As long as you’re using one of the three listed browsers. This method will work on any laptop or desktop, regardless of the operating system. Upload the photos of your choice, and when you’re done, click on the tablet and smartphone icon again and close the Inspect panel.If you don’t, refresh the page one more time and it should appear. You should be able to see the “+” (upload) icon too. The page should now show the Instagram layout like the mobile app.Click on it and wait for the Instagram interface to refresh. In the top left corner of that panel, you will see a small icon that looks like a tablet and smartphone. A panel will appear on the right side of the screen or at the bottom.Right-click anywhere on the page and then select “Inspect” from the menu (or “Inspect Element” for Firefox.).
Open the Instagram web portal on your browser.If you want to be notified about future posts in English, please subscribe to our free newsletter. Manual do Usuário is a Brazilian independent tech blog that only publishes original reporting, mostly in Portuguese, but once in a while in English as well. What is new is a much more restrict limit, which doesn’t allow unlogged people to see even one photo or video. Since at least November 2019, viewing of public post is limited when a person not logged scrolls the page a bit - see this report from The Next Web. “This is to help people view photos in Instagram and understand how to have the best experience on the platform, be part of the community, connecting and interacting with people and the things they love”. “If you are not logged in Instagram, you may only see a certain amount of posts on public profiles before being asked to login”, they said. When a computer browser is identified as a mobile phone (Android or iPhone), photos and videos open normally. In all cases, the blockage persisted.Ĭhanging the browser’s “user-agent”, a kind of public identifier that informs sites the type of device that is accessing them, changes Instagram’s behavior. Tests were conducted on Windows and macOS computers, in different Brazilian cities, with mobile and domestic internet connections, in multiple browsers, and with ad-blocking extensions disabled. In Chrome, on a Windows computer, the error occurs. When trying to see something from a public profile on a computer or tablet, they are presented with a login and registration form. Several tests made by Manual do Usuário showed that access to photos and videos by unlogged people is only working on mobile phones. Public profiles, those that don’t have the padlock that restricts content to registered followers, have always been accessible regardless of login. Since at least April 21st, Instagram doesn’t allow unregistered people to view photos and videos from public profiles on computers and tablets. Instagram raised the wall that separates people who do not have an account from those who do.
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