 24/7 but not as much since i can’t use it properly! I hope you can fix this.

Uh What?. I haven’t been using instagram in like a month and they’re are telling me to verify my email by using codes and phone number too, they have no reason on why to do that since I haven’t used my account for like a month, pretty sure this happen like a few times. Kinda stupid tbh, it’s not like my account is suspicious at all if I haven’t use instagram in a month or so. They said I will have to wait for a day to verify my instagram account, even tho the system knows the codes and which to send the codes to the email attached to the instagram account, I have put the codes on there and there are no errors what so ever, including the phone number. Ain’t no way instagram get suspicious for not using instagram for a long time. Kinda stupid and should be removed as I didn’t share my password to anyone or click any suspicious links that could get my instagram account stolen. Garbage feature to have and it’s super overprotective, can’t even go off instagram for like a month. 💀no reason on why to look to confirm an account as I provided the system codes to verify my email and phone number. Seriously, instagram thinks I have been so suspicious for not being on instagram for a month, I didn’t even rate limit instagram or spam on comments on other posts and haven’t been acting suspicious on my instagram account at all since I haven’t use it for like a month. Next is 5 stars until it gets removed. While this review is at 1 star.

Important request. Hi, I have non epileptic seizures (seizures that mimic epileptic seizures without sending electrical currents through the brain and instead is caused by something functional in the brain). Triggers for these seizures can include ✨strobe lights✨. Lately I have been coming across more and more videos that include strobe lights without the use of flash warnings and I usually comment to politely ask to add a warning however in some cases comments will be disabled or the creator with refuse to put a warning. I know that this isn’t Instagrams fault but I have some ideas to help reduce the risk of seizures from videos containing strobe. I feel as if Instagram should add a feature to report videos containing flash to hide the video from photosensitive viewers much like the warnings used for graphic material. This can help protect ourselves from future seizures and flair ups. I know that some people think this might be a dumb request “there aren’t warnings in the real world” “toughen up and get over it” but the thing is that this IS the real world, we can’t get over it because that’s just our life. For some people no flash warnings can be a matter between life or death. You’re playing with peoples lives here. People with seizures have gone through so much trauma, experiencing seizures are terrifying no matter how many you may get. Please consider this feature, I’ve had enough of this, and I am so tired. This is so important to us

Explore is terrible. My explore is not showing me posts I want to see. Instead of the pole fitness and exotic dance that is my passion and 90% of what I interact with, I’m seeing posts of hair, makeup and other boring stuff (that I barely interact with). I’m sick to death of the wrongful censorship of pole dancers, and sick of not seeing the posts I want to see because Instagram’s rules are so vague and not equally applied, don’t get me started on the shadowbanning! Whats needed are CLEAR rules, equally applied, and possibly a phone assistance line for clarification so that these poor women (many of whom using this platform to assist their career) don’t feel like they’re treading on eggshells with every post, never sure if their account is about to be deleted. Some people work HARD on their accounts, on beautiful photography, dance and art that is deemed ‘against community guidelines’ and deleted. You are wrongly silencing art, freedom and self-love. I’m especially disgusted by the sexism - seems fine for men to post sexually suggestive photos of women but god forbid she take it in her own hands to love and appreciate herself! It’s atrocious and manipulative and you’re not fooling anyone. People are going to wake up and stop using this platform if this doesn’t improve soon.

Seeing likes 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞. Noooooo why did you remove the number of likes on other people’s posts??? What if people want to know how many likes someone has???? Ik it’s because we shouldn’t focus on the likes, but come on, what if others want to see if your recent picture got more likes than another one because you said ‘I feel like I did better on this post” or “this is my best post yet!” Likeee... other people want to see how many likes people have, because they support one another, and for that to be taken away.... isn’t that the whole point of Instagram?? To post and see how many people engage with your posts???? And Ik it’s not about all of the likes, but it’s fun to see if other people’s posts did better than they’re last because they might’ve idk they improved on something and it’s just engaging, I used to click on the likes and follow those people who liked on that persons post, to see who they are, what they do.. its just a bit sad now 😞 I love Instagram, but please, I don’t want this feature

Censorship at its finest !. This app is not what I though it would be a few years ago, as millions of users across the world, we were fooled to think that it’s a social media app where you can interact and share content freely, only to realise that what you share is controlled and censored, it gets filtered to fit a certain narrative, banning activists accounts who spread truth, human justice, and news we don’t see on mainstream media, limiting reach and following and engagement selectively content, unnecessarily covering posts to cover up for crimes committed by a certain group, instagram is biased to support the rich and the wealthy of course, shutting down any global voice that gives voice to the voiceless, or defend justice and humanity. I can’t wait to find an alternative to get off it for life and delete it off my phone !! It’s the worst app you can ever be on, I pray for the fall of this instagram and FB era, Instagram will become history and will be remembered for being complicit in war crimes and serving political agenda and propaganda for life. No such thing as freedom of expression! No such think as unbiased policy, or fair guidelines, There is a clear conflict of interest in the role of ceo and head of instagram and his job … he must resign from his position immediately!

Reposting. It has come to my attention that when someone posts something, they can be 'reposted'. This has unfortunately led to anonymous users reposting other people's work and claiming it as their own (the most common of these being art thieves). These users put work and effort into their whatever-it-was and having someone claim it as their own without the work can sting. Most people (often fans of the artist) will repost with credit to the creator, but there are those who don't. Maybe if Instagram sent a notification every time one of your posts were reposted; art thieves wouldn't be much of a problem as the creator can check if they were credited and if they weren't, they can simply report the 'thief' for plagiarism. It might be useful. Oh and yes, I am aware to all those reading this that the Instagram creators probably don't read or take into consideration the reviews of their app. If so, then may this be a helpful warning to whoever is reading it about thieves.

Needs a total overhaul!!!. Whilst Instagram is one of the social media platforms I prefer it does have some annoying features that are absent. The easiest that should be added is an indication next to a persons name as to whether they are one of your followers are not. Such a simple fix and could save a lot of time going through feeds. Another huge change that’s long overdue is the resolution and full screen viewing of photos. Come on already. The app is about sharing photos and we are still stuck with crappy cropped, low resolution photos that you can’t see in full screen. Stop trying to make Instagram what it isn’t with paying more attention to reels and get with what people want it for. Or sit back and watch other apps take over your space. I add on to my review the number of restrictions Instagram automatically applies to peoples accounts. If you like and follow to many peoples pages (the entire point of Instagram) you get restrictions. If you try to manage your own account and unfollow or block to many people you get restricted. So whilst they make money from your creative content they restrict how you even manage it.

Nothing but trouble. When it works it’s great but when it doesn’t it’s useless. I’ve been really disappointed with Instagram lately. I run all the promotions for my business through Instagram but the promotion payments don’t come out straight away. It doesn’t specify when they come out, only at some random date that you can’t promote anymore because you owe payments. When you try to pay for them, a blank screen with “try again later” comes up. When it finally works, you owe about 10 promotions all at once and it doesn’t allow you to make the full payment. Only success I’ve had is processing a couple of dollars at a time which takes a painstaking amount of time that I could be using to do more constructive things for my business. If it was any other app I’d be yelling “it’s a scam it’s a scam!!”. I’m running a business. I have items I need to promote and sell and you’re effecting my sales. Do you want my money or not Instagram?! Or should I take it elsewhere and advertise through conventional methods? Support are useless too. None of my requests have been answered. Really starting to think the whole app is a sinking ship and I should advertise elsewhere.

Our Energy Is Better Spent In Reality. Instagram has no control over privacy or user well-being. Instagram’s process for recovering accounts if hacked is cumbersome or non-existent. Instagram keeps largely silent about that issue, while thousands of accounts are subjected negativity daily. We pour so much of ourselves into these devices and platforms either through personal details, business information, stories, photos, etc and it is scary to find out that this "bubble of security" we all think we have isn't actually so private or secure in the end at all. It feels powerless and sickening. If you choose to invest so much of yourself and time in technology- know that at anytime it can be taken away. It’s noteworthy that Instagram will leave you abandoned and unsupported. We’re just a number and money generating cog, masquerading as if we have any control. Time and energy better served in reality. Social media apps are unhealthy, and designed to manipulate and take advantage of human psychology, hormones, and emotional well-being for a quick buck, to keep you scrolling, keep you clicking, keep you buying, keep you identifying as someone other than your true self. People manipulate its use to abuse, bully, harass, berate, steal, sexualise and more negative connotations–including being a catalyst for suicide, social media does more harm than good. It’s worth acknowledging–our energy is best served in reality.

Go back to the old posts. Look I think that instagram should go back to the old style of grid posts. I like only having one size of photo, if you wanted a landscape in a portrait photo dump you made it work. Now it’s the portrait photos that look out of place with the borders on the side and I think that looks less classy and complete. I also dislike when I swipe along a carousel of photos it seems there’s a skinny white border in between each photo rather than there being just the border of the actual photo, again related to the lack of classiness in the post - I don’t like it. Posting with music is a game changer, love that. Very fun and gives posts a bit of personality. Don’t like that you can’t hold on a DM to view the message (like in messenger) like I don’t want to be opening messages left right and centre and be forced to leave someone on seen while I think of a reply, I want to be able to hold it down, have a preview, go have a think and have zero pressure on me. Have been an instagram user for almost 10 years which is crazy.

“There was an error with your request”. About a year ago I was logged out of one of my accounts on Instagram and every time I tried to log back in, I was confronted by the message, “There was an error with your request”. I tried everything, including looking this message up online, but no one on any forums had had any similar issues. Thankfully, I had just changed phones and SIM cards so I was able to use the old phone, that didn’t have a SIM card, and log onto my second account on that device, whilst still using this phone for my main account. However, about 6 months ago, the same thing happened with my main account. I tried everything. I deleted and reinstalled the app, I reset my phone, I went to Optus and got my SIM card changed, nothing worked. So here I am, a year (in total) later, and Instagram STILL doesn’t work on this phone, for no apparent reason. I am desperate. Somebody PLEASE help!

unhappy. dear instagram people, i am unhappy and unsatisfied with how you are handling misconduct on your app. Especially how this app allows to make new accounts so easily and for frauds like people i know personally to miss use this app. I believe you should really get to work and this because my dear friend got hurt emotionally and i’m upset that this whole thing could have been prevented by you guys, and how the new update should make people who keep making new accounts be banned. I have given you one star review because this miss use of this app can really lead to something big as you know there is a lot of bullying going on through social media and your app is one of the main use of communication. Studies have shown that this app can leave very serious mental health issues and cause severe unhealthy thoughts and emotions, i’m positive this problem can be prevented and solved if you guys take in consider the amount of reports and bad reviews this app gets. please get to the bottom of this.

Updated to iOS 16.1 which shrinks both sides of app. Ever since I recently updated my 2021 iPad Pro 12.9 inch model to iOS 16.1 this week I noticed that when I started using Instagram again on my iPad the screen had shrunk to a smaller screen! So now when I’m watching stories half of the photos are chopped off on both sides of the screen including the top and bottom of the screen so I can’t view the rest of the screen! Then when I’m on someone’s account it’s the same on there too! Can’t see their profile photos either because half of it is cut off and then when I’m trying to post a story myself there’s no button to click on to post my story as it just comes up with a text box where you can add text to your story so there’s no post to story button anymore! Plus when I’m trying to type text into my post I don’t have access to the full text box as it keeps dropping down the screen so it’s like out of view and I got to keep scrolling down with my finger to see what I’m typing! Plus I noticed that it’s doing this big cropping thing on another app I use as well so it’s not just Instagram but one other app that I use frequently as well but it’s been mainly on Instagram though and it’s been really annoying lately as it never did it before I updated my software to iOS 16.1 and all my other apps are working fine! Because I can’t really post anything properly at the moment either on stories and on posts because of this problem! Please fix this problem please!

Meta Doesn’t Care About Its Users. Meta steals their users’ art to feed their AI that nobody wants. It’s copyright theft, plagiarism. We are all shouting for the feature to be removed, but Meta doesn’t care, as long as it adds to an addictive algorithm. Who cares what these unpaid artists think, amirite? Hundreds of artists are already leaving for a better social media app that doesn’t rip off its user base. I miss when social media was about connecting with people, not about whatever makes the most ad revenue in their algorithm. Be human for once, Meta. Snap out of that egotistical view that you can do anything with your platforms and still have a monopoly over social media. Another app will come along with actual humans behind the wheel that care about its users, and Meta will be left behind. Your god awful publicity isn’t doing you any favors. AI is already under scrutiny for using information it shouldn’t have access to. It’s a liability. So yeah anyway please remove AI from your apps, nobody wants it. I want to look at beautiful art that has a story behind it made by real people, not a soulless ripoff of whatever your AI can find.❤️

SERIOUS ISSUES WITH THE CAMERA!!!. Whenever i take videos from my device and then flip the camera, the video before flipping the camera becomes weird. As if i was using some kind of filter that makes everything look bit thinner and smaller. I don't know if I am the only one having this trouble but i would appreciate if the developer team would look into it!! Not only this, but most of the time my camera freezes and just blacks out and I can't take any videos or photos. Even after refreshing it still doesn't work so i just have to remove instagram from the background application and only then it is possible. However the problem is not in the feeds or in the message section, just the camera section. I hope the developers get this message and try to fix the problem. Other than that, instagram is just perfect.

