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What does connecting my Instagram account allow?

Leanboat Studio uses the connection to publish approved posts to your account, to read that account’s own posts, comments and performance, and to run the reply-to-DM automations on your posts. It does not follow, like or comment anywhere but your own posts, and by default it does not publish anything you have not approved. Instagram itself shows you the exact permission list before you authorise.

What Studio does with it

PublishesApproved posts, to the account you selected, on the schedule you set — with the first comment approved alongside them, when a post has one.
Replies to your keywordWhen someone comments your keyword on a post, or replies to a story with it, it sends them the DM you approved and, under a comment, a short public reply telling them to check their DMs.
Reads your postsWhat's already on the account, so your brand file learns how you actually sound rather than how a template thinks you should.
Reads performanceFollower counts and per-post figures: reach, likes, comments, saves and shares, the text of comments on your posts, and your audience in aggregate. This is what the learning loop and your reports run on.

What it doesn’t do

  • It doesn’t act like you elsewhere. No following, unfollowing or liking, and no comments anywhere but under your own posts.
  • It doesn’t publish unapproved work by default. The week reaches you before anything is scheduled. Auto-publish changes that only if you switch it on.
  • It doesn’t reach other accounts. Only the one you selected during connection.
  • It has no inbox. There is no screen anywhere in the product that shows your private messages. Beyond the keyword replies you set up, reading conversations is not part of what this does.

Read the consent screen, it’s the real contract

When you connect, Instagram shows you exactly which permissions are being requested, in its own words, before anything happens. That screen is authoritative in a way a vendor’s marketing page can never be. Read it, and if something on it doesn’t match what’s on this page, trust the screen and tell us.

Undoing it

Two ways, and the second doesn’t involve us at all. You can disconnect the account inside Studio, or you can revoke access from your own Instagram settings, which works whether or not we cooperate. That is how it should be, and it’s worth knowing before you connect rather than after.

Related questions

On permissions.

Publishing approved posts to the account you selected, reading that account's own posts, comments and performance figures, and running the reply-to-DM automations: when someone comments or replies to a story with your keyword, it sends them the message you approved. Instagram shows you the exact permission list on its own consent screen before you authorise.

Read the screen, then decide.

Instagram tells you exactly what it's granting before you grant it.

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