Deleting Your Instagram Account? Here’s How to Save Your Pics

Facebook is buying Instagram — and some Instagram users aren’t happy about it.
Whether or not unhappy users will actually follow through with it, they’re tweeting that they’ll delete their Instagram accounts because of the acquisition.

The fear is that in addition to the company, Facebook has acquired all of that location-tagged photo data from Instagram’s users and will use it to target ads at them. Neither company has commented publicly about whether the data will, in fact, be used by Facebook.


If you’re in the camp that’s deleting its Instagram accounts regardless (which you can do through this link), you don’t have to give up your photo library in the process. Here are a few ways to save it:

• Instaport: In two steps, it downloads your entire library onto a single zip file.
• Copygram: The primary function of Copygram is to provide a web interface for Instagram. It also allows you to download your library and pictures from other users’ feeds.
• Instagrid: Thisa web interface for Instagram doesn’t let you download your library. It does, however, provide access to your favorite users’ photo streams without requiring you to have an Instagram account. You can subscribe to emailed updates from specific feeds (provided they use the service) or a weekly digest of both popular and “undiscovered” Instagram users.

Keep in mind that some of these services are running slow today, apparently due to a rush of users.

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