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Instagram doesn’t have a Mac version of its app available to download, as you'll discover if you search for Instagram in the App Store. If you try to download the app from iTunes by clicking Get on the Instagram app page, you’ll see the Get button change to Downloading for a few seconds, and then the button will change back to Get.

The only way you can access Instagram is on its website. And if you use a web browser other than Safari, you’ll only be able to view, like, and comment on photos and videos. Fortunately, you can bamboozle the Instagram website into thinking you’re accessing the website on the iPhone so you can upload photos.

You can only upload photos from your Mac from the bamboozled Instagram website. You can’t take photos, shoot videos, or upload videos.

An article by Lewis Painter on the Macworld UK website (www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/instagram-for-mac-3641569/) tells you how to do this. But rather than make you go to the website for this information, we tell you how here:

1 Open Safari.

2 Choose Safari ⇒ Preferences or press Command+, (comma).

3 If the Advanced tab isn’t displayed in the dialog box, click the Advanced icon.

4 Select the Show Develop Menu in Menu Bar check box, shown at the bottom of Figure 1-3.FIGURE 1-3: Display the Develop menu in the Safari menu bar by selecting the check box at the bottom.

5 Close the window.The Develop option now appears in the menu bar.

6 Click Develop, move the mouse pointer over User Agent, and then click Safari—iOS 13.1.3—iPhone in the side menu. Apple is always improving its iOS, so the version in the side menu will be newer than 13.1.3 by the time you read this.

7 Open the Instagram website and log in.The Instagram home screen appears, as shown in Figure 1-4.FIGURE 1-4: To upload a photo, click the plus icon.

8 Click the plus icon, at the bottom of the screen.The File window opens so you can navigate to your desired folder and add photo(s) to your Instagram profile.

If you click the Use the App link (at the bottom of the screen, as shown in Figure 1-4), Safari will just refresh the page and ask if you want to open the App Store. Close the dialog box by clicking Cancel and close the Use the App link by clicking the X to the right of the link.

Alas and alack, after you upload your photos, you’ll find that the photo-editing options in Safari are more limited than those in the iPhone app. (And remember that you can’t upload videos to Instagram on Safari.)

If you'd rather upload photos to Instagram by using an app, check out the two apps that the Instagram website lists: Flume and Uplet. A discussion of third-party apps is beyond the scope of this book, so please visit the Instagram website for that information.

Now that you have Instagram doing your bidding on your Mac, start using Instagram by moving ahead to the “Starting to Gram Instantly” section.