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Plain-English guides to getting your data export out of the platforms — and turning it into a real archive on your own hard drive.

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twitterdata-exportguide

How to Download Your X (Twitter) Archive — and What's Actually In It

X's archive is genuinely different from Instagram's and TikTok's. Your own media is inside the ZIP. Your likes are a list of ID numbers. Here's how to handle both.

· 4 min read
instagrambackupguide

How to Delete Your Instagram Account (and What You Lose When You Do)

The actual steps to deactivate or delete Instagram, the 30-day window, and the one thing every other guide leaves out — what happens to everything you saved.

· 6 min read
instagramcollectionsguide

Your Instagram Collections, and What Happens to Them When You Download Your Data

Collections are the most organized thing most people have on Instagram. Here's how they survive the data export — and how to get them back as actual folders.

· 4 min read
instagrambackupguide

How to Back Up Your Instagram Account (Photos, Saves and All)

A complete backup of your Instagram — your own photos, everything you saved, everything you liked — onto your own hard drive. No account deletion required.

· 4 min read
instagramdata-exportguide

How to Download Your Instagram Saved Posts (2026 Guide)

A step-by-step guide to getting every post you've saved on Instagram onto your own hard drive — using Instagram's official data export and your own signed-in session.

· 4 min read
tiktokdata-exportguide

How to Download Your TikTok Favorites — All of Them, at Once

TikTok's data export gives you a list of your favorites, not the videos. Here's what's actually in the file, and how to get the actual videos onto your hard drive.

· 4 min read
instagramdata-exportguide

Instagram Data Download — What You Actually Get, and How Long It Takes

What's really inside Instagram's data export, why the links in it expire, how long it takes to arrive, and what to do when it doesn't.

· 4 min read

Disclaimer: UnplugMe is a personal data portability tool intended for archiving your own content from supported platforms. While UnplugMe is designed to retrieve every saved post, liked photo, reel, short, and collection in your data export, actual results may vary. Some content may be unavailable due to expired media links, deleted posts, accounts that have since restricted access, platform rate-limiting, or changes to the platform's data export structure. We make no guarantees about completeness, and we are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Meta, ByteDance, X Corp, or any other platform mentioned on this page.