Please add an edit feature!!!. I love Instagram and thank you so much for creating the app, it is amazing and a great way to express yourself, indulge in photography and creativity and advertising businesses whilst feeling good looking back at your feed at all the great memories and achievements accomplished. The one thing that annoys me and would be really handy is if Instagram could have an edit feature, where you can go back and edit/add pictures/videos (like FaceBook) once you’ve posted them. This would change everything in all the right ways, knowing that once you’ve posted something and realise you’ve made a mistake, you can go back and fix it. This would mean so much and I’m sure a lot of people/businesses would agree with me on this, please add this feature if you can! Thank you, it would be immensely appreciated. On a whole note, thank you so much for this app and keep up the great work! 💖 - Molly Roberts

📦. What was good or useful about Instagram is gradually whittled away until all social media platforms are the same, partitioning each individual into a separate box with a tailored stream of content designed to retain engagement and simulate an idea of community connection. Updates are pushed asynchronously, which means that none of your friends have that new bad feature you just got, so they don’t understand what you’re complaining about, until one day you all do and it’s just how it works now. I’ve noticed the app withholds the dopamine hit from seeing the red dot that indicates ppl have liked your posts until you’ve checked the app a couple times that day already; if you check it earlier, the likes are there, but really, that validation is just another tool in the quest to retain as much of your attention as possible. Even beyond theses criticisms, for an image-centric platform, Instagram stores very low quality jpeg images, with some kind of automatic sharpen/contrast filter that makes non-photographic images look particularly bad. Think critically about how you engage with this app, and pay attention to how the incremental changes make you feel. When you add them together, do you like where this platform is going?

Random update thoughts. I was wondering, if you could add a option to organise messages a similar way to how it is on the creator / business accounts, but instead for private accounts, because I have ocd and it really annoys me that I don’t have a sorting system for like my favourite/important chats, and they’re all just clumped together, also could you add a option to who sees your activity status, say there’s a certain person you don’t want to see it for certain reasons, you could add a sort of “block list” or add it onto the restrictions settings, where they cannot see if you’re active, but everyone else who isn’t selected can see your activity status, also maybe custome themes? Like 3D, or from our camera roll? These are just some random and cool ideas, if you read this then thank you very much, and I hope you have a pleasant day! Keep up the great work on making Instagram amazing and safe :) - sincerely Minx/Faye (they/them)

Stories progression broken. I have submitted a support request an monitored the reviews here. It seems some people have the same issue I have, with stories looping indefinitely and showing a full bar at the top instead of giving the loaded timer of auto-playing through a story. I have to tap to progress to next for each individual story, breaking videos into parts and ruining the experience. My partner has the same model phone and his Instagram does not do this. Every time a new update comes out I have hopes this may be fixed, but nothing. All online resources deal with other problems of Instagram and this new iOS update. My problem started just before I upgraded from 14 to new iOS 15. I actually only updated in hopes it would fix the problem. I know it’s not the end of the world having to click through stories but it seems so random and gets really frustrating when there has been no communication or admission of this bug anywhere else than the few user reviews I find on here. Submitting my own to contribute to the flow of fault reports so others may feel heard…

I don’t see my friends and my friends don’t see me. I’ve had it for 12 years and I’m about to delete it because it’s just full of junk. The app is garbage and the algorithm is worse than ever. I want to see what my friends are doing. We don’t post every day because WE ARE NOT INFLUENCERS, so therefore we don’t appear on each others feeds because our engagement isn’t high enough. My feed consists of celebrities, meme accounts, and about 5 people I know irl because I like their photos and now they’re the only people I ever see, plus a million sponsored/suggested posts from accounts I don’t follow. I have 1300 followers and used to get at least 300 likes on my posts. Now I get less than 100. If they didn’t make hiding likes an option GLOBALLY I would have literally deleted the app because it’s embarrassing at this point. I hope Elon makes an Instagram knockoff that brings back the algorithm from 2016 because I’d be the first to join and excited to get rid of this piece of trash. Meta has bought every app and made it worse. I use TikTok and X way more now bc if I’m going to see random content that has nothing to do with people I am friends with then I’m going to go to TikTok which has a way better algorithm and content.

horrible update. i honestly love instagram, but the newest update is so awful that i want to rip out my eyeballs and dip them in some cold ice water to ease the pain. i understand that the app ‘tiktok’ has created a huge competition, but that doesn’t justify all the social media apps copying them and turning their apps into the same thing. i was fine with reels even though i didnt use them, but when i saw that Instagram wanted to become more video based i knew it was going to go downhill. whats the point of having 5 different social media apps if now they’re all just video applications that fill up your screen? instagram was my favorite app to use since it was the most simple, with not many changes and looked refined with the format posting and the dimensions. now with the full screen dimension the colors are just way to contrasting and chaotic. not to mention it doesnt make me want to keep scrolling. the white inbetween the posts on the home page was much better, and i honestly think the new version is atrocious 😄 not to mention, the feed just looks out of place and doesn’t look good. for a multi billion dollar company i was expecting a much more refined and professional media design than what we got. although i understand that this might be a temporary design, i still think that it was muuuuch better before, and many can agree with me.

Review. I just post photos of nature of my state. We are in lockdown now so I “ liked” more photos of similar posts (about nature) than limits which I did not know about. Instagram restricted my comments to my own posts of nature and I can not write even the name of a plant; I can not write the name of my place on the top, I can not write even 1 word under my follower’s post. The number of my followers (I did not have too many of them, I do not sell anything, I do not have ads or anything else) started to go down. Users of Instagram should have info what are limits per 1 day, I could not find them, I had to google them. Also these restrictions just slowly kill my account. I asked for review, not too much changed. What if I will have my business in Instagram? What would happen to my customers, money, my obligation in such situation? I could not locate any info in settings or anywhere how to end instagram’s restrictions I am one of little internet ants who create billions for the biggest corporations. People like me, who are creators of your wealth and who create your jobs, should not be punished for such little imaginary “ crimes”

Used to be my favourite.... I love Instagram. I have an account that I’m trying to grow. I’ve been using Instagram for 5 years. But this new “hidden likes” feature is horrible. I understand that its meant to lessen the anxiety the app can cause, but it’s seriously taking away the core of Instagram - Liking posts. When I see a post with no likes, most people tend to not like it, whereas a post with lots of likes you are more inclined to like. Because likes are now hidden, it looks like you’re super unpopular and no one likes your stuff. Everyone I’ve spoken to hates it, because when we can’t see how many likes, whats even the point in liking things anymore. It makes no difference. Please, please bring back being able to see likes. Why should the very core principle of Instagram be removed? I don’t want to give up my account, but if I can’t see likes anymore, I’m not going to stay. It doesn’t feel like Instagram anymore - it feels like a baby-proofed platform.

Saying this app’s gone downhill is an understatement. This app used to be so good but it started with the non-chronological order of posts so now u will seen 5 posts in a row from some stupid company you forgot to unfollow and miss all your friend’s posts. Reels are just the dumbest thing since that IG tv which failed terribly. Now they changed the whole layout to make ppl use reels cause no one likes them. Its just like watching the trashy side of tik tok. the implementation of the shopping tab is clearly just a shoddy cash grab by insta. Like the only good thing they have done this entire year is let us change the colour of the app on our homescreens and that was for like 2 weeks then they removed it. Instead of actually fixing problems like the fake bots sending illicit messages to kids and deleting bipoc and lgbt+ creators accounts. they are instead trying to screw this app up as much as they can and its working. Cause no one likes these updates and its sad to see how much this whole app has been ruined since being bought by zuccers but what can you say, the creepy lizard man was bound to ruin everything we know its cause he’s salty about how we mad fun of him.

CHANGE IT BACK, THIS IS NOT TIKTOK. Absolutely DEVASTATED. I have had an average daily screen time of 2-3 hours each day on instagram. It has always been my favourite app and at this point I would probably say it’s my favourite hobby. Now if I wanted to use TikTok, I WOULD. Today my instagram has changed to an algorithm it’s never seen before. Unrelated ads every three posts, suggested accounts, “dark” newsfeed setting-which cannot even be changed? If I wanted my phone set to “dark” mode it would be. I follow a lot of people on Instagram and I am having suggested accounts to my FEED over people I genuinely know and care about what they’re posting? Please change it back. If I could PAY MONEY to remove the ads and suggested accounts from my main feed I would. (I will pay money to change it back please.) Please change the feed background colour to white or give us an option and please cut down on the ads and suggested accounts. I no longer will be using instagram on my mobile device and instead will use it on my iPad until that automatically updates to the disgrace of an “update”.

Hi I’m Lisa Boyle. I’ve been a loyal person on this instagram. I’m asking for help and messaging instagram every day I haven’t had a chine to do it today though you’ve restricted me of doing comments and activities on there which I haven’t I’m a mother I’m 49 years old and I recently had my old Instagram account which is LisaBoyle37 hacked into by a scam you say your protecting the community from me how so I mind my own business I put emojis post on posts I love that’s all I do. Pls sort this out straight away I can’t post a comment it says we have restricted certain comments and activities and protecting the community omg if your restricting me from ♥️♥️😍😍to posts on Instagram that I love then there is something absolutely wrong here it states report the problem I do so. Then instagram says thank you for reporting try again later . Your restricting me everyday plz I need help and to stop this from happening to me and I’m letting you know there’s a guy on instagram I called him out he asked me to buy him a gift card we haven’t Evan met his name is IvanJadeLi and that’s how his name was spelled on instagram. Pls I restrict LisaBoyle8815 which is me this is crazy thank you Kind Regards Lisa Boyle And I also live in Brisbane Australia

Photo qualities and too many adds pop ups. I’ve never had a problem with instagram, personally it’s my favourite social media app as I can set out my feed the way I would like it to be presented. However I’ve noticed after a week when I post a full body picture the quality is amazing at first but a week later it goes blurry and the quality changes. This frustrates me as it’s been happening since last year around November/December and I’ve re uploaded images multiple times and have the same problem. I don’t understand why the app does it but there would be no point in posting an image if it turns out blurry a week later. Also the same with Instagram stories 75% of the time they come out blurry when using other techniques to the image. Another issue that’s very bothering is having multiple adds pop up a day. The adds have became annoying and usually when I’ve wanted to find other pages I would go in the search bar area. When you follow so many pages or less, seeing multiple adds come up Especially after a busy day are becoming annoying when search down your feed. If the first issue could be attended to and fixed it would be amazing and helpful to all users who have the same problem and if the adds could be less or just something changed that would be also be helpful.

Is it time to say goodbye?. I have always been the hugest Instagram fan, a photo sharing app turned viral and became an essential for our generation! For years Instagram was updated but the core values and aspects of the app remained the same. Now we are forced to look at an interface that is confusing and unpleasant for the eye. The addition of stories was nice, the addition of reels was unnecessary but we lived with it. Now it is changing how our own feeds are presented and the addition of a shopping focused update. Myself along with other millions of users downloaded this app to socialise and share moments in our lives. Not shopping. The notifications and posting tabs have now been moved to an insignificant location, in their place is the video and shopping tabs. The core focus of Instagram has been lost, we are all more than happy to view ads to maintain a free application and cover costs but this is taking it too far. Instagram for many young people is the first early glimpse of social media, now they are instantly attacked with shopping items instead of the same simple and enjoyable experience shared by many in recent years. Sadly this is goodbye to our beloved Instagram.

Worse after every update.. Every change Instagram makes to the feed, the interface, the algorithm, the layout, aesthetic, everything — it is worse as a result. Instagram used to (even within the last 5 years) be a simple, uncluttered feed of images and the occasional video. Now it has morphed into some amalgam of every other app it competes with, and is has lost its identity completely. I’ve been on Instagram since 2010 and loved it since then, but now I find myself hating every minute I spend on the app as I am barraged with ads, never see any content from 80% of the people I actually follow, get less and less engagement on my own posts (because they are just photos), and am force fed Reels which are almost always just reposts of tiktok videos. If I wanted to watch tiktok videos, I would be on tiktok. Instagram would benefit most from sticking to (or returning to) more of the format and style that made it the best social media app to begin with. I can’t see myself using it much longer if it keeps trying to morph into 5 other apps at once. Such a mess.

