How to fix Instagram not loading on Safari in my Mac?

same issue here. running Safari on an older Mac running Mojave. tried clearing history, etc,. but also experiencing the same issue running Safari on my laptop that is also running Mojave.

There are indeed workarounds to installing newer OSX on Macs that are no longer officially supported, which I might get around to eventually.

fingers crossed something changes and maybe things will magically work for us down the line

But in the meantime, my workaround is to use Firefox!

Bit of background here: On an older iMac 2012 21" using Catalina 10.15.7. My Mac crashed constant spinning ball of death and kernel panics. Deleted drive and used a 7 week old Time Machine back up as my current user account wasn't functioning but problem persisted so deleted hard drive and reinstalled Catalina today without doing a transfer from my back up. Usually I use Brave or Chrome but my older Mac doesn't do well with Chrome so I use Brave a lot because I like having the Instagram status bar feature extension added so I can move the status bar while watching fitness videos on Instagram.

So today I'm on a new user account and tried to use Instagram with Safari and can only see other accounts from the back end but can't go to anyones profile and load the home page. I just installed Brave and Instagram is working on there. Still hoping I find a solution for the Safari browser.

omg the same thing has been happening to me for about a month, I think its just a problem with safari because instagram works fine for me on google

Same. Only JUST happened in the last few days. ONLY safari. No issue in Firefox. This has happened before with Safari, randomly dropped off for maybe a week and then came back online. I can see main wall page with menus down the side and suggested etc, inbox is fine, but my profile doesn't show.. nor do any stories load via my mac. Actually, via my iphone the last three days has been problematic with stories too. And quite glitchy in business page backend in the "followers" "who liked your posts" "verified" tabs too. I bet there's more changes ahead that's glitching everything yet AGAIN. Yay.

It's the same with me when using my Mac. It's only happened within the past few days. Can't view my profile, the More tab, threads. I tried doing and going thru Google Chrome and it works fine. It also works on my iPhone. What the heck is wrong with Safari?

Not as far as I can tell. Based on the small number of complaints and people on this conversation maybe there aren't that many people still using older computers and older versions of the software? I can't upgrade my 2012 laptop any more than it already is. So using Chrome for now. Can't figure out how to check with Instagram. Thinking they really don't care about a handful of people with old computers. :(

No, you're definitely not the only ones! I have got a MacBook Pro from early 2013 that worked perfectly for me. Until end of February... IG is fine on my husbands Windows PC (with Firefox) but not on my Mac anymore. OS upgrade not possible. I will try to find a different browser for my Mac. Or wait until IG reacts, if ever...

I'm having the same issue. MacBook Air with Big Sur, stopped working on Safari about a week ago. Fine on the app on the iPhone though. Working on Brave even with the shields up. Seems like it might be a Safari thing?

Hi, Firefox and Chrome works for me at the moment - but not Safari

same problem..safari don't work but firefox and chrome I haven't this problem...

With New os mac Sonoma its work. With the older os dont work insta with safari…i dont know why

Hi Yes, my issue is that I can see the main page of instagram but can not load my profile, search or see any reels. I've tried different browsers, Safari, Firefox, Duck Duck Go all did the same. Google Chrome was the only browser that fully worked for me, which whilst it works I'd prefer to stay with Safari.

Same problem here, noticed at about the same time several days ago. I can access the main Instagram home page in safari, but can't do a next step like looking at any stories, my profile, etc. - it just hangs. I tried everything (clear cache, restart mac, restart router, etc.). It works fine on the Brave browser.

I'm using Safari 15.6.1 on Mac OS Catalina v10.15.7 on a MacBook Pro 15" (mid 2012).

It's a relief to know I'm not the only one. Have been going nuts the last 3 days trying all the prescribed fixes...nothing. I discovered it will work on Chrome, as someone else mentioned, but taking that extra step to use one app is not a long term solution.

Sometime between Feb. 23 & Feb 28 something happened. I was able to use IG no problem 2/23 then I was away for 5 days and upon return it was not working. Older Mac PowerBook running Catalina 10.15.7 and Safari 15.6.1. Very strange that there aren't more people asking about this. Was on the chat with Apple support yesterday but got disconnected when I rebooted routers. Cleared history, cache, checked network but nothing resolved the issue. iPhone is fine and newer MacBook Air is fine. Very annoying but I suppose first world problem so there's that.