Instagram web is a great tool to be able to see the activity of our account, be it personal or business. Within the web we can see our complete feed and some more functions. Throughout this article we will teach you how to use Instagram from the web, as you will see that it is very simple, but you will miss an essential function.
Using Instagram from the web is a very useful resource when we are working from a computer, because we can follow all the activity of our account in an easier and more accessible way, but as we have mentioned before, you will miss a key function, you will not be able to upload any content such as photos or videos.
The reason why photos or videos cannot be uploaded comes from the beginning of the app, as the creators of Instagram decided that they wanted an app that could only be used on portable devices such as mobiles and tablets.
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Instagram web, everything you need to know
We have said several times that using Instagram from the web is very useful, so below we will teach you everything you need so that you can use the social network perfectly from your browser version.
The first thing you should do is log in when we have entered your website, then we will see the main screen in which we can divide this screen into several parts:
- Feed: in the Instagram feed we can see all the photos of the people or companies that we follow.
- Menu bar: at the top we can see the menu bar, in which we can see several buttons; main page, Explore tab, direct messages, our account activity, search bar and our profile button.
- Instagram Stories bar: from the Instagram website we can see the stories of the users we follow, also with a new design on PC, seeing the Instagram Stories is very useful.
- Account change button and suggestions: on the right side of the screen we can see our profile image and next to it a link to change accounts quickly in the event that we have 2 or more, and under the photo we can see some suggestions for people to follow.
Now you know how the interface and the areas of Instagram web are, but there is still much to see.
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Interactions with publications
When we are browsing Instagram from the web, we can interact just like when we use it from the app , we can give “like”, we can comment, we can save the publication as a favorite and we can send it through direct messages, follow these steps to find out how:
- To give “I like” we can do it the same way we do it from the app, by pressing the heart button or by clicking twice on the publication.
- To comment you can write directly in the text box or that is below each publication, being able to add text and emojis.
- If you press the icon of the speech bubble, you will see a suggestion of some publications by that same user in case you want to see more content without having to visit their profile.
- The paper plane icon allows us to send that publication through Instagram direct messages , you just have to press it and choose who you want to send it to.
- With the icon of the banner we can save the publication as a favorite .
Another type of interaction that we can do is to configure our Instagram account as well as our profile which we can edit completely and we can even change our profile photo.
Differences between Instagram web and app
Although we can do almost the same thing from the app and from the web version of Instagram there are some differences for which sometimes we will need to use the app and not the web version, the differences are:
- From the web version we will not be able to upload photos, videos, Stories or videos to IGTV.
- In IGTV we can pause the videos by clicking on them if we see them from the web, instead from the app, when clicking on a video we will remove the sound.
- Instagram Shopping was released a few years ago, but it is limited only to the mobile version, so you will not be able to buy or see the products tagged with the shopping cart icon in the web version.
- You will be able to send direct messages as we have mentioned before, but what you will not be able to send is GIF’s, nor will you be able to send ephemeral messages.
Extra trick, upload photos from your computer with the Vivaldi browser
Vivaldi is a web browser that has an interesting function called, web panels, this function allows us to save the websites that have a mobile version and see them as if it were an app.
With this trick we can upload photos and videos to Instagram from our computer and fully use Instagram from the PC without having to depend on the mobile to perform this task, follow these steps to upload a photo to Instagram from Vivaldi:
- The first thing will be to download Vivaldi .
- Then we will enter Instagram and log in.
- Now we will see an icon of a “+” in the left bar of the browser.
- We will have to click on said button and again press it again on the one that appears with said marker.
- Now we will have created the web panel and when clicking on it, a new window will open with the mobile version of Instagram.
- The following steps are the same as if you were to upload a photo from your mobile.
Now that you know all these tricks and how to use Instagram from the web , you can do everything you want with the app, from viewing your full feed to uploading photos with browsers that allow this function.