How Insta changed my life and taught me that to ‘love’ or to ‘hate’ is in my own hands.. The ability to connect, to inspire and get inspired, to compete, to push my self, to excel, to get to know my fears, my insecurities but also my strengths, to learn and accept I’m no better or worse, to improve, to innovate, to fascinate, to observe, to distinguish ‘fake’ from ‘real’, to lose a little control, a little too much time spent... to then realise I’m in control. I can ‘hate’ and complain or I can ‘love’ and learn and take advantage of it all the way it works for me. I can select (it’s hard at a times!). It’s possible. You can use it for good. You can use it to get distracted. You can be misled if you’re not careful... but you can get your control back. You can make it work. You can use it as a challenge... or not. I’m still learning. Still making my mind up. It’s really a choice and I like choices.

Posts. I love instagram it’s really great and I’m only writing this review because I have one little problem that I’d really like changed if possible to make the app ten times better. And that’s when posting, it’s great you can choose who sees what, who’s tagged, whether to add location or not, but once you’ve made a post you can’t add photos or take it down to just one singular post. And I feel like with today’s technology that’s something we should be able to do. It’s just there are many posts that I know many people have that they added to many photos and have a few months later want to make it just one photo, or they’ve fallen out with friends and want to take them out and add their new friends but can’t. And currently the only way to “fix it” is to delete the post which isn’t really good when you want to leave it at the time it was posted and not have friends wonder why you’re suddenly reposting stuff from years ago. So that’s the only problem I’ve found so far and it would be great if that could be fixed.

Saved Posts UX Please Fix. I am an avid instagram user and love the app. There are a few simple changes though which would vastly improve the UX for visual collectors. Change request 1) As a user who creates overlapping collections, I want Instagram to enable me to save a post to multiple collections without using a long hold of the save button and extra clicks. This is so that I don’t accidentally unsave my posts if my long click glitches (often the case) and so I don’t need to incorporate several extra clicks to save to multiple collections. Previously this was enabled for and it was so much better than the new meta version. 2) As a user who saves posts to multiple collections, I would love if Instagram could please change the save functionality to enable us to save the specific slide in a post as the cover slide in our saved collections as often the slides in a post have no correlation and the other slides are not relevant which muddles our saved collections. E.g. someone may have a dump of photos in a post and one has an outfit picture; another of flowers; family; kitchen etc and if the front is the family then it often has no correlation to a saved collection on “outfits” or “interior design - living spaces”.

Annoying bug in the inbox. I just put 3 stars for now to get your attention but I’ll fix it later. There has been an annoying bug! I have the creator account which is great. For some messages, I write a reply but it doesn’t get sent when I press the send button and the message disappears from my editor (the part that you write the message in before hitting the send button) and then the message is lost forever! No matter how many more times I try I won’t be able to send a message so I have to exit that specific chat go somewhere else and refresh the app or something or reopen the app and then find that specific message and rewrite everything again. It’s quite frustrating because I receive so many messages so it makes my task harder, because I’ll have to remember that specific IG name (I’ll have to screenshot, my memory isn’t that good lol), if the message is slightly old I have to go to that specific time through my inbox to find the message or I have to find that specific account on IG separately and try to reply to their message and then I have to rewrite the entire message and sometimes the reply can be slightly long. Will be wonderful to see this getting fixed, let me know please if you need screenshots or videos or anything. Thank you so much! You guys are amazing! 🙏🙏🙏🙏

New update is TERRIBLE!. The new update about how hashtags work make the app practically unusable for small artists, creators, businesses and smaller accounts! You can only see top posts and recent top posts, there is no recent posts anymore. This makes things terribly difficult for smaller accounts trying to reach an audience with their content and makes it incredibly difficult to find them. As an incredibly small textile artist and costume maker, this inhibits my chance to grow as a creator and develop my hobby into actual opportunities, and so many friends are facing the exact same issue. Hashtags are meaningless now because nobody’s posts will show up anywhere, except the people who are already popular which is insanely unfair. You can’t choose what you do anymore, all you can choose is who you follow and even then your visibility to their content is limited HEAVILY. We need this fixed, because for a lot of people their businesses are a source of income and with less interaction and exposure there will be less sales. This affects peoples lives and opportunities, even the people who have a fair following on the app. A large mass of people are outraged. Know the types of users on here and know who it affects.

Account stopped working. Today, 22nd of June my account stopped working with no notification nor an alert notifying me regarding this shut down. My account stopped working since morning and its been around 20 hrs now. This issue allows me to open the app, however, none of the tabs (profile, reels, browser, chat and ext...) seem to work and are covered in text saying "RETRY". I am most certain that was not the result of misleading community guidelines, I didn't do anything wrong and this just occurred after me sending a few reels to my friends. It really is frustrating that we lose our accounts and no response is given by Instagram, is is utterly disappointing that this app doesn't provide customer service or no one that we could talk our issues to face to face as this way we're not sure if our voice is ever heard or any action is going to be taken to improve the customer experience. This has happened to me in the past where I lost my 5 years old account with lots of memories. I really wish that someone gets back to me and help me return my account please and thank. you

Glitchy and inconsistent. My biggest issue with Instagram lately is their application of community guidelines. They seem very inconsistent and biased- strictly following the guidelines with some content but not other similar content, especially when it comes to “political” content... this can greatly affect what content you are allowed to see, comment on, post and share. The “fact check” feature also seems to be bias on particular things. Reporting content and comments that are not appropriate, especially things regarding bullying and discrimination, or fake/scam accounts pretending to be other people, seems to do very little most of the time, and nothing is usually done about the post/comment you report- only suggesting you block the person you have reported, which doesn’t always fix the issue. The process for reporting things like people stealing your content (copyright infringement) and/or invading your privacy, while generally more effective and successful than the conventional way of reporting things, is also much more difficult- it’s hard to find where and how to send reports directly this way, and is more time consuming. The live streams always seem to be glitchy and troublesome, both for the host of the lives and the viewers. Editing reels and stories can also be a pain, with additional features not always loading, things being out of time after uploading, sound playing but the video being frozen, or the app crashing all together and randomly shutting down.

IG so easily hacked. Instagram doesn’t care about the security of its users. Someone from a different area changed my email and password within a few minutes of hacking my account and my two accounts have been hijacked. I got an email saying my account details were changed and the ‘secure account’ link took me to an error page. Now this scammer is sending messages to people to vote for me in surfing awards. There’s hundreds if not thousands of disappointed users that have had the same problem IG sending them in circles when you read all the online forums. You’d think Meta would be technologically advanced enough to block bots and scammers but it’s just a marketing forum disguised as a social media platform now. The IG help pages are not helpful and the links don’t work and I’ve emailed them with no reply. This also seems to be a great tactic to get users to pay for a verified IG account (blue tick) for a more promised ‘secure account’. Create a problem and a solution as they say could be what’s happening here. Or it could be separate entities scamming. Either way, the security of this platform should be better. If anyone at IG could help me, I’d appreciate it and I’d happily take back this experience. I think my accounts are lost for good and I’m not sure I have the energy to start all over again.

Photo Quality and Time.. I’m not a huge fan of social media, however, Instagram is the one app I prefer using for my artwork aside from Tumblr. The photo upload quality both on the Instagram stories and posts could definitely use some work, though. It’s horrible and ruins the look of my art, which is particularly irritating regarding detail shots and the like. Pictures turn out quite grainy and just very unpleasant to look at; almost as though I didn’t detail it at all, which is really quite upsetting honestly. Especially when you spend so many hours on something and you’re very proud of it, wanting to show off all the details you put into it. Another pet peeve is how Instagram is extremely demanding of your time. Not everyone likes to or can be active online so much, and it seems purposely designed (obviously) to make sure you log in and post everyday; otherwise your views and page visits go down. I don’t often finish a lot of my art in one day, it can take days or weeks and I struggle to get it seen when I post it as well; probably because of whatever algorithm you guys are using. Please take into consideration the people who can’t be online all day everyday and make some compromises. But, most of all, please fix the photo quality. I’m not the only one complaining about it.

really good app 👍👍. so I think this app is really well made. 5 stars, however the story drafts disappear. If this could be changed that would be amazing. Also on someone’s profile it has a list of your mutual friends who follow them which is annoying because it takes away from their profiles image. For example you can’t see the posts and you have to scroll down. Another thing is that everyone is getting hacked and I’m worried that I’ll be next. Like they are having to make new accounts because the hackers are controlling their previous account and tricking people into buying things and clicking on these links. For example they are saying ‘I spent a long time on this for you’ or ‘ help me please, I’m in trouble’ with a link attached. I know this is not Instagrams fault but if this could be fixed that would be amazing. But anyway I really enjoy this app and haven’t had any dramas or anything wrong with it so far. Just these little things. Really good app 👍👍👍

From a fave to barely useable. I’m a long time IG user, and so many new features are so awful. Lots of ads and thousands of suggested posts (annoying that you have to re-snooze them every month or it takes up the vast bulk of your feed). The obsession with pushing reels is irritating. Seriously, if I wanted TikTok, I’d use TikTok. And recently, if your phone is on silent mode, all stories and reels will still play with volume. There are many reasons why people may put their phones on silent and to have an app override this constantly is really frustrating. The algorithm also doesn’t seem too smart, as I frequently miss posts that I would really like to see. And this is just the basic functionality. When there are issues such as spam accounts impersonating others (myself and many friends have had problems with this over the last 6 months) or posts with sexist/racist etc content, reports generally do NOTHING. There often isn’t even the ability to appeal a decision if something is deemed not to violate ‘community standards’. A pretty poor effort from Meta.

Absolutely horrible. I have been bored during these school holidays and decided to make a fan page on a social media site. I was looking for colourings and found one. As i was putting it together, I realized that I needed Instagram for it. I have never once in my life used instagram and I don’t think i’ll use it again. I began creating my account and ended up at typing in my birthday and it didn’t let me. It kept reseting everytime i typed it in. I eventually gave up and clicked skip ( or next i cant remember ). I was now at the user part when it glitched and wouldn’t let me type, then kicked me out. 4 times i had to do this. 4! I tried one more time and got in. Clicked plus, and ha no idea what to do. It stopped letting me tap and type fir a little bit. I looked up how to add the effects and i was about to click effects when it said my account was being deactivated? It said i was banned unless I gave a good reason why. And for me in Australia, its the 19th of January and it said my account was deactivated yesterday?? ( 18th ). Another 4 times it said that. I tried one last time, but it was glitching so I uninstalled the app. It gave me no introduction at all! Never using it again.

Really poor app. Instagram used to be a great platform to widen your friends across the world and enjoy a great range of pictures of all genres. In the past 2 to 3 years it’s become just the worst app I’ve ever used in relation to trying to grow friends. As soon as you get a certain amount it then tends to reduce it by a large chunk and I’ve seen this happen to countless other profiles. It can’t be a coincidence that Instagram reduces the numbers. It also slaps restrictions for the most ridiculous things such as “ going to fast” to “ unfriending or adding” to many friends in a short space of time. You should be able to use your profile how ever you see fit. It’s become to controlling and to quick to ban or restrict people for the stupidest issues. I know of another better and less strict platform came out, millions would ditch Instagram due to this as it has lost its appeal of a easy to use and fun platform.

I like it but we could make it better. I have always loved the idea of Instagram. I think the concept, what they have done in the social media sphere is amazing but I think there are ways we could make social media “healthier”. It can be so hard for some people to have social media and not get sucked into a never ending rabbit hole. The results can be that people end up not living their life because hours and hours are spent scrolling, addicted to their phone. I understand social media is a large part of how a lot of people make their income but for many, it is a way to keep in touch with friends and search up new friends, be artistic, post life updates, message and so on. I would love to see a function on Instagram in the settings that allows the user (or even parents of kids) to disable the discovery page function. I think it would prevent the endless scrolling you can get sucked into. It would still allow you to search for accounts and friends but you’re not exposed to everything and everyone the algorithm sends your way. I think it would make a huge difference to some users experience on the app, in a positive way. I know it’s something I would benefit from personally and not cause me to delete the app all the time.

Used to be good. Instagram used to be great. Now it’s so full of advertising that they show you over and over and over until you finally get so frustrated that you press the “hide ad” button, but then they keep showing it to you anyway. It was so amazing as a social media platform but unfortunately they now limit posts from accounts you’re following and force through advertising content on a regular basis. Instagram also monitors every site you visit online and listens in to your conversations and hammers you with ads you’ve visited, or similar product. Mention hot water systems? You’re getting 30 ads per day for providers in your area. Most of which don’t seem legit. Talk About home insurance? Guess what’s filling your feed for the next week or so. Your teenage daughter uses your laptop to check out some clothing online? Your algorithm is screwed for the next few weeks. Back in the old days, good content got rewarded. Now it’s mostly just those that are willing to pay to be seen. Instagram, if you see this, please realize that you’re killing your platform. Thanks. Michael.

