Apparently, the ability to download Instagram Information was effected after a shift in the United Kingdom’s presence in the European Union (EU) that has forced various providers including Facebook to move their data centers from Britain to the US.

Having voted to leave the European Union in 2016 by a margin of 52% by British Citizens against a No count of only 48%. Britain chose to exit the EU causing a francus in company partnerships and coalitions. Thus, users have since then wanted to exit Instagram attracting a token of thanks blended in the ability to download their data.

Although your intention may not be deleting your Instagram Account. You may need a copy of your data hosted on the Platform for security or personal reasons.

Well, to download your Instagram data, all you need is direct access to your Instagram account, access to its associated Email, and current password to receive a compressed .Zip file with your data.

Downloading your Instagram Information

1. Log in to your Instagram account, via mobile or Web
2. Go to Your Account Settings
3. Choose Privacy and Security
4. Then Click, Download your Data
5. From the open text box, Enter your Account’s Email Address
6. Then, Enter Your Password, and Click Request Download
7. Done: The Instagram team will compile your data and send it in less than 48hours

Once you submit a request to download your Instagram data, it will be sent to your associated Email Address once compiled by the Instagram team under 48hours. However, you can only submit a request once every 48 hours to download your data.

Either way, Once you receive your Instagram data, you can then choose to clear your account photos and start afresh or simply erase your presence on Instagram.

Nonetheless, with the ability to download your info, the same way you can on Facebook, it means, you can have full control over the data you share online.

“We’re making changes to help people identify if an Instagram account belongs to someone who has passed away. We’ll have more to share on this at a later time.”,confirmed a Instagram Communications personnel on Twitter

The Memoralzation feature has been around for some time and it was first rolled out to Facebook where a user profile with multiple RIP tags is flagged with a ‘Remembering the life of” tag. With Instagram, you are able to see a Remembering flag just above the deceased user’s account name.

In addition to the tag, Instagram will place a default landing page showing that the account you’re browsing is in memorization mode with a notice reading “This account has been memorialized. Memorialized accounts are a place to remember and celebrate someone’s life after they’ve passed away”.

Any memoralized account on Instagram will have no login access, but the user’s photos, videos, and comments will remain intact even when they can’t be listed under Instagram’s explore feed tab.

To memorialize an Instagram account and mark the user as deceased, Instagram’s algorithm can automatically sniff account tags with RIP and in-memory of comments or another user can file an account by filling in a form via https://help.instagram.com/contact/1474899482730688 with proof of death, demise date, and attachments from relevant news sources.

Earlier this week, a social media bot service called Social Captain that helps users grow their follower counts was hacked and a list of usernames and passwords was shared online before a researcher landed on the same entrance.

Well, as per a recent report by TechCrunch, a security researcher tipped them of a Social Captain backdoor that stores user passwords in plain unencrypted text. The researcher further provided a spreadsheet of 10,000 accounts to confirm the vulnerability as per the report.

However, Social Captain came out to confirm that it had blocked the plain vulnerability by preventing direct access to user profiles. With about 70 premium accounts on the spreadsheet shared to Tech Crunch, a reply from the Instagram team was inevitable

We are investigating and will take appropriate action. We strongly encourage people to never give their passwords to someone they don’t know or trust

By An Instagram SpokesPerson

According to the manager security solutions at Synopsys software integrity group Mr. Adam Brown, design flaws contribute to 50% of all software vulnerabilities, and the breach on Social Captain is just another example that will affect users who use the same passwords on multiple sites.

This is especially bad for affected users not just because their Instagram passwords are now breached, but also due to the fact that people commonly reuse passwords which could lead to unauthorized access of additional accounts by extension, Adam added

So, In case you have used any follower growth bot/app that requires direct logins like Social Captain, then its high time you change your account password or revoke access to 3rd party apps to protect your account before hackers help you to publish your next Instagram post.

The new Instagram Checkout feature works in a way that a dominative website like Jumia doesn’t have to redirect users to its website, but instead offer a direct Instagram buy button to receive an order and ship it to a customer’s Insta address. With more than 1 billion active users, Instagram is simply making it possible for Shopping sites to receive and fulfill orders without leaving Instagram.

