How to Use Instagram on Your Apple Watch?

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Instagram, the most popular social media application, is widely used by millions of users from all around the world, and accessing the app on your Apple smartwatch can be more convenient and fun at the same time. Although there is no such facility to use Instagram on your Apple Watch, you can use the app on your smartwatch.

As Instagram is a great companion for sharing several events with our friends and family, similarly, Apple Watch is for iPhone users. Offering great facilities and interesting features, Apple Watch lacks an official Instagram app. However, we have provided you with a way to use Instagram on your Apple Watch.

How to get and use the Instagram app on your Apple Watch?

As mentioned earlier in the article, you will not find any official Instagram application on the Apple Watch. Still, you can access the app on your Apple Watch. For this, you need to access the third-party application, the Lens app. Through the Lens app, you can log in to your Instagram account. The steps are mentioned below:

Install the Lens for Watch app on your iPhone through the App Store.
Open the Lens app, and select Login to Instagram.
You will receive a notification which says that Lens is not installed on the Watch.
Click on Ok.

On your iPhone,

Open the Apple Watch app.
Click on Lens under the My Watch menu.
Turn the Show app on the Apple Watch toggle.

Now, open the Lens app on your iPhone.

On your Apple Watch:

Open the Lens app.
Here, you will get various options such as home, profile, search, direct message, activity, explore, and more.

Additionally, Instagram offers various interesting features. You can share your photos and videos, search for the people you might know, explore through people and accounts, shop through various Insta-stores, share photos and videos on your story, create broadcast channels and join the channel of your favorite artist, chat with your friends, and more.