Instagram — History
Change log of legal documents, generated whenever the source text changes.
Updated Instagram/TOS text substantially reworks structure and clarity but does not add new user-facing obligations, data use, or dispute-resolution terms beyond formatting changes.
Reworded Instagram’s privacy policy effective Dec 16, 2025 with minor wording/formatting changes; no clear substantive updates to what data is collected or your rights.
Terms clarify the license covers “that content” rather than “any such content,” leaving the deletion timing, account suspension, and US/California dispute venue terms unchanged.
Meta removed the Ireland-based dispute forum and switched to California courts and law for most non-consumer disputes, while tightening account-termination and content-removal wording.
Meta renamed and expanded sections around rights management, ads, cross-account use, and Instagram/Accounts Centre data sharing, while adding advertising and communication-use details.
Meta added subscription-without-ads language, expanded content removal/enforcement powers, and changed dispute resolution to consumer-home courts and Irish law for non-consumer claims.
Meta changed who the contract is with and revised content, account, liability, and dispute-resolution terms, including California court jurisdiction for non-consumers.
Meta added more detailed ads, privacy, account, liability, and dispute terms, including Ireland law for non-consumer disputes and stronger content enforcement rights.
Instagram added a GDPR-style legal basis and rights section, plus expanded explanations for ads, Accounts Centre sharing, and joint-controller partner processing.
Meta’s terms shift to Irish/California-era entity and law language, expand account enforcement discretion, and add stronger warranty/liability disclaimers with a new California dispute clause.
Meta expanded ad, account-linking, and communication tracking disclosures, and changed the covered controller and rights section to add more account-management options.
Instagram added a legal-basis and GDPR rights section, clarified its Ireland entity, and expanded explanations of Accounts Centre and ad processing.
Meta shifted Instagram terms to Ireland-based contracting, added ad-free subscription options, and expanded enforcement and dispute-resolution rules.
Meta changed Instagram-linked terms to clarify data use, broaden moderation language, and shift dispute resolution toward California courts and law for non-consumer cases.
Instagram’s terms now add ad-free subscription options, shift governing law and dispute forums, and expand Meta’s content moderation and account-termination procedures.
Meta greatly expands disclosed data collection, sharing, AI training, cross-company use, and retention practices, including data from non-users, partners, devices, and legal/safety requests.
Instagram replaced a login page with Facebook/Meta terms, introducing broad rules on personalized ads, data use, content licenses, account suspension, liability and dispute handling.
No substantive change.
Instagram replaced a cookie notice with full Terms adding broad content licenses, ad-funded data use, account termination rights, liability limits, and dispute rules.