You still face severe limitations if you use a standard personal Instagram profile. However, Facebook/Instagram has investigated the requests from each of these platforms in turn for better API access, and most can now post for you – as long as you are using a Business or Creator Instagram profile. Initially, most only provided limited scheduling capabilities, merely reminding you to do your actual posting manually (using a mobile device). Gradually, many of these scheduling tools have added Instagram.
Instagram was one of the later social networks to be catered for by these platforms, mainly because Facebook/Instagram placed severe limitations on the use of their APIs as a fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal. We have written extensively about scheduling posts in our reviews on social media marketing platforms. You will need to remember to go back into your Preferences to change your user agent back to Default, so you can see websites in their desktop version again. This will prompt you to select a photo to upload and begin the process of making an Instagram post. Click on the image with a + inside a square. You will find the same icons at the bottom of the screen that you see in the mobile version. It will now look more like the mobile version of Instagram, rather than the standard desktop version. You can now go to and sign in to your account. Click on this icon, and you will be prompted for a photo to share. This will include the symbol for making a new post (a square with a + inside it). You will probably have to refresh your page at this point, but when it reloads, you should notice icons at the bottom of the mobile view of Instagram. The second-from-left icon allows you to see the page in a mobile view. You will notice a couple of icons in the top left corner of the Inspector Tool. This will bring up the Inspector tool, that will cover up part of your page. You can then right-click anywhere on the page and select Inspect from the resulting right-click menu. This will initially give you the desktop view of the site. When using Chrome, you begin the process by going to as usual. You also can’t make video or carousel posts. Some of the things you will have to do without when using your browser include adding filters to your photos, including multiple images in your posts, tagging someone within your picture, or editing captions after publishing. You are looking at the mobile version of the Instagram website, and that lacks some of the features that you find in the official Instagram apps on your mobile device. Just be aware that changing your browser user agent won’t give you access to all of Instagram's features.
If you can artificially change the "user agent," you can show the mobile version of a site on your desktop browser. Website developers often create different versions of their site for different devices, and browsers use a “user device” setting to know which version of the page they should upload. You can do this by changing the "user agent," which tells a browser what type of device you are using. Arguably the easiest way to upload photos and make posts to Instagram using your desktop browser is to "trick" your browser into thinking that you are using a mobile device.
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