RyukGram

A feature-rich iOS tweak for Instagram, forked from SCInsta with additional features and fixes.
Version v1.1.4 | Tested on Instagram 423.1.0

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Note

To modify RyukGram's settings, check out this section below for help

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Installation

Important

Which type of device are you planning on installing this tweak on?

• Jailbroken/TrollStore device -> Download pre-built tweak
• Standard iOS device -> Sideload the dylib using Feather or similar

Features

Features marked with * are new or improved in RyukGram

General

• Hide ads
• Hide Meta AI
• Copy description
• Do not save recent searches
• Use detailed (native) color picker
• Enable liquid glass buttons
• Enable teen app icons
• IG Notes:
  • Hide notes tray
  • Hide friends map
  • Enable note theming
  • Custom note themes
• Focus/Distractions
  • No suggested users
  • No suggested chats
  • Hide trending searches
  • Hide explore posts grid

Feed

• Hide stories tray
• Hide entire feed
• No suggested posts
• No suggested for you (accounts)
• No suggested reels
• No suggested threads posts
• Disable video autoplay

Reels

• Modify tap controls
• Always show progress scrubber
• Disable auto-unmuting reels (properly blocks mute switch, volume buttons, and announcer broadcasts) *
• Confirm reel refresh
• Unlock password-locked reels *
• Hide reels header
• Hide reels blend button
• Disable scrolling reels
• Prevent doom scrolling (limit maximum viewable reels)
• Enhanced Pause/Play mode (when Pause/Play tap control is set): *
  • Mute toggle auto-hidden, only play/pause icon visible
  • Audio forced on in reels tab
  • Play indicator properly hidden when video plays (fixes IG bug after hold/zoom)
  • Playback toggle synced with overlay during hold/zoom
  • Works across IG A/B test variants

Saving

• Download feed posts (photo + video)
• Download reels
• Download stories
• Save profile picture
• Download buttons on media — tap a button directly on feed posts, reels sidebar, and story overlay *
• Download method — choose between download button or long-press gesture *
• Save action — choose between share sheet or save directly to Photos *
• Download confirmation — optional confirmation dialog before downloading *
• Non-blocking download HUD — pill-style progress at the top, tap to cancel *
• Debug fallback — if IG updates break downloads, shows diagnostic info instead of crashing *
• Customize finger count for long-press
• Customize hold time for long-press

Stories and messages

• Keep deleted messages (preserves unsent messages with visual indicator and notification pill) *
• Manually mark messages as seen (button or toggle mode) *
• Auto mark seen on send (marks messages as read when you send any message) *
• Send audio as file — send audio files as voice messages from the DM plus menu *
• Download voice messages — adds a Download option to the long-press menu on voice messages, saves as M4A via share sheet *
• Disable typing status
• Unlimited replay of direct stories
• Disable view-once limitations
• Disable screenshot detection
• Disable story seen receipt (blocks network upload, toggleable at runtime without restart) *
• Keep stories visually unseen — keeps the colorful ring in the tray after viewing *
• Manual mark story as seen — button on story overlay to selectively mark stories as seen *
• Stop story auto-advance — stories won't auto-skip when the timer ends *
• Story download button — download directly from the story overlay *
• Download disappearing DM media (photos + videos) *
• Mark disappearing messages as viewed button *
• Upload audio as voice message — send audio files, extract audio from videos, with built-in trim editor *
• Disable instants creation

Navigation

• Modify tab bar icon order
• Modify swiping between tabs
• Hiding tabs
  • Hide feed tab
  • Hide explore tab
  • Hide reels tab
  • Hide create tab

Confirm actions

• Confirm like: Posts/Stories
• Confirm like: Reels
• Confirm follow
• Confirm repost
• Confirm call
• Confirm voice messages
• Confirm follow requests
• Confirm shh mode (disappearing messages)
• Confirm posting comment
• Confirm changing direct message theme
• Confirm sticker interaction

Optimization

• Automatically clears unneeded cache folders, reducing the size of your Instagram installation

Known Issues

• Preserved unsent messages cannot be removed using "Delete for you". Pull to refresh in the DMs tab clears all preserved messages as a workaround.

Opening Tweak Settings

Building from source

Prerequisites

• XCode + Command-Line Developer Tools
• Homebrew
• CMake (brew install cmake)
• Theos
• cyan *only required for sideloading
• ipapatch *only required for sideloading

Setup

1. Install iOS 16.2 frameworks for theos
   1. Click to download iOS SDKs
   2. Unzip, then copy the iPhoneOS16.2.sdk folder into ~/theos/sdks
2. Clone repo: git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/faroukbmiled/RyukGram
3. For sideloading: Download a decrypted Instagram IPA from a trusted source, making sure to rename it to com.burbn.instagram.ipa. Then create a folder called packages inside of the project folder, and move the Instagram IPA file into it.

Run build script

$ chmod +x build.sh
$ ./build.sh <sideload/rootless/rootful>

Credits

• SCInsta by @SoCuul — original tweak this fork is based on
• @BandarHL — creator of the original BHInstagram project
• @faroukbmiled — RyukGram modifications and additional features