Connect your Instagram

Why connect

The best material for your website is already on your grid: photos of your work, and captions about each piece in your own words. When you connect your Instagram, your recent posts come into your site's files as pictures with their captions, and Ullbek builds from them. A site built from your grid looks like yours on the first try; one built from made-up pictures is a draft you then have to fix. See a site built from six posts.

Ullbek offers this once, early in the chat, after your site's name is settled and before it starts building. You can say yes, or start without and connect later by asking.

How to connect

1. Tap Connect Instagram

   Ullbek sends a card titled Connect your Instagram. Tap its Connect Instagram button.

2. Allow it in Instagram's own window

   Instagram opens its permission window and asks whether to share your account with Ullbek-IG (that's us; Instagram shows the app's registered name). Check it's the account you want, then tap Allow.

3. See what came in

   You land on a Connected page: your picture, name and @handle, how many posts came in, and how they become your website.

4. Go back to your chat

   Tap Back to your chat. Inside Instagram, the page points you to the ✕ at the top of the screen instead: tap it and you're back in the conversation.

Back in the chat, Ullbek confirms it in a line, usually within a minute: which account connected and how many posts came in. Then it carries on with the next question, or starts building.

Business or Creator accounts

Instagram only lets apps connect to professional accounts: Business or Creator. Most people who sell on Instagram already have one. If yours is a personal account, Ullbek tells you after you tap Allow, and you can switch in about a minute:

1. Open your profile

   Tap your picture at the bottom right, then the menu (☰) at the top.

2. Account type and tools

   Under For professionals, tap Account type and tools, then Switch to professional account.

3. Pick Creator or Business

   Choose a category that fits and follow the steps. Contact details and a Facebook Page are optional.

4. Connect again

   Go back to your chat with Ullbek and tap Connect Instagram once more.

What Ullbek reads, and what it never does

That's the whole permission: read-only access to your own profile and posts. The pictures and captions are saved with your website so Ullbek can build from them. Our privacy policy has the full detail under Instagram Data.

If you'd rather not connect

That's fine, and Ullbek won't keep asking. Tap Start without and your first site is built with pictures made to fit your style. You can share photos and posts straight into the chat whenever you like, and they go onto your site the same way. See Sharing photos into the chat.

Disconnecting

You can take the permission back at any time, from Instagram itself:

1. Open Apps and websites

   In the Instagram app, open Settings and search for Apps and websites. On a computer, it's Settings → Apps and websites, or instagram.com/accounts/manage_access.

2. Remove Ullbek-IG

   Under Active, find Ullbek-IG and tap Remove.

Instagram tells Ullbek straight away. Ullbek forgets the connection and its access, and lets you know in the chat. The pictures already on your site stay where they are, so your site keeps working. You can connect again whenever you like.

Deleting your data

When you remove an app, Instagram also lets you ask it to delete the information it received. If you send Ullbek that request, the pictures and captions that came from your Instagram are deleted from your site's files as well, and you get a confirmation code with a page that shows what was deleted. Pages that used those pictures will need new ones: just ask Ullbek.

To delete your whole site or your Ullbek account, sign in on the web (see Your site on the web), or email support@ullbek.com for any data request.