How to link Instagram to VK: link to VKontakte, how to synchronize if it does not link to a contact

Benefits of account synchronization

The Instagram service offers a function for synchronizing your account with similar profiles on other social networks. For his own convenience, a person can link an Instagram profile with an account on Odnoklassniki, VKontakte, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and others. Most often, the need arises precisely in linking Instagram to the VKontakte website. If you understand how to connect Instagram and VKontakte, you will be able to notice the following advantages of synchronization:

A person saves time spent on publishing posts. He won’t have to post the same photo or video separately on each social network. It is enough to publish in one; if the function is activated, it will appear on both resources.
Any publication is duplicated in the linked social network along with the text below it. If this is a post on Instagram, then it will move to VKontakte along with all the tags, hashtags, and emoticons.
It will be much easier for all VK users to find the Instagram profile of the author of the post. You can see the Instagram icon next to the publication date. After clicking on it, a post in this service will open.
Simplified search for friends' accounts. After merging two accounts, the service will automatically offer to follow friends. If someone new registers on VK, users will receive an invitation to subscribe to the Instagram page. This function works similarly to the one that highlights people from your phone's contact list on Instagram.

Summing up

Linking accounts of two social networks in 2021 is easy. This provides the user with many conveniences. All a person needs to do is perform certain manipulations on his Instagram profile, and everything will be reflected in someone else. There is no need to select and import images in your accounts twice. The only thing that is required from the user is to configure the sites on which the picture is displayed. All portals allow the account user and group subscribers to not only add and watch content, but also rate it.

Linking via VKontakte

There are 2 working ways to link your Instagram and VKontakte accounts:

via Insta from a smartphone or PC;
via VKontakte from a computer.

Linking via the VKontakte social network is performed as follows:

Open the “My Page” tab.
Under your avatar, click the “Edit” button.
Find the “Contacts” section, and at the bottom there will be a button “Add instagram.com” with a service icon.
After clicking, a new window appears where you will have to enter your Instagram login information.
If the fields are filled in incorrectly and the password and login are entered correctly, synchronization will occur.

There is another way to get to this profile editing section. Always at the top of the VKontakte page in the upper right corner there is the user’s name and his avatar icon. After clicking on it, a drop-down menu is displayed. In it you can select the “Edit” item. The rest of the steps will be the same.

Linking via Instagram

You need to find out in advance how to link Instagram to VKontakte via phone. Modern people are highly attached to their smartphones. Therefore, PCs and laptops are not used at all to access social networks. They perform all the basic actions of linking and editing a profile through their gadgets. In addition, a computer or laptop may not always be at hand. You can link two accounts via phone only through the Instagram service. To do this, perform the following actions:

open a service for sharing photos and videos on a smartphone;
if necessary, log in to your own profile;
Open the menu on the main page in the upper right corner. It is hidden behind an icon with three horizontal stripes;
it will have a “Settings” section;
Among the proposed options, select “Account” from the list;
in the list that appears, find the item “Linked accounts”, click on it;
This section provides a list of different social networks with which Instagram can be linked. The very first site in it will be the VKontakte site;
after clicking on VK, a new page will open. Enter your phone number or e-mail and password to log in and click the “Login” button;
If the data is entered correctly, Instagram and VKontakte will be synchronized.

The user can easily verify for himself that this action was performed correctly. When he wants to post on Instagram, the profile name will light up on the edit page near VKontakte. To post a post on both social networks, you need to move the slider to the right near VK. It will light up blue. The signature along with marks, geotags, as well as a link to Insta will be published on VKontakte.

If Instagram does not synchronize with VK, perhaps another profile has already been linked to it. You can link only one VKontakte page to it.

Why doesn't Instagram show contacts from my phone when synchronization is enabled?

The massive nature of this dysfunction, which has been actively manifesting itself since approximately September 4, 2021, indicates only one thing - the presence of problems with the functionality of the Instagram application itself and the servers that serve it. That is why a huge number of users experience this error, and no individual actions to correct it can effectively solve it.

Dysfunction may be caused by server problems

Instagram support does not respond in any way to mass requests from users. Therefore, if you decide to contact support because your contacts are not visible in the application even during synchronization, then you should not wait for an answer.

