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Instagram Users Will Be Ale to Upload Photos and Videos via Desktop from This Week

Finally, Instagram has announced that it’s adding photos and video posting functionality from the desktop version of the social platform as of October 21st. This way, it’ll provide a more centralized way for social media managers to maintain their Instagram presence.

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The process, which will facilitate the posting of photos and videos of less than one minute in length, will not include Reels or Stories uploaded at this stage.

However, it’ll make it somehow easier for social media managers to stay across their diverse posts and apps, and this is by providing a way to upload content for each social platform from one place – so you won’t have to keep saving photos in different ways to then upload from your phone, and so on…

Moreover, as we know that the Instagram’s desktop functionality was being tested for a while, with an initial public test of desktop uploads launched back in June.

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Hence, selected IG users have had access to the option for a few months, anyhow, now all IG users, all over the world, will be given access, adding another consideration to your process.

As mentioned, you can upload IG posts from the desktop, by using the device selector in Inspector mode on the website.

If you switch to a mobile view of the Instagram.com website, you can utilize mobile functions on the desktop, so there have been ways to do this for a while.

Talking more about this, this will improve the process, making it a more combined, official system, which, again, could be a big improvement for social media managers who are looking to streamline their workflow, and publish edited visuals and graphics within other apps easily.

Talking more About Instagram’s desktop functionality, Instagram’s been building it over time. For instance, last year, it added the capacity to view live streams from the desktop version of the app, on the other hand, it’s also improved the Stories viewing experience on PC.

For sure, Instagram’s desktop functionality will attract more users and will make more users use the platform because they can access its functions wherever they want.

The updated Instagram.com upload options will be available from this week.

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