Instagram’s new check-out feature means online shopping is slowly diverting from the old fashion to a new social media ignited trend where every user can either become a seller or a buyer. For instance, OLX is one mighty buyer to buyer platform that has made online shopping a perfect corner in Africa. And So, Instagram’s Checkout option is just a revamp of this model since there will be no touch restrictions on who can become a seller.

How Instagram’s Checkout option works

Contrary to the old design, each time a user clicks/taps on a product tag/AD, for example, a Galaxy S10 off Jumia’s mobile week post. Instagram displays a” Check out ” button instead of the old fashion ” View on website” option that usually exists on product posts.

As a matter of fact, when you choose Check out, Instagram uses your default payment methods to pay the seller and the product is delivered to your address. Among the accepted forms of payment, Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and Paypal lead the in-development Instagram cart route with a trustworthy touch to the user’s wallet.

Unlike the usual online shopping procedure where a merchant relies on your profile data to serve you with more suggestions and probably a pingback to buy more products. Instagram will be hiding all sorts of private information of the buyer with only a delivery address and payment sent to the seller/merchant.

However, we’re not sure whether mobile money payments will be available on Instagram’s shopping ladder or card payments and PayPal will be the only methods available. But still, a payment method like Airtel Pay or Momo Pay would make things easy for every user to conveniently ride on social media amidst the OTT tax thorns.

Henceforth, Instagram just made it easy for online hustlers to rip big from items being promoted on the platform by receiving cash directly from a user without necessarily having a shopping website.

So, don’t be surprised if your friend embarks on selling products on Instagram and only pay a small service fee to deliver your item with ease. More so, We’re not sure whether this feature will cross to Africa any time soon, but as soon as it does, online shopping will be on another level than ever before.

Instagram is a photo sharing platform that is co-owned by facebook the same way Whatsapp is one of the most downloaded apps for smartphones on both Android and IOS. Now, the latest news spread around Facebook’s domination map this year is that, the social media giant is planning to make Whatsapp, Instagram, and Messenger platforms a single app solution.

If Facebook succeeds in creating 1 joint app, it means you can reply to your Whatsapp messages as an option off Facebook messenger and Instagram for your further social media deeds without leaving the app.

Even when Whatsapp Ads already exist in India, Facebook’s creation of a 1 joint app means it will become a joint venture for ADs and a perfect trip for advertisers targeting users on these platforms. Nonetheless, we are on the Nights watch team waiting to see if Facebook will indeed fulfill its mandate of creating 1 single app for all its apps.

Installing Instagram Lite on your smartphone

Procedure 1

Step 1: Go to the google play store via Desktop or using your smartphone browser

Step 2: Search for Instagram Lite to and select it from the search results

Step 3: Copy the link in your browser and edit it to remove the “hl=en” line

Step 4: Paste the link at the Apk Pure website (on its apps download option) via apkpure.com and hit enter to download

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Procedure 2

Step 1: Head over to the app pure website

Step 2: In the search bar input Instagram Lite

Step 3: Click and download the Lite app from search results displayed

Twitter announced the new feature amidst great improvements to the platform that include ad charges, Facebook on the other hand rolled out new features month after month including the stories function that allows users share snapchat like moments. Rapid feature developments have been adopted by the top social media platforms including Snapchat and Instagram that roll out new features every quarter.

The general twitter community can now utilise the 280 maximised character limit as opposed to the earlier few accounts selection that benefited from the beta feature before public release. Furthermore twitter is planning to extend the tweet limiting to either double in order to compete favorably against Facebook

Instagram previously added the story feature to the app and many users were happy to have this snapchat like feature shipped to the best photo sharing platform,However users will enjoy the seasonal stickers amidst more plans by Instagram to add more exciting features to its app in-order to make the user experience more appeasing since many apps are developed to target the same users and it only remains fight for a slot from these users where Instagram celebrated over 200 million users recently,and with these new stickers Instagram is definitely more exciting.