Instagram guidance

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• Instagram reposts are source sharing, not a retained video backup

  An Instagram repost shares an existing public Reel or feed post with credit to its original poster.

• Instagram video or Reel unavailable to the downloader

  An Instagram post playing in your account does not guarantee that a public downloader can retrieve its media.

• Post captions and movie versions: keep separate change records

  Record descriptive post-text changes separately from media identity, compare actual retained recordings and avoid labeling an old file as a newly verified source version.

• Use an Instagram post link rather than a profile address

  For an Instagram video post, copy the specific /p/ post link and inspect whether it contains a usable video.

• Use the individual Instagram Reel share route

  Copy the link to one Reel and use its /reel/ or /reels/ route. A profile, feed or ordinary post page has a different role.

• Why an Instagram Trial Reel is absent from the usual profile grid

  An Instagram Trial Reel is shared with non-followers first and is kept off the ordinary profile grid until shared more broadly.