The time constraints are implemented by Instagram not by the app. So you can go faster if you want to but then you risk having your Instagram account frozen. For me this app worked perfectly. Subscription is only $.99 per month and if you're like me you'll only need it one time. I did have two false starts because my phone fell asleep and when that happens the app has to start over again from scratch. So I put my phone on do not disturb and turned off auto lock and let it go to work while I did other things and went to bed. And in the morning my IG feed was clean and happy.

Works shockingly well — but prepare to wait as it works, as Instagram rate limitations means any action takes ~15 seconds, or Instagram will temporarily freeze your account. So be patient, as the speed has nothing to do with the app. Yes, a (very reasonably priced) paid subscription is required for use, but it’s worth it. My use case: Mass archiving 2,000 Instagram posts. It’s taking 10+ hours (I am halfway done as I write this), and you need to leave the app open for it to work (not in the background, but open on the screen), but it does indeed do as described. Fortunately the app automatically prevents your iPhone from sleeping, so you could let it run overnight. Great filtering features (e.g. date, keywords, number of likes or comments) to take action only on the posts you want to.

This app would regularly fail and the only indicator or information was the word error very briefly appearing on screen. No information about what went wrong. If their support had replied to me when I emailed them, they might get a better review. Instead, I had to experiment with all kinds of post type and date range filters to get any really substantial deletion or archival of posts. I spent a lot of time manually doing these filters during my subscription. I still have hundreds of posts I’d like deleted from a decade of being on Instagram. It probably wasn’t much faster than doing it myself, manually, but it was less tedious. So that’s something.

It isn’t clear before downloading that you have to purchase a subscription before you can actually use any of the tools in this app. While it does eventually do what it claims, it is so so slow. Instagram‘s latest update allows you to delete more posts at once was far more ease than this paid app does 🤷🏼‍♀️