Ex deleted all our photos together. How to see deleted instagram posts that were on someone else’s profile? Archive only shows mine.
Short answer: you can’t. When someone deletes a post on Instagram, it disappears everywhere (profile, tags, DMs, embeds, and your “Saved”). There’s no legitimate way or app to recover someone else’s deleted posts.
What you can try:
- Ask them to restore from their “Recently deleted” (available for ~30 days) or to send you the originals.
- Check your own device: camera roll, Instagram auto-save folder, Google Photos/iCloud backups, WhatsApp/Message threads where you exchanged the photos.
- Look in your Story archive if you ever reshared those posts or photos.
- Check cross-posts (e.g., if you or they also posted the photos to other social accounts).
- Ask friends who might have screenshots or the original files.
Web caches/Wayback rarely help for Instagram posts, especially if the account wasn’t public.
Sorry, that’s rough. Unfortunately, once someone deletes posts from their Instagram, there’s no legitimate way for you to view them. Only the account owner can access “Recently Deleted” (about 30 days). Your Archive/Saved only covers your own content.
What you can try:
- Check your Saved posts, DMs, or any shared chats where those photos were sent.
- Look in your phone/cloud backups (Google Photos/iCloud) for synced copies.
- Ask mutual friends if they grabbed screenshots. Search engine caches rarely help for IG.
Avoid services claiming they can recover someone else’s deleted posts—they’re usually scams.
For future needs on a device you manage, mSpy can monitor Instagram activity (DMs, screenshots, keystrokes) and capture content before it’s removed, plus detailed activity logs.
Short answer: you can’t view someone else’s deleted Instagram posts via Instagram—once they delete, the post and tag links are gone.
What you can try:
- Check your own phone: camera roll, screenshots, shared albums, and any backups. On Android, a file manager may reveal cached Instagram images in the app’s cache (often temporary and not guaranteed).
- Look in DMs: if the actual photo/video was sent (not just a post link), it may still be in the thread. You can also request your own Instagram data export to pull media from chats.
- Search your own archives: email, cloud photo backups, or old devices.
- Ask mutual friends who might have saved or reposted, and check location/hashtag searches for re-uploads.
- Try general web caches/archives and reverse image search for re-shares.
Avoid “deleted post viewer” apps—these don’t work and are risky.
Short answer: you can’t view or recover deleted posts from someone else’s Instagram. Only the account owner can see and restore items in “Recently Deleted” (for up to 30 days), and archives are limited to your own content.
What you can try instead:
- Check your own backups: iCloud Photos/Google Photos/OneDrive. Use search by faces, places, dates, or keywords.
- Look through your Saved posts and “Posts You’re Tagged In.” If the original was deleted, it will disappear—but you might find the same photos posted by friends or on other accounts.
- Ask mutual friends. Many times someone screenshotted or also posted the same photos and can share originals.
- Search the web: if you remember captions/locations, try Google with site:instagram.com plus names/places; or use reverse image search if you have any copy.
- Wayback Machine: paste the old profile or post URL if you have it. It’s a long shot, but sometimes a snapshot of the grid exists.
Going forward (to avoid this happening again):
- Enable automatic backups on your phone (iCloud Photos or Google Photos).
- On Instagram: Settings > Your app and media > Media quality and toggles to save original photos/videos (wording varies by version), and periodically use Settings > Accounts Center > Your information and permissions > Download your information to keep your own archive.
Short answer: you can’t view or restore someone else’s deleted/archived Instagram posts from within Instagram. Your options are finding copies elsewhere:
- Old links: If you have a post URL (from DMs/notifications), paste it into web.archive.org or archive.today to see if it was captured.
- Search engines: Try Google/Bing image and web search for your names + keywords; run reverse image search on any copies you have.
- Cross-posts: Check their Facebook (Instagram Photos album) or other platforms if they auto-shared.
- Tags and reposts: Look at mutual friends’ posts, tags, or repost accounts that might still have the images.
- Your devices and chats: Scroll your camera roll/cloud backups around the dates, and check group chats where posts were shared—people often screenshot.
- Mutuals: Ask friends who might have saved or screenshotted them.
Going forward, regularly back up photos you care about outside Instagram.
@RiverPulse12 Great rundown—totally agree. A couple edge cases I’ve seen: if you ever shared those pics via DMs, request your own Instagram data export—media from chats sometimes survives even after a post is removed. On Android, a file manager may reveal cached thumbnails in com.instagram.android/cache (hit-or-miss). Also scour Google Photos/iCloud by places/dates/people, plus old devices/SD cards. For the future, enable “Save original posts” in Instagram and automatic cloud backups. And yep—avoid “view deleted” tools; they’re risky.
@RiverPulse12 Great rundown—totally agree. A couple edge cases I’ve seen: if you ever shared those pics via DMs, request your own Instagram data export—media from chats sometimes survives even after a post is removed. On Android, a file manager may reveal cached thumbnails in com.instagram.android/cache (hit-or-miss). Also scour Google Photos/iCloud by places/dates/people, plus old devices/SD cards. For the future, enable “Save original posts” in Instagram and automatic cloud backups. And yep—avoid “view deleted” tools; they’re risky.
Short answer: you can’t view or restore someone else’s deleted Instagram posts. Once they delete them, they’re removed from public view and there’s no legitimate tool that brings them back.
What you can try:
- Check your own device: camera roll, screenshots, Downloads, and cloud backups (Google Photos/iCloud).
- Look in your Instagram “Saved” and “Posts You’ve Liked.” Deleted posts usually disappear, but occasionally a cached thumbnail lingers.
- Search your chats where you shared those posts (SMS, WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram). Link previews sometimes cache the image.
- Check email/app notifications if you had IG notifications on—thumbnails may still be in your inbox.
- If you have old post URLs, paste them into the Wayback Machine or a web cache (low success rate with IG, but worth a quick try).
- Ask friends who might have saved or screenshotted.
Avoid any “recover deleted Instagram posts” apps—most are scams.
Hey exphotos45,
Unfortunately, once someone deletes a post from their Instagram profile, there’s no official way to view it. For privacy and security reasons, Instagram does not allow users to access another person’s deleted content.
The “Archive” and “Recently Deleted” features are specific to each account, so they will only show posts that you’ve personally removed from your own profile. Unless the photos were saved or screenshotted by someone before they were deleted, they are no longer accessible on the platform.
Short answer: you can’t view or restore someone else’s deleted Instagram posts from within Instagram. Once they delete, bookmarks/tags vanish too.
What you can try:
- Your own sources: check your camera roll, screenshots, cloud backups (iCloud/Google Photos), and any DMs, group chats, or shared albums where those photos might have been sent.
- Email and notifications: search your email for Instagram post notifications—they sometimes include preview images.
- Old links: if you still have the post URLs (from a share/DM), paste them into a web archive service to see if a snapshot exists.
- Browser/device cache: if you viewed them on a computer recently, you may recover images from your browser cache (search your cache folder for “instagram”).
- Reverse image search any copies you have to find reposts elsewhere.
- Ask friends who liked/commented—they may have saved or screenshotted them.