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Just the reports
Choose “Some of your information”, then tick only “Followers and following”.
What your reports and Cleanup need, and nothing else. It makes the smallest file.
Guide
How to download your Instagram data
Instagram will make you a copy of your data, for free. UNF reads that copy to build your reports. This guide shows how to ask for it, which boxes to tick, and what each one gives you in UNF.
- Cost
- Free, from Instagram
- You sign in to
- Instagram, not UNF
- Read on
- Your iPhone
- Ready
- When Instagram emails you
What an export is
A copy of your Instagram data that Instagram makes for you.
Instagram makes it, for free
An export is a copy of your Instagram data. Instagram makes it for you when you ask. It costs nothing and changes nothing on your account.
You sign in to Instagram, not UNF
You ask for the file on Instagram’s own website, signed in to Instagram. UNF never sees your password and never signs in as you.
UNF reads it on your phone
You choose the file in UNF, and UNF reads it on your iPhone. The file stays there. For your reports, UNF uploads only the usernames in your followers and following lists, after you confirm.
Instagram decides when it’s ready
Instagram emails you when the file is ready. Only Instagram decides how long that takes.
Everything, or just the reports
Instagram asks what to put in the file. Either answer works with UNF.
Everything
Choose “All available information”, then set Format to JSON.
This works too. UNF reads the parts it needs and skips the rest. The file is much bigger.
What each box unlocks
For anyone picking boxes by hand on Instagram’s list. Some of these features are part of UNF Pro.
- Followers and following
- Your reports: mutuals, the accounts that don’t follow you back, and who unfollowed you between two exports.
- Cleanup, which takes you through the accounts that don’t follow you back, one at a time.
- Personal information
- Optional. If it is in the file, UNF checks the username in it to make sure the file belongs to the account you picked.
- Everything else
- Optional. UNF doesn’t read it.
The steps, on Instagram’s website
Eight steps in Safari. The same steps as the guide inside UNF.
Open the download page in Safari
Go to accountscenter.instagram.com/info_and_permissions/dyi/ in Safari on your iPhone. Use Safari, not the Instagram app: inside the app, this page can stop with “This page isn’t available right now”.
Log in to Instagram
Safari shows Instagram’s own login page. You are signing in to Instagram, not to UNF, and UNF never sees your password.
Choose Download or transfer information
It is the first option on the page. If you land on Your information and permissions, open Download your information first.
Pick your Instagram account
If several accounts are listed, tick only the one you want UNF to read, then tap Next.
Choose what to include
Choose Some of your information, then tick Followers and following. It is the box your reports need. All available information works too.
Choose Download to device
Not Transfer to destination. The file has to reach your iPhone.
Change Format to JSON
Instagram picks HTML by default. Change Format to JSON, which keeps the date each follow started; HTML still works for the follower reports, without those dates. Set Date range to All time, then tap Create files.
Download the file, then choose it in UNF
Instagram emails you when the file is ready. Open the link in Safari and tap Download. Then open UNF and choose the file. A big export can come in several parts: download every part and choose them all.
After you add the file
An export is one moment. It never updates itself. To see who unfollowed you, add a newer export later, and UNF compares the two.
Read what UNF keeps and what it never collects in the privacy policy, or find more answers on the questions page.
