I am using a Mac and wanted to have an option to post on Instagram via my Mac.
I have two Instagram accounts and am confused why I have different icons for each of them?
Any help would be much appreciated.
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As far as I know, you can only post on Instagram using a mobile device.
You cannot use a desktop browser.
I use websites to post from a computer.
You can connect 2 of your your social media and save drafts, plan your posts or post them immediately. I use Hootsuit, cause it’s so far the best in free mode.
Hootsuite sounds great. But it’s only free for 30 days :(.
Thank you for the advice though.
You can post from your computer too. On one of my Insta account, I can so I don’t understand why the other one won’t let me. Strange.
I’ve never been able to post from a PC only my phone.
I did see recently that Instagram is slowly rolling out a feature for Mac and PC to allow this. But, only to a very few.
I’ve also seen a few so called ways of “tricking” your PC into thinking it’s a mobile device. That has never worked either LOL.
So I guess if you can post from your desktop to IG you’ve been lucky. No one I know has that ability. Hopefully that’s going to change though 
And here I thought Instagram looked at my birthday and said, “Nope, too old.” click.
(Can’t sign up on a laptop, IOW.)
It’s possible to post directly from a desktop browser (Mac or Windows), but it involves setting up the browser to emulate a mobile device. This tricks Instagram into thinking it has a mobile phone accessing their site. This isn’t hard to do once you know how.
This is pretty much how social media managers do it when working on a desktop machine. I used to need to do it this way when managing the social media accounts of the college where I worked for a few months.
Just looked up a how-to reference…
As for the subject the Noortje was asking about, I don’t have a clue. Sorry.
^^^ That’s one of the tricks I was referring to and has never worked with my set up. In theory it works with TikTok as well. And again .. no go for my system. It just makes it smaller but doesn’t add any of the mobile options.
Possible.
I believe it’s because Instagram want you to post when out and about.
Not say at a computer.
There is a free version somewhere. You can get there via google.
Else its only for the Dutch version, sorry.
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The ability to upload from the PC that I mentioned has been “rolled out” to me. So I’m sure others have it now as well. Check and see if you are able to upload easily now. I just tried it from my desktop and it worked fine.
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