#makeinstagramgreatagain. The worst update of all time 2022. For an app that started out as a place to share and view PICTURES, they sure have strayed. I understand the creators want to evolve and focus on videos/reels - but give some attention to the original idea of picture sharing. For all the people that joined the app for that very reason. I don’t understand why companies can’t evolve but stay in their OG lane and be original in their own ways. Just because tiktok is super successful, doesn’t mean you have to change your whole core app to be an exact copy of it. Take the new layout “test” for instance. Focusing on videos - 9:16 frame, when captions are added at the bottom of your post, as you scroll down the feed you lose the bottom quarter of image/video unless you tap into it or zoom. You also notice because of the caption there is a slight grey wash over the entire image ( again unless you zoom or tap into it) which is ridiculous for an app that is based upon “seeing an image you love and connecting with it straight away” … I think it’s a pathetic tiktok dupe update and needs major tweaking to be original

Wrong use of instagram. I continue to be harassed by ONLYFANS offers. One in particular who sends pictures of his penis to me. He has admitted that Instagram is his way to make money. I have tried to report but have never been the opportunity to write a review like this. One of the people is a serial offender and you have deleted his account a number of times. I find this to be very very concerning for young children and underage kids of today’s society. The photos I report are taken down on 50% of the time and the other 50% they are within your community guidelines. These people are using google multiple accounts to insure they make there money and can ask for bank card details or sums of money. This is also a concern for People with one abilities that don’t always have to be underage. I take this opportunity to thank you for reading this if you even do if not I save almost everything to report to TV organisations. save it

I have a few issues tbh. I love this app it is amazing it never let me down until an hour and a half ago. I log out of my account too see if I still have my friends account because he gave it to me ages ago but I don’t and I tried logging back into my account and it said incorrect password even tho it’s correct because I wrote it down I try resetting it in everyway possible and nothing works just comes up with incorrect password I try deleting and reinstalling that didn’t work either I try google and go onto your website and it said youse logged me out because of u usual activity on my account even tho I only have 3 accounts 1 is my private 2nd is my main and 3rd is my boxing acc and I never use my private or boxing account. Thank you for taking your time out of your day for reading but please get my account fixed I haven’t done anything wrong idk how youse can just assume something youse don’t have proof of because I haven’t done anything I am deeply offended I hope youse fix your mistake. My main account is Centralzae so youse can fix it I really appreciate it.

Great for sharing content but terrible for conversation. Instagram is a great platform to share photos and short videos and view content from other users that have different passions and interests. The explore functions work well and the tailored algorithm will ensure that posts you see have some relevance to your personal interests. However, the comment function on Instagram is one of the worst I’ve experienced. There are very view options for formatting a comment and you cannot link anything. I’d you come across a comment chain that is quite long, you can only view 3 comments at a time, so accessing the earliest comments in the chain can be difficult. If you want to see replies to a comment you have made, all of the previous comments will be made inaccessible, and if you want to see previous comments when you have replied, all later responses will be inaccessible. There is also a chance when touching the screen while commenting for it to suddenly close the typing window, losing all progress. The comment system could really use some changes to reduce the frustration, but everything else has been pleasant.

🆘 Please add this feature!!!🖐🚫📢. I’m a fourteen year old girl who loves using instagram, instagram is by far one of the best suitable social media apps for me. This app covers numerous handy and easy to use features that make my use with social media so much better. I’m able to communicate with my family and friends that live far away either by messaging or video calling. As much as I love instagram I would also love and I’m sure others would too if when you go to edit your post that has multiple slides you have the choice of switching around the photos in any order that you prefer even after you have posted it. Many times I have regretted the order that I put my instagram photos and wished I could change them. If this feature was added to Instagram, I believe many others would love and appreciate this feature as much as I would and it most likely would make instagram more enjoyable. Thank you so much for reading 🙂💖

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Bring back chronological format. Being shown what Instagram thinks I want to see takes a huge exploratory aspect away from this app. Go back to your roots Instagram, it worked for a reason.

Too many ads. Too many ads

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want likes. literally give the likes back no one at all like this

Freedom of speech. #tamileelam

w h y. bring back the likes. literally NOBODY asked for this.

Show me the likes!. You took away the ability for me to see how many likes certain posts receive. My daughter has a business account and I log her likes, and her competitors likes in order to help her improve her posts and therefore, her business. I know this is a test right now.....but I’m feeling like it’s just not going to come back. The amount of time I spend on Instagram has declined tenfold. I am no longer excited to go on, and I no longer find it interesting or fun. I know the reasoning behind hiding the likes is to help against children being bullied by their peers...... but you should find a different way to govern that. Block THEIR ability to see number of likes. Or don’t let them be able to have an account until they are 19. Anything else. But don’t punish the rest of us. BRING BACK THE LIKES COUNT!!!

Help please. It was working fine yesterday but today nothing was loading... so after an hour of trying everything to fix it I deleted the app and re-downloaded it but now it won’t even let me log in! I know it is not the wifi because the wifi is working for everything else and I tried the wifi at a friends house and it still won’t work

👎🏻. Unfair censorship to minorities across the platform and too many offensive ads (example: weight loss and cosmetic procedures)

Censorship of Tamil Identity. Instagram should be ashamed for removed the #TamilEelam and #Eelam hashtags. By doing this, they are complicit in the Sri Lankan state’s genocide against Tamils.

BRING BACK THE LIKES IN CANADA. this new experimental update bs in canada is trashhhhh. nobody likes it, wants nor wanted or asked for it!! it’s useless and we can’t even how many likes celebrities got or our friends like what is really the mf point?! AT LEASTTT have it as an option for whoever wants their likes hidden can hide it but the majority DO NOT! FIX IT. don’t be like snapchat were they add useless updates no one asked for 👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽.

Free Palestine. Instagram doesn’t have the right to block and delete the content of Palestinian.

Ruined a great thing. The new layout makes it obvious that the company only cares about making money and not the creators or consumers who liked Instagram for what it uniquely was. This new update takes away what was special about Instagram and replaced it with an embarrassing, desperate attempt to compete with e-commerce stores and other apps. You don’t need to have what everyone else has when you are in your own lane. It’s also very clear that you know people will click the shop button from muscle memory. Really huge slap in the face for all IG users. This is my main app and now I’m working on figuring out what other avenues I can use instead. Really, really disappointed.

Viewing my story. I want to see who has viewed by story beyond 24 hours Please change back!!

Review. I would like to see what my followers like so that I can see maybe I’ll go like it to. I just dislike how this version is it’s not great and pardon my words but it’s S**t....

New update. Please bring likes back

Terrible test/update. So quick to change something that was not broken but never want to fix the actual problems. If people are so insecure that seeing other people’s likes hurt them or puts a lot of pressure on them to post better contents, then add an option for them to turn it off.

Number of likes. Canadian users can’t see number of likes anymore while everyone else in the world can. This is unfair to Canadians. I’m deleting this app and recommend all Canadians do so until this app decides to respect Canadians

A huge bug. There’s this bug in the app that won’t let me open any account asides from one. I’m sure I put in all the information right because I tried to open multiple accounts and it’s the same case it keeps saying “Sorry there was a problem with your request”. I tried uninstalling the app and installing it again multiple times but nothing changed. But when I open the account on another phone it works. Can you please do something to help I’d appreciate it. Thanks

The worst customer service. Have lost faith in trusting Instagram. Instagram has made changes that have mistakenly deactivated thousands of users from accessing their accounts - including mine. They have deactivated for “breaching terms of conditions” without any warning sent to the users or reason. You just get a generic message and are left wondering what you did. Now, the issue is if you ever need help from Instagram, there is NO way to contact their help centre. It is the actual worst. All of their help just loop you to their FAQs but don’t actually provide any help in recovering accounts that were deactivated by Instagram unfairly and without reason. If you check their Twitter posts, read all the comments. Hundreds of users desperate to try to reach Instagram taking to Twitter, or spamming fb to try and get help. And the worst ? NOW REAL hackers and scammers are taking advantage of these desperate people and offering “hacker accounts” to get their accounts back. Charging real money and then gaining access to banking info. Why are these con artists not deactivated for breaching policy?? There is a HUGE error going on, with zero communication from Instagram. No acknowledgement. No timeline on when these users can get their accounts back. So be warned. Delete all third party apps that log in to your account because that is what can trip up their automated system to just disable your account with no warning. It thinks you are using bots automatically and will keep you in the dark for weeks to months. Instagram, I’ve really lost my trust in this platform. Unacceptable lack of customer service and acknowledgement. I hope more people speak up about this.

Censored #tamileelam and #eelam instead of recognizing the genocide.. I am Tamil and it is SO disrespectful for instagram to censor these hashtags (#tamileelam and #eelam) as they are my identity. Eelam represents the Tamils that are oppressed and killed in Sri Lanka. In fact, Tamils in Sri Lanka had a huge protest called Pothuvil to Polikandy (P2P) and many social media platforms stayed quiet and ignored this. These hashtags are used to spread awareness on what is really going on in Sri Lanka. Tamils are killed, raped, striped from their families and theres many more as the list never stops. In addition, this is an ONGOING issue as Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka has only gotten worse. If you still don’t believe us then go ahead and google “What country has the most disappearances?”. So please let me know, why is instagram silencing and ignoring us??

Disappointed. Instagram use to be better I’m disappointed the “following” tab disappeared and no longer there and you cannot see anyone’s recent activity

Hate the new update!!. Bring back the activity/following log!!! What the heck !!!

Reels are the worst. I have never written a review for an app until now. Reels is the WORST addition to an app of all time. You watch 30s of a video, for it to tell you to watch it on reels. You click the button and it RESTARTS without having anyway to speed it up or skip.

Notification problem. Why isn’t my notifications working on my iPhone 10? It only works when I am on the app, I don’t get notifications when I exit the app or when my phone is off.

New update is no bueno.. Can not watch videos since update.. Anybody else having issues? Lags/won’t load tried on wifi and LTE both won’t work. Terrible update.

albums. you should be able to delete a single photo out of an album of multiple photos, while still keeping the others posted

New update. This update didn't do anything. My Instagram stopped working after the sept.5 update and still not working. Like what do bug fixes and improvement do. They should do something not be pointless. You really need to fix this and get Instagram back to normal

Username. I do not like the new update. I prefer seeing usernames than the names that people put on their bio. It looks very unorganized because not everyone put their names in, some are even stylized. If Instagram could gives us a toggle between both, allow for users to choose, that would be great.

:(. Hate that I can’t see what people liked or commented on with this new update. It was how I found some of the best content/people to follow! Please bring back.

New Update. Why would Instagram, a photo sharing app, replace the notification section with a shopping tab????

Racism. Instagram are blocking some hashtags that are showing Israel killing innocent Palestinians

They censor free speech! And silence the oppressed. This app is terrible. They are bias, and side with the oppressors. They have silenced my people who are in the middle of a complete genocide in our home country. And have removed any hashtags to do with our people. #Eelam #TamilEelam #YouWillNotSilenceUs

Change the highlight story update. You guys removed the feature which allowed us to view people who looked at our featured stories and that was a bad idea. Deleting the app. Please change back.

Reels. Why’d you change it? It’s horrible now. I watch half a video to then continue watching it on reels and having restart from the beginning of the video. Who even thought this was a good idea? You should’ve just kept it like IGTV where it continues where it left off

Censorship. SL State oppression of tamils extends to Instagram by censoring indigenous Tamil words such as #TamilEelam. People are going to stop using the app if censorship continues, I’m sure. Good luck, Instagram 🤮

Bring back following activity !. i love using instagram, but in the new update we can no longer view what people we follow like. i use this feature just as much as i use the app, it’s a good way for me to check in on my friends and see what they’ve been enjoying online. please bring this feature back! i know i will not be using the app anywhere near as much now that this feature has been removed.

Can’t log in. I know my username and password. Still can’t. Love the app, but I can’t log in on the app. I know my username and password. I can log in on my computer, safari and everywhere else except this app. I don’t know why. PLEASE FIX THIS

Terrible. This new update is abhorrent. Instagram doesn’t have to do anything to their UI because it functions exactly the way it’s supposed to and yet they replaced notifications with a SHOPPING tab. What an utter joke Instagram. Focus on things that matter

Crashing. Okay so Instagram keeps crashing within about three seconds of me being on it. Sometimes I can get on to it but then I go off and can't get back on. I've tried turning my iPod off and stuff but it doesn't work. I updated it and it still crashes. Please fix this!! Would give it five stars if it weren't for this.

Viva Palestine. Instagram is hiding the truth from what’s happening in Palestine 🇵🇸✌️

I’ve waited months now.... So is Instagram music ever going to be an option for my story or will it forever not be in my region? .... 😒

New layout bad. I’ve used Instagram for YEARS. and this new layout is the worst! I have to go out of my way to access any of my notifications and the shopping tab is on the bottom row? What’s the point? Why did you move the create button to the profile page? I have to take the extra steps and it’s horrible.