You most likely will not receive an answer from Instagram support on this issue.

What to do and how to fix the problem? Let's look further.

How to disconnect profiles in services

Sometimes it is important for a user to learn not how to connect VK with Instagram, but how to untie the two social networks from each other. It happens that there is simply no need to synchronize them. Therefore they can be separated. This is done in several stages:

First, open an Instagram account, log in if necessary.
Open the menu in the upper right corner, hidden under the icon of three horizontal stripes.
There, find the “Settings” item with a gear icon.
Next, go to the “Accounts” – “Linked Accounts” section. It will display the profiles of all available social networks.
Linked ones will be highlighted in blue. In this case it is VK.
After opening it, you need to select “Cancel connection” and confirm the action.

After this, the accounts will be unlinked. Sometimes the tab continues to display information or the social network is highlighted in blue. You just need to restart the application or reboot your device.

If, after performing these steps, photos continue to be posted on VK from Instagram, then you will have to act differently. And in this case, you can no longer do without using a PC. You can try to unlink the page from the web version of Instagram. This is done in this way:

you need to open the Instagram link, log in;
open the “Edit profile” section;
in the menu on the left, select the “Applications and Sites” section;
there, in the column, find the active ones in the VK list;
Below it there will be a blue “Delete” button that you should click.

You can try to unlink profiles from each other in the same way as synchronizing Instagram with VKontakte. In this case, you will need the web version of VKontakte and a PC. You need to open your profile, find the “Edit” button, then go to the “Contacts” section. There, find the linked account with a recognizable icon and click disconnect for Instagram. After completing these steps, auto-posting on VK will be permanently stopped.

Completely reinstall the Instagram app if your contacts are not showing

We can also recommend completely reinstalling the Instagram application, which will prevent accidental crashes in the program. Go to the applications section on your phone and delete it in the standard way.

Delete your Instagram

After that, reboot your phone, download and install the latest version of Instagram (Android, iOS) on it.

Install the latest version of the Instagram application

All you have to do is launch the application and activate synchronization.

Connect your contact list

Next, check if the error where Instagram does not display contacts of people from the memory of your mobile device has been fixed.

How to link a VK group and an Instagram account

Some users want to know how to link Instagram with a contact. But not with a personal page, but with a public page. This option is not provided in the service. But there are separate applications that provide this opportunity. Most of them are paid. Among them there are those that provide the opportunity to use the service for free for the first time. Such a third-party application is onemorepost.ru. A person can temporarily use it free of charge. When the trial period ends, the person decides whether to continue paying for the service or find another application.

Before linking Instagram to a VK group, you need to create your own channel in the service. Main stages:

Go to the resource, create a new profile, log in.
Find and open the “Accounts” section. Select from the list those that need to be combined. In this case, this is a VK group and an Insta profile.
Then you need to go through VKontakte authorization. Give your consent to receive and use your personal account data as requested by the program.
Copy the address line and click the “Add address to VK” button. Paste the link into the “Address with token” line.
After this, the VK profile is linked to the program.
All you have to do is link Instagram - find the “Connecting and changing accounts” section.
Find the treasured name in the list that appears.
In the same way, go through authorization and enter the necessary profile data. Agree to allow the application access to personal information.

An Instagram account will be added to the system in the same way. Then you will need to create a channel:

open the “Channel” section and click the “Add a new channel” button;
select the appropriate accounts that the system already has - these are VK and Insta;
for VKontakte, indicate the appropriate group that needs to be linked;
then select the album into which the files will be uploaded. From it they will automatically post to the social network;
It is also necessary to answer the question “Should I freeze the video?”

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Common problems

Sometimes the VK Internet resource is not among the social networks available for combining with Instagram. Therefore, Instagram does not communicate with VK, posts are not published on both social networks. To solve the problem, you can try reinstalling Instagram or write to technical support.

It happens that it is not possible to link Instagram and BK due to geographical location. In this case, the social network is present in the list, but publications are not automatically posted to it. This happens due to the fact that the user is located in countries where the VK social network is prohibited. For example, he posts publications in Ukraine. In this case, it will be impossible to publish. When loading, the process will freeze and then an error message will appear. To make such a publication from Instagram, you must enable VPN and create the appropriate settings for both services.