Instagram is a completely visual content platform and videos stay at the core of it. Video format has gained popularity since the introduction of short clips/ reels. Instagram lacks any in-built option meant to download videos to your device. While people do consider using a screen recorder as an option it has its own limitations. They do not allow you quality download of just the content instead capture the entire screen which is not what we are aiming at. In this blog, we have enlisted ways to download any Instagram video to your device.
- Archive the Instagram videos to your collection: The first way that comes to your mind when we think about saving Instagram videos is by archiving them. Instagram allows users to create a collection of their saved photos and videos from other people’s profiles. You can see a ribbon icon below every post and video; simply click on this to save any Instagram video you like to your collection. These videos can later be streamed by navigating to your profile and clicking on the menu icon, now select the “saved” option. Here you can find all your archived videos. It is the easiest way to save any video on the app. but these videos will only be available till the time the owner of the video removes it from Instagram app, making this method a non-reliable
- Download videos using third-party apps: The perfect way to download any Instagram video to your device whether it your own or someone else’s is by using third-party apps. These powerful AI apps easily download any Instagram content to your device. The most highly recommended app for downloading Instagram videos is the iGram These apps work on all devices and operating systems. All you need to do is copy the content link by navigating to the video and pressing the three dots in the upper right corner. Now from the list select “copy URL”. Paste this link in your Instagram video downloader and you have access to download all videos and save them to your device. You do not need to register on these platforms. These apps are completely anonymous so you do not have to worry about the other person knowing you did.
- Save your own Instagram video to your device: It’s not always that we wish to save other users’ video, at times we even need an option to download our own content from Instagram. You can easily do this by using the option of saving to camera toll. Open the Instagram app and navigate to your profile. Now select the video from your page that you want to download. Next click on three dots in the top right corner and click on the option “save to camera roll”, this saves any video from our profile to our gallery.