Stop trying to turn it into fb.. I havent had facebook since 2011. Started using instagram because it was just pictures, likes and comments making it a more creative outlet. However, facebook has just ruined this app the last few years. Im so sick of reels. The Ads are ridiculous and half of them are spam. Guess I will be deactivating this account too.

Just get Twitter and TikTok. The update has literally just turned Instagram into a store, just get twitter and TikTok and you basically have instagram, Reels are also pointless

Worst update. Ever since ig got bought out by Facebook every update has been worse and worse. Nobody cares anoures reels or shopping. WORST UPDATE.

Stop trying to be TikTok. Please allow users the option to revert back to the previous layout. The latest update makes the app resemble TikTok. If I wanted a video focused social media app, I would use one. I prefer Instagram for picture sharing and a handful of short videos. Please stop forcing users into a reels focused experience. As well, the closed captioning is now difficult to read, as the post caption is often now over top. The videos are a frustrating layout in the home feed, and flipping through videos as opposed to being able to scroll like a webpage is frustrating. Again, if I wanted TikTok, I would use TikTok. Please stop trying to make Instagram something it’s not.

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Exellent. J'adore instagram ! J'aimerai être plus vue

Blocking palestiniens content. That’s not up to instagram to delete those contents! Every people in the the world have the right to publish what the hell he want! So you suppose to stand with human right and help to stop this war by publishing all what happening! Hypocrite!!

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Ad settings don’t work well. I am a person who believes in modesty. As this person I don’t want to be getting ads of women in lingerie and clothing that looks like basically nothing. I tried going to my settings and saying “see less” of lingerie-related and fashion-related stuff, but that stuff is still coming up. It’s awful. I hate it. As a religious person, I would like a better way to keep inappropriate and sexual ads out of my feed. Also a way to limit things like in inappropriate romance comics of people having sex and raunchy depictions of men and women (even if sex scenes are just portrayed in a suggestive way I still don’t want them). I have been reporting these inappropriate comics because they inappropriately objectify the sacred human body and I believe in portraying bodies in a way that is modest and wholesome. Any other advice? Also it is critical to be better at fighting racism. I’ve reported comments with racial slurs like the n-word only for them to get left up like there was nothing wrong. But everything is wrong with those comments. Every person deserves to feel safe on social media and as long as comments with slurs are allowed to remain, people will not feel safe. Please work to take down comments with racial slurs. They are not ok at all, no matter how much they are being “reclaimed.” They are still racist. Please take down comments with racial slurs.

Restrictions. Here’s what I think of Meta in general, though I’m pretty sure a human will never read it: Quote from Zuckerberg…free expression, he said, has always been part of his company’s mission—but sometimes people use their voices to put others in danger. Meta shouldn’t be making so many decisions on speech by itself.” So Meta created an Oversight Board, & Zuckerberg gave that board $150 million dollars to continue it’s work through 2025. I don’t think you can say the oversight board is independent if Zuckerberg paid to create it. If you want some entertainment, go read the bio’s for the current board members & tell me if it’s a diverse group of independent voices, as Zuckerberg claims. It’s clear that the board was created, not for the purpose Zuckerberg claims, but to ensure Meta can continue silencing who they want, & can blame the board if their actions are ever called into question. I see posts/videos CONSTANTLY from people inciting hate & violence, but they’re never taken down or have their accounts restricted. No Democrat politician who openly called on the public to intimidate & harass political opponents, & they weren’t silenced. My grandfather, who served the US military for 30 yrs, said that this country would begin losing it’s freedom if one political ideology ever gained control of the flow of information to the people. He was willing to sacrifice his life for this country, & I’m almost glad that he’s not here to watch it happen.

Just some suggestions. Hi, so I really love Instagram, but it might be nice to have a feature where you can disable your view of the like button (AKA you, as the person posting something, don’t have to see how many people like your post). I struggle with a lot of perfectionism and social anxiety, and so I tend to hold a lot of my personal value in how many likes I get on a post I make. It would just be nice to not have “how many people like this” be the reason I choose or don’t choose to post something, or have it become criteria for my self worth. But, this isn’t to say that people can’t actually “like” my post. They still could, it’s just that I wouldn’t be able to see it. Also, it would be lovely to be able to disable the explore page of Instagram for certain times of the day. I spend hours, and I mean HOURS, on the explore page avoiding and procrastinating my work. I like having the app around on my Home Screen, I just would like to not feel like as soon as I open it I am going to waste the day scrolling. I know the whole point of an app is to have people use it, but I think I would use it in a much healthier way if I had the option to place restrictions for myself within the app.

Hiding story views and comments. Not sure what’s going on with this app or my account, but over the past 48 hours or so I’ve noticed 2 issues: 1) Instagram doesn’t show you the total number of people who viewed your story. I had a follower in my DMs who replied to a story I posted, but when I looked at who viewed my story, this follower didn’t show up in the list of viewers. Also, I had a story posted 10 minutes after the previous story I posted, & the discrepancy in views was large—the story posted 10 minutes later had 60% less views that the story before it. And they were only posted 10 minutes apart. It doesn’t make any sense unless Instagram was intentionally hiding the story from my followers. A story posted 10 minutes later should have about the same number of views as the previous story, not 60% less views. 2) The second issue: I opened up instagram this morning & started scrolling and every time I clicked a post to view the comments it said “no comments” even though there were hundreds / thousands of comments under the posts. I tried deleting & reinstalling the app & it still said “no comments” each time I clicked on a post with hundreds of comments. I reported both issues to Instagram support, but I don’t know if anything actually gets done about it.

great app, some changes would be amazing:). Instagram is a great app that I use on a daily basis, I love it and i’ve had it multiple years, but there are some changes that would make this app go above and beyond that me, and many others, would appreciate. First off, after you post multiple pictures in one post, you should be able to delete some pictures out of the post without having to delete the whole post. This would make so many users more happy because there are countless times when you accidentally post one picture in a group of pictures that you don’t like, but you didn’t realize it in time and you already have many likes and comments so you don’t want to delete the whole post and you just stay stuck on what to do. Also, if you creators made a way to preview certain pictures on a private account that the creator of the account puts up that would be amazing! It’s difficult to tell who some people are sometimes when you are only able see their profile pic so if you were able to select a few pictures from camera roll to put up (no likes or comments involved) it would be a huge help. Thank you creators for the amazing app:) ~Kailee

Instagram Isn’t Improving User Experience. Instagram’s idea of a “good user experience” is not making it a good time. Their great plan to make posts out of chronological order is where it starts, I suppose. It makes no sense that I can only see posts in my feed from people I interact with most—I don’t have time to scroll through my entire feed, but I pretty much only see about 20 of the accounts that I follow, no one outside those because I can’t “interact” with them. How will I interact with these if i cannot even see their posts? Regarding posts—Instagram is supposed to be a photo and video sharing app, and the quality is downright terrible. Photos are grainy, videos never load, the list goes on and on. I’m here to share my art, and seemingly, it gets more and more difficult to reach others of the trade. When I first started in 2015, more people could discover me. Now, no one can and it’s an absolute mess. If Instagram truly wanted to “improve user experience” it would. And it’s not, rather going for select posts the app *thinks* you’ll like. I can like a variety of things, so show them all to me. My experience with Instagram has gone down and it’s no longer enjoyable to use the app because of so many inconsistencies, not to mentions the countless times Instagram’s been down just this past month. Please take a moment to listen to your unhappy users. hard to navigate with the new update.

Fix this please!. I really enjoy using Instagram but I have one issue and that is that when I try to upload more than one photo into one post it crops my photos to the same size as the first one in the post. I want to be able to post all of them into one post and have all of the pictures be the original size. This would be great for photographers like me who go out on photoshoots and want to put up one post with their best photos. It is hard to do that when all of your photos are cropped the exact same way. It should be the same way as Facebook. I am not saying we make Instagram exactly like Facebook because they are two different social medias, but I think it would be nice if we could upload photos on Instagram the same way we can upload them on Facebook. With Facebook you have one post with multiple pictures that are all the original sizes. You can then click on them and look through them individually before exiting and going through the rest of your feed. Instagram should allow us to have the option to upload our photos like this. We should have an option to do this If we have a photography account. I know not everyone would want to upload their photos this way but many would choose to do this.

Annoying features, fine app. Some features I absolutely hate and make me want to delete this app and message somewhere else: the fact that you can continue typing even the the app won’t stop screaming at you that the message is too long, and then it’s hard to delete because the message won’t stop popping up every time you delete a single letter, as well as the app likes to lock you into a word that it’s trying to autofill so you keep having to swipe the “message is too long” message out the way to try to tap the word and delete it, while that message just keeps popping up. Either do not limit message length or put a hard stop on how long it can be. 2) Facebook sharing is automatically on and I don’t need my family seeing things I post since I am trans and not fully out to them. 3) most of the stuff advertised to me is OF creators on threads, I’m tired of seeing instagram advertise thirst traps to me when they banned my second account where I modeled in revealing but NOT PORNOGRAPHIC clothing (probably because my account got brigaded by anti trans people) and a lot of these accounts are actually just basically porn. Other than that it’s a fine app but I definitely wouldn’t say it should be allowed for anyone who’s a minor till they fix the porn and thirst trap issue.

difficulties on the app.. To say i am disappointed is the least. Instagram I have had multiple issues with your app within the last year. First all of my accounts get flagged but i take action, and just when I thought I was good, Nope you take every single account I had. Do you know how manny memories and other important videos, pictures, etc. I felt very hurt by this instagram but then I seen you took a lot of other people platforms as well. As an app developer you should make sure things like this do not happen. Are you guys not doing your job correctly? I’m sure a lot of others feel the same way. Your app is supposed to be where people can showcase memories keep in contact with the world and you just take it away??? I feel disappointed and hurt. You might think i’m being too much but im not. And that’s not all after I made a new account after 5 months of my instagram not working your app is not letting me log in on my phone but lets me log in on my ipad. This is an inconvenience for me. Am I supposed to walk around with a Ipad everywhere I go? I didn’t think so. The point i’m trying to make is that instagram has been around for years and your still having issues such as this? Not a very good look now is it. I didn’t think so. I can’t even get i contact with anyone form your app because you never help or answer at all. But if you read this please fix this issue immediately.

Absolutely horrible. Instagram is an absolute disaster of a platform, and Mark Zuckerberg should be ashamed of what he's turned it into. The company is nothing more than a data-harvesting machine, stealing every ounce of personal information it can get its hands on. From your private messages to your browsing habits, nothing is sacred. The moment you log in, you’ve essentially signed away your privacy, with instagram profiting off of your data in ways most people don’t even understand. Let’s not forget that instagram sells all this data to advertisers, who then bombard you with targeted ads, manipulating your every move. The so-called “privacy settings” are laughable at best—they are intentionally confusing and buried deep within layers of menus, ensuring that most users never even have a chance to protect themselves. Zuckerberg and his team have built an empire on the backs of people’s privacy violations, all for the sake of profit. It's no wonder the platform is a cesspool of misinformation, toxic behavior, and invasive surveillance. Instagram has become more about exploiting its users than providing any kind of meaningful social connection. If you're still using instagram, you're essentially handing over your life for free—while Zuckerberg and his company profit off of it. Do yourself a favor: delete your account and find a platform that values your privacy. Facebook is a data thief, plain and simple.

Instagram is BAD!!!!. Blocking my access to comment on different posts four times in four weeks is not cool! First time was because of making a post on my own IG account from an unfamiliar phone, according to IG (it was MY one and SAME iPhone that I have been using for almost three years, thank you very much!) Second time was because I was being humorous about an adorable rescue pug on a woman’s pug rescue foundation post - I have been following her since 2017 and we never had problems with each other. Zero threats or spamming as IG seemed to accuse me of. Third one, something about the war going on - again, I did not say anything dangerous! And just three days later (as in right now!) Instagram decided to block my access as soon as I commented on someone’s post when she asked us followers for advice on vehicle shopping. Instagram apparently thought I was spamming/soliciting something inappropriately. Really!? My comments are squeaky clean compared with all the horrifying threats I see online about the latest war in the Middle East. Now I understand why people insert asterisks and symbols within their words like crazy. And, yes, I tried to reach Instagram on every avenue to no avail. They don’t care about us clients. If I was able to yield sub-zero or even zero star when asked to rate Instagram, I would!!!! After being an IG user of the very same account for 11 years, Instagram completely lost my trust!

Ban the prompts!. Dear Instagram and To Whom It May Concern, Can you guys please ban the prompts, this whole prompt thing was a bad idea and people are getting out of hand with the things they have to say, it is not funny to be speaking on normalizing topics that can be very harmful for others who have went through that experience with people who have zero understanding for how it could be for one who is a victim of that type of activity. There are certain issues that have effected people physically and mentally, I’ll admit I should’ve never responded to those comments since it did make me an accomplice on my end but I now I learned that it shouldn’t be my issue to be involved in that sort of drama as I know better learning the sort of outcome that comes from a response, causing a huge issue for those that care about me, so please Instagram, do a favor and ban this feature immediately as this was a mistake on your ends and others can be offended by the sort of stupidity that others say that can lead to an outrage of people who have been offended by the comments that we in the prompts. We all need to grow up and stop leading ourselves into topics that can offend others. Please and thank you.

