Anyone who uses Instagram will be painfully aware that it doesn’t have a ‘favourites’ feature that would allow you to easily mark things for future reference. Nor is there a way to save images directly to your phone.
Well in the last few weeks our we’ve been quietly working away on a couple of separate iOS app projects alongside our main SocialSafe app development, and the fruits of these labours are now ready to be enjoyed!
These will be of interest to anyone who uses Instagram on an iOS device, and so we are proud to unveil Likes and Recover for iOS.
Likes [App Store Link] allows you to view a stream of all the Instagrams you have liked, and download any them to your iPhone’s Camera Roll with a single tap. Holding down on an image will take you back to the original on Instagram. It’s as simple as that!
Unlike Twitter, Instagram doesn’t have a ‘Favourites’ feature that allows you to easily mark things for future reference. With Likes you can view all of the photos that you personally liked, without having to scroll back through weeks or months worth of other photos.
All you need to do to get started is download Likes to your iPhone/iPod touch, login through Instagram and the app will show you all of the Instagrams you have liked!
Recover [App Store Link] works in the same way as Likes, but applies to all of your own Instagram photos. So with a single tap you can save any of your photos to your camera roll, or you can press to view that photo – and any comments etc – on Instagram.
By being able to save Instagram photos to your camera roll, you can do things that you simply cannot on Instagram, such as zooming in on photos, or sending the images privately to non-Instagram users via other messaging apps such as WhatsApp, iMessage, WeChat etc.
These apps are both available NOW in the app store, so please download, rate and review them!
I just downloaded “Likes” a few days ago. It worked GREAT! I LOVE this app. However, yesterday there was a bug, perhaps, and it kept telling me that I had to sign back into Instagram. When the app changed screens to send me to sign in to Instagram, it just hung on a blank screen. I deleted the app with the intention of re-downloading it from the app store, but IT’S GONE!! Where did it go??
I’m having the exact same problem.
I am having the same exact problem
We have fixed the bug and are awaiting it to be verified by Apple. We also had to remove the version from the app store that had the bug in it which is why you are not finding it when you search right now. Once the app has been verified by Apple it will be back in the store and ready for you to download again without the sign in bug! It should hopefully only be a few days more before it is available.
Still not working. Tap on See Your Likes on home screen and see that: “{“code”: 403, “error_type”: “OAuthForbiddenException”, “error_message”: “You are not a sandbox user of this client”}”
What need to do?
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