Save Instagram Posts on Android
This article teaches you how to save any Instagram post using the app's bookmark feature. Bookmarking a post allows you to save other peoples' posts for later, as well as organize them into your own private collections.
Steps
Saving a Post
- Open Instagram. It’s the red, orange, and purple camera icon in the app drawer. You may also be able to find it on your home screen.
- Scroll to the post you want to save. Don’t worry, nobody will know when you’ve saved their post.
- Tap the bookmark icon beneath the post. It’s a black outline of a bookmark—the only icon beneath the post’s bottom-right edge. When tapped, the bookmark will fill with black (instead of an outline). This saves the post.
- To view your saved posts, tap the profile icon (a person’s head and shoulders) at the bottom of the screen, then tap the bookmark icon above your photos.
- You can also organize your saved posts into Instagram collections, viewable only to you. See to learn how.
Organizing Saved Posts
- Open Instagram. It’s the red, orange, and purple camera icon in the app drawer. You may also be able to find it on your home screen.
- Tap the profile icon. It’s the outline of a head and shoulders at the bottom-right corner of the screen.
- Tap the bookmark icon. It’s in the row of icons above your posts. It looks like an outline of a bookmark. This opens a list of all of your saved posts.
- Tap Collections. It’s at the top of the screen.
- Tap Create Collection.
- Type a name for your collection. This should be something that describes the type of posts you’ll be saving here.
- For example, you may create a “Friends” collection to save photos and videos of your friends.
- You may want to create a collection called Photos and another called Videos.
- Tap Next. It’s at the top-right corner of the screen.
- Select saved posts to add to the collection. Tapping a post will add a check mark to its bottom left corner. Tap all of the posts you want to add.
- Tap the blue check mark icon. It’s at the top-right corner of the screen. This saves your new collection, adding any posts you’ve selected. You will now see it on the Collections screen.
- Now that you’ve created your first collection, you can add additional collections by tapping the + at the top-right corner of the screen.
- To save a post directly to a collection, tap and hold the bookmark icon beneath the post, then select a collection (or tap + to create a new collection).
- Move other saved posts into collections. It's easy to do from your list of saved posts. Just tap any post to open it, then long-tap the bookmark icon beneath it. You'll be prompted to select a collection or create a new one.