Sticker music error. good night instagram is a good application because you can put music in your stories you can post photos of your past and instagram is a very quiet app and there an error that has been happening to me a few days ago create a company account and create a Facebook page from company and link my account where I had the company link my Facebook account to instagram and when I make a story and put the music sticker I don't get the music I want I get strange music and when I look for the song I don't get the song then I tried to clear the instagram cache memory by removing the app I reinstalled it I changed my company to my personal account and my personal account I have private and then I removed my Facebook account that was linked to instagram and also in Facebook delete permanently my company page and turn off my phone delete the application again i went back to doing a story after i delete all that and i still can't put music i get music that I do not know please I ask you I need you to fix my account please because due to this error I can not do more stories with music, Thank you and good night.

Account gets banned for no reason. Over all the app is a great way to connect with friends online and scroll for hours. But the thing that angers me the most is that my account gets suspended for weeks at a time due to “child nudity and exploitation.” None of those things happened by the way, i appealed many times against it, my account would be back, and a couple weeks later it would be taken down again. This is outraging, because there are actual accounts online that deserve to be taken down for violence or content that has sensitive info or content that is not safe for kids. And it isn’t even labeled as sensitive content. There was an account that i believe is still up simply because it gains attention that posted videos of human remains. That was pretty much all that was on the account by the way, wasn’t taken down or suspended. But my account? Suspended for reasons that are not relevant. Constantly. If this is the filtering that happens on insta, then it’s safe to say that this app is not reliable. It’s good at face value but this problem keeps happening. I’ve even emailed meta help center directly and they haven’t even replied just to say maybe it was a glitch. At least that would be more comforting than knowing nothing at all. It’s making it seem like this is my fault. So yeah, just keep that in mind.

instagram has fell all the way off…..do better.. i’ve been using this app for some years not but like as of recently it actually has gotten terrible to the point where i’ve considered just deleting the app and sticking to tiktok.. They keep banning people for absolutely no reason but won’t ban people who need to be banned. a week or two ago this girl was catfishing as somebody to stalk my boyfriend and when we reported the account and gave instagram the girls account that she was pretending to be they did nothing, instead they went ahead and banned my account of 2 years and banned my new account. MIND YOU my acc been deactivated BY ME this entire summer and i’ve been on my spam so how when i go back to reactivate it it’s banned? for what reason am i banned for when i haven’t even done ANYTHING. that’s stupid and they even banned my friends than and all her accounts than banned my boyfriends other account. this app is really ridiculous and never gets rid of content that ACTUALLY need to be removed but instead bans the people who actually wanted to use their sad excuse for a app. i had so many memories on that account and messages and mutals i CANT get back all for no reason. shame on you instagram give these people their accounts back because it’s not just me. if you go on tiktok and check instagrams official page you will see it’s FLOODED with people who got banned for no reason.

Broken explore with mature content???. Okay.. I have been using instagram since 2012 and while there are some features I have not been a fan of, something I could always fall back on was the explore page. It is supposed to cater to your interests and learn based off of the posts you like and mine HAD been doing exactly that… until 2-3 weeks ago. Right now the ads I see are more engaging than actual Instagram posts and reels I’m seeing on my explore page. That’s a problem. My explore page changed overnight to a page full of videos in foreign languages I don’t speak, crude mature & offensive memes, celebrity and ‘famous’ accounts I have no interest in, weird nail art, slime, etc. etc. A lot of young teens use this account and if I was a parent I would be appalled if Instagram was feeding these foul posts to my teen. Every time I check IG I go to the explore page hoping to see new engaging, informative, wholesome, inspiring posts related to my interests, I am met with disgust as I repeatedly try to refresh the page. I thought I’d wait it out, but it’s been like this for 3 weeks and has not ‘fixed’ itself, despite me engaging in other posts actually related to my interests.. I will note, this is only an issue on one of my accounts, the other accounts explore page works just as it should. Still very frustrating though. Please fix this, it’s making me feel disgusted in the world.

Worst app. Insta has always been about sharing. Sharing your own pictures, and sharing friends or mutual's work too. The newest update makes the latter impossible and tedious. Instead of being able to simply tap the airplane icon next to a post, and then posting it to your story, you have to back out of it, go to your story, set up a new "create" post, and add a reshare sticker. This makes resharing on the fly incredibly annoying. It slows the spread of posts, and is basically discouraging people from sharing others work in the first place. This is detrimental to communities like activists, artists (who you don't seem to care much about anyways), content creators, and more. You are effective killing the main source communication and collaboration within your app. Whether you think videos are the hit new thing or not, you ARE NOT TIKTOK. Stay in your lane, or you'll lose every loyal user. If you're trying to be something completely new, then make a new app, and leave Insta alone! Nobody comes to Instagram expecting TikTok like content, and that will never change no matter how hard you push that type of content. If you actually care about the stability of your user base, and the Insta community as a whole, please return the old resharing. You can keep your Reels, sure, I don't care, but removing the biggest part of your app in hopes that it will make everyone want to only look at Reels content is a terrible idea.

Social Media CAN be a Good Thing. I gave this app five stars because of the hope that I have for it. I think that the way it is currently structure that could be true opportunities for those who don’t know that they’re available. I don’t hope for a saturation, but I indeed hope that those who would have benefited from this at any given time, are able to use this to their ability. Currently, I’m learning that I’m able to somewhat shape my algorithm to not include those things that I don’t want to see. Whether that be because of opinions or morals. I do have huge problems with the way the algorithm decides to filter, information or filter responses from people. Having an algorithm, take care of such a human necessity is a problem in and of itself, but I understand that a platform this large can’t possibly regulate in an accurate way the things that being said that should be regulated. For now, I think the irony of having community standards, and still being able to find videos of blatant things that are against those standards will have to do, but I do believe now that the good that can come from Instagram supersedes the bad.

PLEASE FIX YOUR FILL OUT FORMS ! THEY DONT PROCESS!! I DONT FEEL SAFE. I literally don’t know what to do anymore. Someone’s pretending to be me I try filling in the form attached my ID I even tried through the computer and it’s saying they can’t “process my request” I tried other ways to report it to them by reporting a specific photo cause the profile photo they have of me is the same at the photo they uploaded I sent the report EXPLAINING THAT THEIR FORM ISNT WORKING sending the photo so they can see and my photo to confirm that I’m the one in the photo.... they replied saying they can’t process my report cause I sent too many pictures they ask me to sent a picture of just me holding my Id. The only thing they did was take down the photo the fake account uploaded!!! They literally had one job... like don’t you see my ID has the same name of the account ? And the photo uploaded is the same as the profile picture? That makes no sense. I heard you can get an account deleted if you have about 15 people to report it... that didn’t work either... mind you I don’t even have a personal Instagram anymore I deleted it due to this person trying to do me harm... I have no idea what to do. I already tried reporting the issue “somethings not working” to them and after submitting it little 30 seconds after it says I need to tap to re try uploading my report cause it’s not going through... please can someone help me with this... I feel so unsafe !

I’M UPSET!!!. I’m writing this review because I’ve been using Instagram ever since 2013 and I’m very upset about the new update and features. Instagram has been my favorite app for a very long time but recently I’ve felt super conflicted about whether or not I even enjoy being on the app anymore. I don’t like the fact that posts don’t show up in chronological order anymore, it’s very hard for me to see what my followers post now! I think it’s super inconvenient to have to click on ‘view older posts’ in order to see posts from people that you follow. I’m not sure if anyone else is having this problem but my Instagram stories are messed up as well. People who I personally know and interact with used to be at the top of my viewers list but now my viewers list is in a super random order and random people that I don’t even know or care about are at the top of my viewers list. I feel like I’m stuck in a nightmare or something because I really miss the way that my Instagram used to be set up/ the layout of my Instagram before the update. PLEASE UNDO THE UPDATE AND NEW FEATURES, I’M NOT A FAN! I’m sure a lot of other people agree with my comments and concerns as well!

I am so tired of arbitrary changes. Switching the colors in the story creator to not be in ANY semblance of rainbow order is confusing, let alone a strange choice of things to change. Changing the cropping of posts from square to vertical does NOT make sense - squares allow more of the profile to be shown and are better for displaying a variety of post cropping. Why the HECK would you change it after like a decade of the same?? Lots of people have specifically curated their profiles with square images and you’ve undone years of work for them in an instant. And I am about FED UP with IG changing the location of the “share to story” button every couple weeks (or LITERALLY EVERY DAY, as it was one week). It’s probably the most common place people share when they’re not sending it to particular people. Why in the WORLD would you not put it in a convenient place where people could easily share the post?? I wish I could remember all the other arbitrary changes from over the years but suffice it to say I’m sick of random changes that make it harder to see things, locate things, etc. Plus the recent update shifted some profile stuff around and it breaks all the rules of graphic design. It looks messy and unprofessional. Please, Instagram, I beg you to THINK before you change random things that work perfectly well. Thanks.

new update!!!. you guys need to stop adding unnecessary updates that no one asked for. bring back the circles for the highlight stories. no one wants their highlights on the main grid. we want it accessible in the circles bc the whole purpose for those stories is to NOT be displayed on ur feed. especially for people who don’t post and only have stories up…this is a really obnoxious update. it’s ugly and makes no sense. the one update everyone is asking for that is ACTUALLY necessary would be to add a feature that allows u to see who unfollows you. it makes no sense for you guys to block seeing some users followings on insta but yet make it extremely hard to figure out who unfollowed you without looking at ur own profile. insta also restricts checking peoples profile followings too “often”….even your own if they deem your clicking it to much and a message will show up and freeze your actions for a little while which isn’t helpful. insta allowing people to hide followings is fine but some actions don’t need to be limited. if you guys actually have the best interest of your users at heart then you will take this advice into consideration….i never write reviews but when i saw people posting about the new update i was bothered. so i took this time to speak for everyone and if you think i’m not maybe try looking at what your audience is saying online. thank you for your time.

Promotes posts filled with nudity, trans genderism, crime. The company promotes the posts filled with 1- nudity Young people are shown all nudity, only fans, sex talks etc. This is basically building a weak future generation who is only focused on having 100 sexual partners, or cheating is common etc. Such videos should be removed, as this is impacting at mass level and generation is being spoilt for pure monetization. 2- trans genderism Generations have said that there are 2 genders, science tells that there are 2 genders. But Instagram promotes trans gender theories. Weak minded people are getting influenced into this, and changing their genders, spoiling the natures gift, spoiling the future of humanity existence. Such videos should be removed, as this is impacting at mass level and generation is being spoilt for pure monetization. 3- downtown crimes Crime videos such as shop lifting, car break-ins, car drifting side shows and more are shown on this platform. This is like telling criminals that crimes are very common. This is encouraging weak people to start doing crime, because doing crime is common. Such videos should only be given to the police/law agencies for helping them find criminals. Such videos should be removed, as this is impacting at mass level and generation is being spoilt for pure monetization. These are very basics any intelligent school kid would understand. So keep monetizing aside when it comes to really impact the community in a good way/bad way.

Can’t create and Shadow banned. Ever since I started using reels and my platform grew a bit more my page has had unexplained issues and glitches. First I couldn’t edit my drafts in the app and would have to download them which decreases the quality of your video. Because the quality is now no longer as good the views go down. After this continued it then became so I couldn’t post cover photos to my reels and each time I did give my reels an aesthetically pleasing cover photo Instagram would remove it later. This too was frustrating. Finally the last straw was after posting a reel I began to get likes but even after several refreshes it said the video had 0 views. How can a video have likes with no views? I became so frustrated I deleted the app in order to hopefully refresh and restore it however doing this made things worse. Now my Instagram has for some reason reverted to the old version with the old discovery page and the old menu bar that has no reels viewing option or reels create option. So now I can’t create reels at all why??? I reached out to IG but instead of Recieving help I became shadow banned. Now this app is completely useless as I can no longer create my content for my page and business and I did nothing wrong nor did I violate any guidelines. I do not understand this but I can no longer try to use an app that clearly doesn’t want people like me on it.

Few issues. Dear instagram, I overall really love this app, but as said in the title, i do have a few issues with it. I know it is not just me who is struggling with this issue but many others as-well. Many users on instagram are not able to play 30 second music clips in they're notes and i also struggle with this issue. I have been very patient as i had done everything to try to receive this update. I have un-installed and re-downloaded this app many times, i have signed in and out, i have updated my phone, the app itself, and tried to restart it many times. I have also reported this issue many times in hopes of instagram's feedback. And i have NEVER gotten any response on this problem an not once have seen instagram acknowledge this problem that many people are struggling with. I am also concerned as to why i am able to have this update on my other account and not my mainly used account. Many people have this as-well. I feel very left out and as-well as many other people. This is truly rude on how many of us have to struggle to have no answers onto why we do not have this update that many other people around us already have received. I have grown very impatient as i have waited almost 2 weeks for this issue to be fixed. And yet it is STILL not acknowledged. I would really love if you could fix this problem as soon as possible.

