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In Today’s Era, Data Privacy is a matter of concern for everybody and almost everyone has shared their personal data on their Social Media Accounts. In view of this, almost all Social Media Platforms provide various options to its users to safe & secure their profile data. Like, Instagram gives you an option to make your profile private, so that only limited person to whom you allow, can see or access your profile data or regular updates. In spite of this Instagram Settings, Is there any way to ‘View Private Instagram’?

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There may be various reasons that you want to View Private Instagram profiles of anyone, eg. It may be your Girl Friend, Neighbour, Friend, Boss etc. As they have made their Instagram account Private, only their followers can view private Instagram data of their profiles.

So, Are you wondering for any working trick to view anyone private Instagram without following them? Just read this article till the end and get the all possible and working solutions so that you may able to view private Instagram profiles easily.

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How To View Private Instagram Profiles

Before going in the detailed guide, ‘how to view Private Instagram profiles’, let’s see how one can make their Instagram profile Private.

#How to Make Instagram Account Private

To make your Instagram account Private, simply follow the steps given below:-

1. Go to your Instagram Profile.
2. Tap on ‘3 horizontal bar’ menu icon from Top right corner and Tap on ‘Settings’.
3. Just scroll down and Tap the toggle next to ‘Private Account’ option.

Now, only followers of that Private Instagram account can view the photos and posts. If you are not a follower of such Private Instagram profile, then you can’t view their Instagram Photos and Posts.

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#4 Solutions To View Private Instagram  Profiles  [+1 Bonus]

Let’s check out the possible working solutions to View Private Instagram Profiles:

Solution #1: Ask the person Directly – Send a Follow Request [Legitimate Way]

This is the most straightforward and legitimate way to view private Instagram. You can not directly become a follower of any Private Instagram profile.

• Whenever you follow any Private Instagram profile user, then this would go as a Follow Request. That person will get notified about your Follow Request. Now, It depends on that person if they approve your follow request or not. Once your request has been approved, you can view or access their profiles photos, Videos, Story & Posts.

• After sending a Follow Request, you can also send that person a message, with your personal details and how do you know that person and why do you want to follow him. This will be very effective and this will definitely increase your chances to get approve your follow request.

If you get succeed in becoming a follower then you can view all their Instagram photos & posts. This is the most legitimate way, everyone should try it once.

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Solution #2: Create A Fake Instagram Account

If the above method does not work for you, then you can try this way by creating a Fake Instagram Account. However, this is the less legitimate way and we don’t encourage to make Fake Account, but this can be a way to view private Instagram profiles photos and posts.

You may follow some tricks to make your Fake Profile Genuine so that your follow request will get accepted in one go:

• If you know that person whose private profile you want to see, then create a Fake account with the profile details to which that person can relate.
• You can also use Girl’s profile picture, that may give you a plus point.
• Make your Instagram account Private, that makes your profile more genuine in view of any other Private account holder.
• Post some Photos, videos and also update your Instagram Story.
• Once all done, just send a follow request to that person whose private profile you want to see. Also, at the same time, you can send a private message to that person with some greetings so that you may get a reply from that person.

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Solution #3: Borrow other people’s accounts

Surely every young person today has Instagram. So with this, you can take advantage of how to view photos of other people whose Instagram is private without knowing that you are being stalked by the Instagram owner who is being targeted. Especially if your friends have followed the targeted Instagram, it will certainly make it easier to see the photos and videos in your targeted feed without getting caught.

Solution #4: What about Private Instagram Viewer Online Tools?

This is not a solution, but this is an alert for you. If you search on Google, then you will get a lot of such tools that claim to show you any Private Instagram profiles photos and videos. Such as:

• https://privateinstaviewer.com/
• https://viewprivatephotos.com/
• https://privateviewerinsta.com/

But, Do they really work? Are all these tools are genuine? Is it safe to use these online tools?

No, We don’t recommend to use these tools. All of these websites are not trustworthy, as these sites may ask your Instagram Account details or any other private information or ask you to complete a survey. If you give your account details or complete the long survey after that also you will not gonna get anything.

So, If you use these fake online tools, then use at your own risk. We suggest you avoid such fake and spam tools and try only the legitimate way.

BONUS: Using Google Search

Yes, you can see some posts of the Instagram Private profiles using Google Search. By default every Instagram profile is set as Public. So everyone can follow and view their Instagram Post.

When an Instagram profile is Public, then it may get indexed by Google. So, if you are lucky, then you may get posts and photos of that Private Instagram profile on Google also. For this, you must know the Target’s Instagram Username.

If you have a target’s IG Username, then just go to Google and search that IG username. You may get some posts/photos of that Instagram private profile.

Final Conclusion:

Here we have seen, how one can make their Instagram Account Private and If anyone wants to view Private Instagram profiles, then there is not such a short or direct method. You have to ask that person to accept your Follow Request. We have also shared a trick to get accepted your Follow Request with a Fake ID. Also, don’t believe on any online tools that claim to show the Private Instagram Details, as all these are fake websites and not useful for us. That’s It.

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