This brief guide should mean you now know how to save your own Instagram imagery to your phone, as well as save Instagram content from your friends and other accounts you follow. Once the image has loaded you can right click to download it to your computer as you would a normal photograph on the internet. Paste this URL into another fresh browser tab. jpg link you come to.Ĭopy just the URL text that appears between the two speech, or quotation marks. Scroll down through the code, or use your browser's 'Find' tool, until you see the first. This will bring the page source code up in a separate browser tab. (Note: If you're trying to open without being logged into your own Instagram account, you'll need to right click on the image and select 'Copy Link Address.') Now land near the image and right click your mouse or other input device. To download any image on Instagram open the image in a fresh browser tab. However, there is a slightly sneaky workaround that makes it possible to do it on a desktop browser. How to download Instagram photos using your desktop browserīecause of very valid copyright issues, Instagram does not let you download other users' photos, either on a desktop browser, or on an iOS or Android mobile device. As we've stated already, only you can see what you've saved, and the collections that you've created, and other Instagram users will not know you have saved down their content.