Instagram is one of the most popular photo and video sharing apps for mobile devices. It’s available for iPhone and Android devices, and you can also view posts on your desktop computer on the Instagram website. However, on the desktop site, there isn’t an option to upload photos or videos. For people that don’t have a smartphone or tablet, or who just want the convenience of being able to upload photos and videos to Instagram from their computer, this can be quite annoying. Luckily, we’ve found a solution! There are third party apps available that will allow you to upload photos to your Instagram account from your Mac computer, and today we’re going to show you how to use one of them – Flume.

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Flume is free to download and use – yay! However, you only get a few free uploads. To get unlimited uploads with Flume, upgrade to Flume Pro for a one-time payment of $13.99 (in-app purchase.) It’s a great way to enable Instagram uploading from your Mac computer. If that’s something you’re interested in, it’s worth it.

If you think that’s worth it and want to download Flume to your Mac, check out our instructions below and we’ll show you how.

To download Flume:

Open the App Store on your Mac.
Type “Instagram” into the search bar in the top right corner.
In the search results, click Flume (which should be near the top).
Click Get, then click Install App to begin downloading Flume.
When the download is complete, click Open to start up Flume on your computer.

Now that you have Flume installed on your Mac computer, let’s go over the steps to uploading to Instagram from your computer.

To upload a photo to Instagram from your Mac

1. Download the Flume app to your computer.

Use the instructions above to install the Flume desktop app on your computer.

2. Open the Flume app, and log in to your Instagram account.

Type in the username and password you use for your Instagram account. Once you’ve entered them, click Log In.

3. From the menu at the bottom of the window, click the Upload Button.

Move your cursor over the bottom of the app window to reveal the main menu. On the left side, click the Upload Button.

4. Choose a photo or video to upload.

You can drag and drop a photo or video file into the Flume uploader window, or click in the middle of the window and click Select Photo/Video to browse your computer files.

Once you’ve located the photo or video on your computer, click Open to upload it.

5. Add a caption to your post and/or tag your friends.

Click in the box labelled “Write a caption” and type in a caption for your post.

Click the button that looks like a person to tag your friends.

Click on your photo where you’d like to tag them, then type in your friend’s Instagram username to tag them in your post.

6. Post your photo or video to Instagram.

When you’re all done adding captions and tags, you can post your photo or video to Instagram. Click Post in the bottom right corner to upload it.

That’s it! Those are all the steps to uploading a photo or video to Instagram from your Mac computer. Check out our entire Instagram course for free on TechBoomers if you’re interested in learning more about using it!

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How to upload photos to Instagram from a Mac

So, to make this work, we’ll need to trick Safari into thinking it’s an iPhone. This is the only free option for uploading images from Mac to Instagram. So to get the ball rolling you’ll have to launch your Safari web browser.

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Launch Safari and from the top menu bar, click Safari > Preferences > Advanced
Make sure “Show Develop Menu” in the Menu Bar is enabled
Navigate to the Instagram.com website and log in to your account
From the menu bar, select Develop > User Agent > Safari – iOS 12.1.3 – iPhone (or the latest version of iOS)

That’s it. The page should automatically reload but if it didn’t, a hard refresh (CMD+R) of the page should do the trick. From there, you’ll see the page is loaded in a mobile format. Doing this allows you to upload images to Instagram directly from your Mac.

How to post photos from your Mac to Instagram

If you’re familiar with posting photos from your phone to Instagram, this next part should come easy.

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On the toolbar at the bottom of your Instagram feed, Tap the + icon
Browse for the image you’d like to post, select it and click Choose
Just like the iOS app, you can expand the cropped square image by tapping the arrow icon on the bottom-left of the image preview, and tapping the right icon allows you to rotate the photo
You can also click the Filter tab to browse for, and apply, a filter to your image
Once you’ve edited your photo and are ready to share, click Next
Add a location, caption and/or tags and you’re ready to post to your feed
Tap Share to upload the image

That’s about it. Sharing Instagram stories from you Mac is pretty much the same process it is on the app. If you’ve come this far, then you shouldn’t have any issues uploading stories to your Instagram account.

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This is by far the easiest way to upload photos to Instagram from a Mac. And the best part about all this is that it’s free. I wish I discovered this trick years ago.

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