Instagram is the most used application in the world to publish photos and share them online together with Facebook and Snapchat and the best app to follow the privacy of celebrities and celebrities. Compared to Facebook, Instagram has always been just a mobile app, so much so that in the early years it was not even possible to view the photos published by its website.
Today the situation has changed and even if Instagram remains a mobile app, to take photos and publish them on the move, it can also be used from any computer, via a dedicated app or from the website which, a few days ago, gives the possibility to upload and publish photos from PC .
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First of all, remember that Instagram has the official app for Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 .
This application is very similar to the version for iPhone and Android, because it allows you not only to search and browse photos, but also to take new photos via the PC webcam and create stories with lots of stickers and filters.
From the app for Windows 10 you can also send private messages to friends, messages with videos and photos that self-destruct and, of course, publish new content using the camera button.
You can add new people to follow, save the photos we like to keep them and review them whenever you want, manage the profile.
In short, from the Windows 10 app you can do almost anything, except just upload a photo or image that is in the computer memory.
To do that too, then to use Instagram completely, you can instead access the social of the photos through the website, www.instagram.com/ .
If you access the Instagram site using a smartphone, you get almost the same functions as the application, with the possibility of uploading photos from the phone's memory.
By opening the Instagram.com website from a PC, however, to get all the functions of the application for iPhone and Android, you need a little trick to simulate the connection from a smartphone .
If you use Chrome, just press the right mouse button on any part of the Instagram page and then click on Inspect .
In the box that opens you must then click on the mobile phone button in the upper left corner.
At the top, in the drop-down menu, put iPhone 6 and turn the screen with the next button, then reload the page by pressing the refresh button at the top of Chrome to open the Instagram site as if it were displayed on the iPhone.
Since you will now see everything small, you need to enlarge the page view.
To do this, at the top press on the menu the number with the percentage and put 100%, then next on it press on the drop-down menu to set the Responsive view.
At the bottom, put the mouse on the edge of the Inspection box in the center, press and hold to lower it and have more space on the page.
To do this first, you can install an extension for Instagram such as Desktop for Instagram, which opens the app for Android in Chrome on PC to upload photos, search and download photos of others.
In Safari on Mac you can do the same thing by enabling the menu Development on Safari -> Preferences -> Advanced .
from the Development menu, at the top, you can change the User Agent by setting that of Safari on iOS 10> iPhone .
In Microsoft Edge browser, the user agent change can be done by going to the main menu, opening the development tools and then, in the Emulation tab, choosing the smartphone model to simulate visiting the site.
In this version of the site it is easy to upload photos to Instagram, by pressing the camera button in the center to open the window for choosing the image file to be published directly from the computer disk .
Another way to use Instagram from a PC and upload photos is by using a free program for Windows and Mac PC called Gramblr, very convenient and simple to use, which allows you to publish photos and images from your computer and also to apply filters, captions and changes before publishing them.