Very disappointed. This is the SECOND time I’ve had this issue. I am not able to repost other stories and I’ve tried EVERY strategy to fix this problem, but it does not seem to work. You would think this problem would be fixed by now because as it has come to my attention it’s not a small group of people suffering from this but instead A LARGE AMOUNT. I love Instagram but this small bug has really irritated me, because reposting and sharing posts to my story is important to me, especially in this time. I’m only 15 and I might sound naive but I can say that I am very, VERY disappointed that the company of Instagram, or whoever fixes these bugs has yet to fix this one. It is a big deal considering it is one of the MAIN features of this app and it can be fixed, I know it. SO, like any other bug, it needs to be fixed NOW!! Before everyone gets angry and starts to put negative ratings on this app. I’m rating this a four star because I have pity on the app itself. If it’s not going to be fixed and eventually ignored, I’ll just delete it and put my rating lower. I know Instagram will see this because there are others who’ve complained and have yet to be responded. Thank you. Stay safe.

Great, but needs some issues fixed.. Instagram as a whole ever since I got it last summer has a been a great experience for me. I’ve been able to connect with my friends faster than I would’ve without it, and it’s a good thing to have when I’m bored and have nothing else to do. However, after having Instagram for many months I have discovered a couple of issues that are driving me nuts. First, on the home page once every so often the several most recent posts get mixed up in a seemingly RANDOM ORDER. I don’t like this at all because the post that gets moved to the top is most likely a post that I don’t want to see again for a while, like today that post is one that I don’t like at all and would rather not see AGAIN, and also because I someone who likes his home page posts to be precisely in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. Second, when an Instagram update comes around, the caption for it should say more than just fixing bugs and issues on Instagram, like what exactly that update is going to do with certain pages on the app and why. Please take the time to deal with these issues that I’ve stated above so that in the near future I’ll be able to confidently give Instagram a FIVE STAR RATING instead of a four star rating.

Terrible Update. This new update has rendered the app essentially unusable. Ever since it was bought by Facebook, the UI has tanked severely, and isn’t user friendly anymore. The new positions of the buttons do not make any sense, the posting mechanism is hidden along with stories and reels, the DM system is 10x worse (trying to swipe out of a conversation can sometimes make you reply to a specific message which is completely unnecessary and unused), and at this point, I see more advertisements than I do my friends posts. The only reason any of these updates happened was because 1. Instagram wanted to make more of a profit by changing out the “notifications” section with “shopping” (a feature that most people don’t use) in order to bump up traffic revenue and 2. They changed out the “new post” button with “reels” as a way to compete with Tiktok. No one wants to do their shopping on Instagram, and if we wanted to use Tiktok, we would. Everyone who has been posting to reels has just been reuploading their Tiktoks, not making any new content purely for reels. Thr worst part about all of this is that if you have multiple accounts, these updates might not be present on all of them. Some of my accounts have the full update, and some haven’t even begun to change, which is extremely confusing. This review is longer than expected, but that just shows how terrible this apps interface has gotten. Don’t update if you can avoid it.

Please stop making unnecessary changes. I am finding it harder to use Instagram with every update. Changes that are being made are unnecessary and feel unnatural to me. I can’t see posts in chronological order, I have “suggestions” on the feed which I go to see ONLY what the people I’m following have been up to. That’s been slightly annoying, but now in the explore feed when I click on one post with the intention to scroll through all the posts suggested to me from various users... instead I’m met with only one users posts, most of which I’m not interested in and it’s annoying to have to go back and click the next picture to see the next meme or what-have-it, causing me to close the app and open FaceBook or Twitter instead as they aren’t making changes that are majorly affecting the way users browse content. I don’t know who instagram has put in charge of these updates, but every single update gets worse. ALSO not to mention, the app will automatically follow accounts that I have either never encountered or had no interest in following. I have never left a review in the AppStore but Instagram used to be my favorite social media outlet and now I’m much more fond of other things due to some of the updates and I think a lot of people might feel this way about the path instagram is taking.

Terrible App. I don't wanna be mean but I have had an issue with your recent update, which allows users to put a 30 second music clip on their notes with that i a haven't even gotten the update to add notes which is such and inconvenience. I have not received this update, although all of my friends have. I have tried to be patient, & I have also tried fixing it. I restarted my phone, I updated my phone, I deleted the app, I logged out of my account, I tried updating the app multiple times, & nothing. No music option on my notes. I don't understand why I am being excluded. I am hurt, & overall shocked that Instagram could exclude someone like this. I would appreciate if you would give me this update. I don't find it nice to be excluding anyone from your updates, & I don't know why you chose me to exclude. But it is unfair, and I would like to receive this update as soon as possible. I think I deserve this. I have since gotten over it, but now I cannot let you exclude me any longer. Please give me this update, I do not deserve this. It's truly disgusting & rude of you to just leave me out. I really want this update, I am so mad you chose to leave me out of this update, out of all of the updates you have made. I love music, & I really would like to put it on my notes. I don't know why you're targeting me like this, but it needs to stop. Please provide me with this update, would love to put music on my notes.

Why would you make it like this?. So usually I’d give Instagram 5 stars but considering that my account was disabled for the dumbest reasons I refuse to give it 5 stars. I had been leaving comments to people being hateful on other peoples posts and just because my comments had curse words or the word ugly in them they would get taken down and I was accused of hate towards others. Now I’m not going to deny my comments weren’t the nicest but I’ve literally gotten death threats from people and they still have their accounts and their comments still exist. So why is my account disabled yet they get to have theirs? Not to mention the ongoing issue of Instagram not having anyway to ACTUALLY help their customers. They don’t have a phone number or an email and they have people rely on the app. I can’t even try to appeal for my account or whatever it is and there’s no Instagram workers or people to help me. So I’m literally stuck here without and Instagram account and the possibility of it just being deleted without me being able to do anything about it. If anybody from Instagram sees this and wants to help that’s be wonderful and if you do see this maybe work on the apps terms because they’re garbage, and work on how customers can reach you cause this is the number one reason people don’t like Instagram. I’ve lost so much stuff all because I said curse words and the word ugly, really?

App never works, dead links that go no where, no app support. As a business owner who uses Instagram to promote my business - I find the app unreliable with tons of glitches and dead links that don’t work, the app is cluttered with options / links that make the user interface look unprofessional and Instagram is slowly making the same mistakes that Facebook made with their Ui design, advertising on Instagram has great results whenever the app works but I constantly have ads rejected for no reason or the app is so glitchy that I can’t login or post ads, I find that Instagram doesn’t know what they want the app to be (reels, stories, igtv, posts… Instagram just needs to make an app that works and quit trying to complicate the user design), app support is non-existent and glitches often keep me from advertising on Instagram for weeks at a time - you would think that Instagram / Facebook/ meta would take ad revenue serious enough to make the app work consistently but this is sadly not what is happening, I don’t understand this whole meta / facebook takeover of the app (facebook has a horrible user interface that is cluttered and scattered between various meta and Facebook links that are confusing to navigate - Instagram is slowly introducing new features in this same manner and is slowly making a simple app complicated for no reason (this is why Tik Tok is having so much success and Facebook / Meta / Instagram is struggling).

Doesn’t listen to your problems, unnecessary frustration. I love Instagram. I always have. It’s a really fun app to use, and I enjoy posting my photos to it. But lately, I’ve had many more complaints than positive notes. To start, Instagram’s inability to listen to the problems that its users have or try to fix them is incredibly frustrating. I was attempting to make a birthday post for a friend of mine; with a large number of photos selected and many tags. It took me well over forty-five minutes to make this post. It told me that my photos couldn’t post and that they would try again when they had a better connection. Naturally, I went to the internet, searching for a solution. I realized, after scrolling fairly far back in Reddit feeds, that this problem has been existing for over four years and Instagram has done nothing to fix it. One of the troubleshoot ideas a Redditor suggested was to log out and back into my account. When I did so, it deleted the post I was attempting to make and all of my drafts. The fact that this app can’t complete a basic function it was made to do- the creators chose the photo and tag limit, not the users- and then deletes the entirety of my work and my drafts is absurd and unwelcome. These problems have been existing for years, but Instagram gives no care. Sick of this.

Going down the drain fast. I’ve had an account for 5 years and in that 5 years I’ve never seen a single bit of support from Instagram for anyone. Artists in particular are constantly brushed to the side to make way for unerage girls shaking their backsides and guys doing stupid parkour tricks that we’ve seen a thousand times. Recently I discovered that they AUTOMATICALLY put a sensitivity control on our accounts. The default is the “limited” option and it limits what “sensitive content” you see. There have been posts made about how to turn this off. Howeverr for some unknown reason, I cannot. I can’t even get an explaination as to why I’m being treated like a child. So I’m conveniently stuck on the limited option with no app update and no way to turn it off. I’m undeniably angry. To further this, Instagram, and Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, has also come out and said they will be turning more into TikTok than focusing on being a picture-sharing platform like they’ve always been. Mosseri posted a video on Twitter explaining this. So artists, once again, are being brushed aside and left in the dust so Instagram can try to be more like TikTok. What I’m trying to say is if you are an artist or you want to share pictures, and you don’t have time to make Reels every single day to keep your head above water, do NOT get Instagram. I’m currently looking for alternatives because I’m sick of it.

Getting worse every day, hardly usable. Instagram has become unusable due to all the annoying changes it has implemented. The ad experience is now really intrusive, placing ads - sometimes multiple in a row - even when you are browsing one particular account’s recent posts (ads used to only be placed in your overall feed). The ad load is so incredibly high now that you very frequently see back to back ads separated by very little user generated content. Auto play for videos has always been annoying and now they’ve implemented auto scrolling through multi-image posts. Why? If I’m interested, I will scroll to see subsequent photos myself. Sometimes the first image is a warning that a news story has graphic content so I opt not to look through the rest, but guess what? Next time I open the app, Instagram forces me to see the second graphic photo that followed the warning because it’s hellbent on making me consume that particular post until I have seen every photo in it. The app is now on a maniacal autopilot. It’s also unnerving that it favors showing you a post from a week ago over something more recent. The algorithm is merely optimizing for eyeballs, as it always has, and does not care one bit about creating a useful or positive experience for users. The problem is now its features are especially irritating and anti-user, only pro-advertiser.

Number of photos per post. I’ve updated to the most recent version of Instagram, but how come I can only post ten photos at a time, versus some users who post longer reels than 1 minute and can post up to 20 photos? It’s like a popularity contest, and if that’s what it is or an algorithm based on views and likes on a page, I don’t like it. When can we have our photos all fit into one landscape and portrait format without zooming in our photos and videos or cropping the photos in a way that does not show the full image without us resizing it before posting? It would be fair for all users to get the option to post 20 photos rather than some and others not. It makes me share less on Instagram because I cannot share more than 20 and am only limited to 10. Please hear our concern regarding this issue and please fix the bug, take away the popularity contest that makes the less view post an algorithm that limits friends and followers the chance to see the post, and most importantly, please make it fair and give all users the option to post 20 photos per post and create reels that are longer than 90 seconds at a time!

Wow Instagram. Wow. Would leave 0stars if I could. I just started a makeup account last week aside from my personal account and literally every other day Instagram blocks me from posting. Either I can’t write a comment one day or the next day I can’t even post my makeup looks. I just spent 26$ to promote my posts and every other day Instagram blocks my account for like breaking the Instagram guidelines but I’m literally just writing “check out my latest post to see how I did this look” I’ve had to wait 2 days to be able to post again because Instagram will just keep blocking me. But spammers are constantly following me and tagging me and they don’t do literally anything about that! But I get blocked for posting my makeup like every day. I’m so disappointed and angry with their constantly bothering me. Nobody emails me or messages me or gives me any explanation and my other account works fine. Might just have to start using Facebook again instead because Instagram is getting worse every single day. I see people posting like half nude photos which are suggestive and nothing happens but me taking pictures of my eye is apparently too much 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

Steadily downhill. Edit: Newest update with ipad layout specifically is trash. Cannot block people, the screen darkens like a pop up will show up but nothing does. Cant access other accounts, the page account’s menu pops up for a slit second then disappears. Deleted and redownloaded and it didn’t help. I’ve been on the app, like many others, for years. It started out simple, and built itself a very great base. It allowed communities to form to an extent, and has been used for so many great purposes. I’ve seen small businesses thrive and artist manage to make themselves the money to keep themselves afloat. Now they keep pushing stupid updates that don’t do anything useful, just constant small changes that upsets people. Then they went full swing with the AI. American users do not get the choice to opt out of having their art, photos, and writing being used to train AI. Just remember, AI doesn’t only take drawn art. It takes photos of you, your children, and anything else you post. Your photos can be used to train AI! That’s a solid invasion of privacy. Especially with the rising concern for deep fakes. The reels aspect is also terribly done. The algorithm is okay, but will rarely actually show you reels from people you follow. You know, the stuff you’ve clearly shown interest in.

