App Review for Instagram API

Your app must complete App Review before it can request permissions with Advanced Access from any app user and features with Advanced Access are active for all app users.

Development scenarios

The following table contains the possible development scenarios and the corresponding App Review requirements.

Available permissions & features

The permissions and features you can request Advanced Access for are dependent on the login type.

Migrated apps

Start a submission

To submit for App Review, go to the App Dashboard.

1. In the left-side menu under Products, go to Instagram > API setup with Instagram login.
2. Click the chevron in the upper right corner of the Complete app review section.
3. Review the permissions and features you are requesting Advanced Access for and click Continue to app review. You'll be redirected to App Review > Requests in the dashboard.
4. Click the Edit button to trigger the review flow.

Request for App Review

You will see a list of action items that are required. These include the following:

• Confirm that your app can be loaded and tested externally
• Verify that the login button or link is visible in your app and screencast, and adheres to our brand guidelines
• Provide clear use case details and describe step-by-step how a person uses your app Tell us how your use of each permission you have requested follows established usage guidelines
• To request Advanced Access to certain permissions, you need to make at least 1 successful API call

Complete App Settings

Add or upate your app's settings.

Click the Review your app settings to add or update the following:

1. App icon (1024x1024) – The icon for your app
2. Privacy Policy URL – The privacy policy URL that your app users can visit to view your privacy policy
3. App Category – The app category that best represents your app's functionality
4. Business Email – The email, set in your Developer Settings, where App Review results and developer alert emails are sent

Complete App Verification

Provide detailed instructions for Meta app reviwers to log in and test your app.

Click Provide verification details to provide detailed step-by-step instructions, for each platform on which your app is available, for Meta app reviewers so they can log in to your app to test your integration and how you are using each permission and feature.

1. Platform Settings
   • Provide detailed step-by-step instructions for Meta reviewers to log in and test your app on each platform, Android, iOS, Web, and so on, on which your app is available. Be specific about when and how your app uses each permission and feature and how a reviewer can test each usage.
2. Credentials (If applicable)
   • If needed, provide any required test credentials for Meta reviewers to log into your app or website.

NOTE: Web or mobile Web is the only platform that currently supports Instagram API with Instagram Login.

Permission & feature requests

Provide a description for how your app uses a specific permission and include a screencast showing this usage.

Click the arrow icon to the right of each How will your app use question for each permission or feature that you have requested. You will be asked to:

• Describe how your app uses that specific permission or feature
• Upload a screencast showing the end-to-end user experience for that specific permission or feature. The screencast only needs to showcase how your app is using that permission or feature.
• Agree that you will comply with the allowed usage for that permission or feature.
• If a permission or feature is dependent on another permission, you must include this permission in your submission.

Screencast guidance

Completed items

When an item is complete, the circle with a check mark will be filled in.

See Also

See the following documents to learn more about Meta App Review:

• Access Levels
• App Development with Meta
• Best Practices for Meta App Review
• Common Mistakes of App Review submissions
• Meta App Review
• Sample Submissions