Instagram, here is the tool that allows you to download all personal data
The tool to download all the personal data that we have entered on Instagram is finally available to all users registered for the service. Here’s how to do it.
Instagram announced that it would soon publish a method to allow registered users to download all their data, including images, videos and messages. The tool is now available for download, as a result of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that forced Zuckerberg to respond to the American Senate. To report the news was TechCrunch, which has followed the case in the first person since the dawn.
At the time, Instagram had announced that it was developing a new ” data portability tool ” that would be made available ” soon “. Using the tool the user has the possibility to download a copy of what he has shared on the service throughout the time of subscription to the same, and all personal data present. The promise has been kept and for some days, the tool is available to all users, without exception.
How to download all the data of the contents shared on Instagram
” An Instagram spokesperson confirmed that the Data Download tool is currently accessible to everyone on the web, ” reads the article published by the source, the tool is not yet available on clients for mobile operating systems, then iOS and Android. The tool will probably be distributed over the next few days and, to download all the contents. You will have to access Instagram necessarily from a web browser through a desktop system.
The steps to do this are very simple: logging in you need to access your personal page (icon with stylized little man at the top right), and then to Settings (icon with the gear), then select Privacy and security. Scrolling down you can see the item Download data, and press on Request download. At this point, you must enter a correct e-mail and select Next, and then enter the password of your account.
Why the e-mail? As you read in the page contents will be sent as a link within the e-mail address entered during the request phase. Here is the full message:
” We will send you by e-mail a link to a file containing your photos, your comments, your profile information and more. We only work on a request of your account at a time and could take up to 48 hours to collect this data and send it to us. ”
