5 Quick Ways to Download All Instagram Photos from Any User

Updated Jun 22,2020 | by Cody

Have you ever found that some Instagram user’s photos all amazing? In that case, you may want to find a way to download all Instagram photos from any user. Luckily, there are a few methods that can help you do exactly what you want.

It is also a good practice to download all your Instagram photos as a backup. Only a few clicks, you can download photos from Instagram user online without using any software. You can watch this video below to see the detailed steps. 

No matter what web browser you use, you can use the following method to download all Instagram photos at once.

Step 1. Go to the Instagram user profile page and scroll deep down to load all of his or her photos.

Step 2. Right-click on a blank space and select “Save as…”.

Step 3. Make sure the Save as type is Web Page, Complete and click Save to save all images and the HTML file.

Then all the photos from this Instagram user are saved on your computer. Then you can locate the folder and delete the HTML file to only save the image files. You know Instagram celebrities or influencers always posting lots of wonderful photos to get free followers and likes, that’s why so many followers want to save these photos. Keep reading, more 4 methods will help you make it easier.

You can use Developer Tools of your web browser, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari, to download any photo from Instagram. If you need to download multiple Instagram photos, not all, this method is quite suitable.

Step 1. Go to any Instagram page that you find some photos worth saving.

Step 2. Press F12 to open Developer Tools.

Step 3. Under the Network Tab, select IMG and reload this page.

Step 4. All the image file URL will be listed in the Developer Tools. You can double-click on any of the listed results to open and save it on your computer. 

If the Instagram user has too many photos that you want to download, it may take a long time to scroll down to load all photos, which seems inconvenient. In that case, you can use a Chrome extension to bulk download Instagram photos online in a more flexible way.

Step 1. Install free extension Downloader for Instagram™ for Chrome web browser. 

Step 2. Go to the Instagram user page that you want to download photos from.

Step 3. If the Chrome extension is installed correctly, you will see a Download All button on the top of the page. You can click it to download all Instagram photos from this user or select some of them to download.

This method will download any photos on Instagram based on the URL of each photo. What's more,  you can even direclty download Instagram photos to your iPhone or iPad. To do this, you only need an all-in-one Instagram Photo downloader, IOTransfer. IOTransfer provides a free tool especially for Instagram photo downloading. It can save the photos to your iOS devices connected to PC. Now let's see how to download Instagram photos with IOTransfer, and save photos to iPhone/iPad/iPod.

Part 1 How to Download Instagram Photos with IOTransfer

Step 1. Free download and install IOTransfer on your Windows computer running Windows 7/8/8.1/10.

Step 2. Launch IOTransfer, and click on Tools Tab. Select Instagram Downloader, and click START.

Step 3. Copy the URLs of Instagram photos that you want to download. Open IOTransfer, and the URL will be automatically pasted. Click Fetch to preview the photos. If no problem, just click Download to download them. 

Part 2 How to Transfer Instagram Photos to iOS Devices with IOTransfer

After checking the downloaded Instagram photos, IOTransfer can directly transfer photos to iPhone/iPad. Here we go.

Step 1. Go to the MANAGE tab from the top menu, and select Albums from the left side menu.

Step 2. Click Create to create a new Album to save all the Instagram images.

Step 3. Select the new created Album and click Import to select Instagram photos to transfer to iPhone.

Step 4. After selecting all the photos that you want to transfer, click Open to start the operation.

Instantly, the downloaded Instagram photos will be saved to your iPhone/iPad. Then you can view them in Photos app on the go. Except downloading photos, IOTransfer can also help you download Instagram videos to iPhone directly.

You may use Instagram on a mobile device more often than on desktop. Therefore, I will also show you how to download all photos or a certain number of photos from any user on your iOS device.

To do that, you will need to use the Shortcuts app, developed (acquired) by Apple. You can free download it from AppStore to get started. If you are using iOS 13, you don't need to download it because Apple has made it a stock app. 

Step 1. After you get the Shortcuts app, get this InstaSave shortcut. You need to open this link in Safari to download it.

Step 2. Copy the user profile link from Instagram and run this shortcut.

Step 3. When prompted, select Complete Profile to download all images from this Instagram user.

Step 4. After that, this shortcut will display how many photos this user has posted. You can tap OK to download them all or change the number to download some of them.

Step 5. When it finishes, it will copy all the downloadable links and automatically exit the shortcut. Just run this shortcut again to download all the photos from this user.

Conclusion

If the Instagram user does not have too many photos, the first method is more convenient and fast. For flexiably selecting some of the photos to download, the second is more suitable. If you do not mind adding an extension to your browser, then method three is suitable for all conditions.

All there three methods can help you download all Instagram photos from any user. Which of them are you going to try first? Is there another method that you know is better than these?

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