People behind instagram are racist. INSTAGRAM IS RACIST!! My family had an on going issue with an ex lover of one my family members. She posted images of our family home, images from a porn site indicating it was the family member, threats, she even went as far as to make a fake obituary of the family member using the present date as the date of death. Most importantly she made very disrespectful comment about our two elderly parent (whom had no clue as they are not on instagram). Myself, friends, and family reported the page and instagrams response was to call the police or block the page. Fast forward I have a friend who is of a different race from myself (take a wild guess what race she is) who currently has a similar situation with an ex friend. Although the harassment isn’t remotely close to what we digested as a family, they were very responsive to her reports about the page. They went as far as to contact what she called the instagram police to investigate the issue. They concluded that it is harassment and they will contact the harasser to request she removes her images from the page. This took all of 24 hours, a huge difference in the time line they took to respond to our harassment reporting and an even bigger step in getting her pictures removed. Was our harassment not as important as hers? Who is behind making the decisions at instagram? Obviously if you are not the right race you will be IGNORED & DISMISSED!

My account being banned for no reason. I am writing this review to express my extreme dissatisfaction with Instagram’s account suspension policies and their complete lack of helpful support. My account, (1aliasm1) was recently suspended for absolutely no discernible reason. I have followed all community guidelines, posted appropriate content, and have never received any prior warnings. Despite this, my account was suddenly suspended, cutting me off from my friends, family, and community. What’s worse, the process for appealing the suspension is a complete joke. I’ve submitted appeals through their automated system multiple times, only to receive generic, unhelpful responses (or no response at all!). There is no way to speak to a real person, no clear explanation of why the suspension occurred, and no transparency in the review process. It feels like my account has been taken hostage with no recourse. This experience has been incredibly frustrating and disheartening. Instagram clearly doesn’t value its users or provide adequate support when issues arise. I am deeply disappointed and would caution anyone considering investing time and effort into building a presence on this platform. You could lose everything with no explanation and no way to get it back. And it the fact that y’all need my ID or birth certificate to maybe give me my acc back is super weird because one I’m still a minor and I don’t even have possession of that stuff

Worst experience ever. Made a great account and was gaining a lot of followers but only ended up having it for 6 days because Instagram banned it. I had 600 hundred followers and was averaging 100 followers gained a day. The first thing they did to my account was make it unable to comment but that was understandable I guess because I was commenting a lot. They then lifted this after one day. I started posting again and realized my hashtags didn’t work because now they shadow banned me because (and I’m guessing) they believed my account was a bot. This got me mad but my account was still thriving so I did not care. They than started deleting some of my post claiming it went against their guidelines which I read later on and saw that it didn’t.i also made a promotion with one of my vids and had no problems and the next time I tried doing it with the same vid They said it went against there ad policy. Yesterday at 9p.m I went to check how many followers I had before I went to sleep and saw that they had banned my account all together with no warnings what so ever. They didn’t give me a chance to do anything. Today I also realized every account on my phone is shadow banned and I cant create any accounts anymore so yea long story short Instagram screwed me over and is the worst social app to date. Thanks a lot EDIT: I’m now logged out of Instagram and can’t sign in to any account or make a new one and I’m not banned on those accounts

New Update. The new update is absolutely annoying. I can’t see recent posts without having to click on older posts from people I follow. And if I don’t click on that it just displays ONE new picture from someone I follow. Every time I get on this app all I see is that. Which at this point has gotten on my nerves. Just that one recent picture which is 7 hours old now. Even if I refresh the page I don’t get an update of recent posts with other people I follow. Before the new update it changes constantly and I know some people that I do follow post on a daily basic. Change the format back. I rather scroll on my feed to see post of people I FOLLOW. Not the stupid suggest posts on my feeds. Change it back to how it was. This is incredibly stupid. It’s more stupid having another button to see older posts on my personal page. Stop putting explore page videos/posts of people I do not follow on the personal page. I get on Instagram multiple times a day and I do use the explore page a lot. Keep the personal page separate from the explore page. That is beyond ridiculous. Why are you changing the format? I don’t want to see suggested posts on my personal page. Change it back to where when I scroll on my personal page, it just displays posts from people I follow. Stop including the explore page on the personal page. KEEP THEM SEPARATE. Literally have a personal page button and an explore page button for a reason. Keep it that way.

Out of control ai bans. I’m making this review for the simple fact that instagram and its owner Meta are ruining people’s lives. I’m sure that we have all heard of the mass ban waves by their ai “technology” making wild and frankly defamatory accusations, and I am one of millions of users and businesses that was hit by this ban that resulted a cross platform ban to Facebook, they do not provide any proof nor reference to the accusations or offense that resulted on getting banned and you are only given a generic explanation of why they ban your account with an option to appeal once! and only once! But unsurprisingly these appeals are not actually reviewed by human beings because appeals are also reviewed by ai and you receive an instant response indicating that you were still found in violation of their community guidelines with again, no proof of your offense. The most frustrating and infuriating thing about all of this situation is that there is no customer service at all unless you pay to be verified and then roll the dice in hopes that you may actually have more than just an automated response. What’s even worse I have not commented on nor posted anything for years, yet I was banned from instagram and therefore my Facebook account which is the only account I care about was also banned with over half my life of memories and friendships gone because this company becomes less and less human.

Stealing information and full of scammers. This app from day one , change my settings on my device and started controlling and downloading information and uploading information in the we hrs when sleeping screen lock mode and quiet mode is on . Also took control when it wanted cpu ,memory,wifi and believe it tried taking home router control , so that leads me to believe hackers are within this app working 24 hrs a day . Bots and many other sneaky things are within people are using this app for. Instagram corporate has no control over their app. The reporting of scammers , sexual content , or things against guidelines as they put it is all a joke . Scammers from the male side to especially women side is hard core professional people running organizations that scammers so good using high end technology you would think it’s real . But really far from real . Within 8 months I never got a video chat or real phone calls from any women on this app I text. All is texting and porn star pictures to say the least . Do yourself favor walk from this like I did. My computer after deleting app runs perfect now . Be care if you use this app and a real person it’s a bad app.

Help. I don't wanna be mean but I have had an issue with your recent update, which allows users to put a 30 second music clip on their notes. I have not received this update, although all of my friends have. I have tried to be patient, & I have also tried fixing it. I restarted my phone, l updated my phone, I deleted the app, I logged out of my account, I tried updating the app multiple times, & nothing. No music option on my notes. I don't understand why I am being excluded. I am hurt, & overall shocked that Instagram could exclude someone like this. I would appreciate if you would give me this update. I don't find it nice to be excluding anyone from your updates, & I don't know why you chose me to exclude. But it is unfair, and I would like to receive this update as soon as possible. I think I deserve this, especially after you never let me use the "Add Yours" stickers as well. I have since gotten over it, but now I cannot let you exclude me any longer. Please give me this update, I do not deserve this. It's truly disgusting & rude of you to just leave me out. I really want this update, I am so mad you chose to leave me out of this update, out of all of the updates you have made. I love music, & I really would like to put it on my notes. I don't know why you're targeting me like this, but it needs to stop. Please provide me with this update, I would love to put music on my notes Thank you

A Threat to Society and the Start of Oligarchic Censorship. Instagram has devolved from a platform for social connection into a surveillance machine that prioritizes profits over privacy. The app doesn't just collect the information you share-it digs into your location, browsing habits, and even offline activities. This invasive data harvesting is not just unethical; it's an outright betrayal of user trust, turning us into products for advertisers rather than participants in a community. What's even more disturbing is Meta’s integration into nearly every aspect of our digital lives. From logging into other services to its endless data sharing, the platform feels more like a monopoly than a social tool. It's a social app—not a government utility-yet it acts like it has authority over how we live online. Adding to this is Meta’s concerning relationship with the U.S. government, including lobbying efforts and questionable dealings like insider trading. These alliances raise serious ethical questions about how much influence Meta wields over public policy and opinion. Even worse, Meta manipulates its users with algorithms designed to push divisive, inflammatory content to keep us scrolling, all while pretending to care about our well-being. The result is a platform that's not just invasive but toxic. Instagram is no longer about connection; it's about exploitation. It's time to seriously consider whether keeping this app is worth the cost of our privacy and autonomy.

Sad. Ive had multiple accounts since 2015 … I used to be addicted to social media … Now that I’m not I can see all the many things wrong with social media and especially this app … The shopping feature is dumb … The moving buttons around is dumb … Having only one account get an update when the other doesn’t, even though it’s the same app on the same phone, is dumb … I also really miss the layout where the profile pic was on the right and the followers number wasn’t big in everyone’s faces and the name and bio were bigger as well … That being said I do like that the views and likes can be hidden etc … The reels try too hard to be tiktok … The messages although I like different themes there aren’t enough interesting ones … The porn bot accounts are annoying .. Real people get their accounts taken down while all the bots just keep popping up … I just wish this app was about sharing pictures and 1 minute videos again … Stories are really extra .. privacy is just unheard of these days … It’s so annoying .. Also the comparing your life to others is very easy to do with this app … Anyway I already deleted it but you guys should too it’s not only annoying but it’s unhealthy. Get your real life back and stop worrying about what others are doing. Find yourself. Get a career. Be happy. Read a book or write one. Go outside. Get a job. Pick up some productive hobbies. Just detach from socials. It’s not real life.

disabled accounts for no reason. Instagram needs to seriously rethink how it handles banning people’s accounts. Too many users are getting permanently removed without clear explanations or warnings. One minute everything is fine, and the next, you're locked out — sometimes for vague reasons like "violating community guidelines," even when no harmful content was posted. The process feels automated and unfair, and it leaves creators, small businesses, and everyday users without a way to defend themselves. What makes it worse is the lack of communication and transparency. Instagram doesn’t give people a real chance to appeal or explain their side. Their help system is slow, unhelpful, and often leads nowhere. It’s frustrating and disheartening when you’ve spent years building a community, only to have it taken away with no proper explanation or support. A platform this big should treat its users with more respect and accountability. Banning should be a last resort, not a first reaction. There needs to be a better review system that involves real human oversight and clearer guidelines. Instagram is supposed to be a space for connection, creativity, and free expression — but right now, it feels like they’re more interested in control than fairness. If this continues, more and more people will start looking for better, more trustworthy platforms. i hatee ts they need to update and upgrade they support!

What Happenedddd-. Instagram is not letting me like anybody’s pictures follow anybody on follow anybody is not letting me do anything really like I can’t even delete one of my accounts without Instagram saying I’m sorry this actually dog anything but I don’t know why I would get blocked because I don’t do anything bad I’m here and I’m really mad at me it’s weird like I don’t get out Instagram is just going to do that like I can’t follow anybody on follow anybody like anybody’s pictures see anybody story I really submitted all bunch reports them and they’re saying oh you will have to see in little bit and I haven’t done anything it’s been happening like this for over two hours and it’s so annoying like the fact I can’t even like some these pictures on follow people or follow people is weird so I’ll check in in a little bit I’ll come back in a couple of hours and see if the problem was fixed or not if it wasn’t I’m just going to delete that I’m really upset with this so instagram can you please fix this problem I can’t do anything anymore and if I continues like this another day I’m deleting it it was a really fun app but now it’s not letting me do anything😡😭

HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!. I am trying so hard to create a small business and I use Instagram to help me build a following. I have spent the entire summer posting and building a following. I posted a reel this morning and I received a message that my account has been deactivated!! There was nothing inappropriate about the post, it was of a handbag. I went through all of the steps to report the problem but nothing is working. This is fraud. My account is 100% legitimate and I have put 100’s of hours into it. I am sitting here in tears because all of my hard work and dedication is gone. I need this to be resolved ASAP. I do not want to have to switch to TIK TOK and learn how to use a whole new forum but if my account is not restored with all of my content that I have spent hundreds of hours and more than $1,000 to create I will have no choice but to abandon Instagram and learn how to use Tik tok only. Please do not force me to do this. I have been a loyal Instagram user for years. PLEASE REACTIVE MY ACCOUNT SHOPPARKERREED!!!!!!!!! 24 hours later all of my hard work is gone. I am devastated. Instagram you should be ASHAMED of yourself. I have paid for hundreds of dollars of ads from your fraudulent vile service. You have crushed my hard work and completed negated all of my hard work this summer. Please restore my account or give me my money back. I have been in tears for 24 hours Instagram do the right thing!!!!!