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Written by Michael Steiner
Fact checked by Mike Druttman
Updated Jul, 2024

Have you ever thought about spying on someone’s Instagram activity? It may sound crazy but in this era where digital socializing is a mainstream way of communication, being able to monitor someone's IG activity can be more than just interesting. It can be crucial.

After all, this is where our kids spend most of their time. This is why I decided to examine the mSpy app and see how well it can monitor Instagram.

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What is mSpy?

mSpy is a popular monitoring app that can be used for various purposes like keeping track of someone’s location or Internet usage. The latter feature makes it a fantastic tool for parents who want to ensure their children are safe on the internet or employers who need to monitor their employees’ productivity levels.

 

How can you use mSpy to monitor Instagram?

In order to keep track of someone’s Instagram activities, you will have to:

  1. Download & Install the App: To start monitoring activities on this social media network, you need to get your preferred subscription package and install the app on the target device.
  2. Accessing Dashboard: Once you log into your mSpy dashboard, you have to go straight to “Social Networks” tab and choose Instagram.
mSpy Instagram messages monitoring
mSpy Instagram messages monitoring

 

What can be monitored?

mSpy offers quite a few tools that enable tracking almost all activities on Instagram.

  • Private Messaging (PM): You can view PM logs with timestamps and content.
  • Stories: It can take screenshots on stories, keep track of viewers as well as log interaction such as likes or comments.
  • Group Chats: Unfortunately, mSpy cannot track group chats directly but they can be recorded by the screen recorder if they are visible during recording.
  • DM Images and Videos: Just like the case with group chat messages, mSpy does not directly access media files from DMs but this is possible with a screen recorder.

 

Where does it fail?

Despite many great features, there are some aspects in which mSpy underperforms when monitoring Instagram:

  • Tracking Followers: Unfortunately, this app cannot do that directly because there are no means for accessing follower lists. However, if the screen recorder is turned on during a recording process, then it can capture it.
  • Media in DMs: Due to the encryption implemented by Instagram, it's not possible to access any media that may be shared through Direct Messages.
  • Deleted Messages and Hidden Stories: Can we see hidden stories or deleted messages? No, because of the restrictions applied by Instagram.

 

My experience

I was impressed by how user-friendly mSpy is and how much it offers when it comes to tracking Instagram usage. The screen recorder especially caught my attention as I think this could be an amazing tool for capturing live interactions on Instagram. On another note, I was disappointed that it's unable to directly track a user's followers, DMs and hidden stories (unless it was captured by the screen recorder).

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