My App Was Rejected by Instagram Basic Display API Review Due to Invalid Reasons

My App was rejected by Instagram Basic Display API review due to invalid reasons

I have resubmitted my app to review for the second time to Instagram Basic Display API on 30th December 2019 .

Changes I considered in new submission are as below:

1. If your app uses Facebook login, please provide the steps from Facebook login for using Instagram Basic Display API and share the screencast for the same accordingly. (my first app submission did not include steps and screencast from login)
2. If your app does not use Facebook login, please provide the steps from login to the app (mention credentials to login in the steps) for using their APIs and share screencast for same. (my first submission did not include steps and screencast from login)
3. Please provide proper use case for your app why it uses Instagram Basic Display APIs and clearly specify what value it is adding to the Instagram users from your app. (this one seems to be most important though so I added more detailed information about my use case)

On 15th January 2020, my app was Approved just because (as I think) I made changes accordingly for above points.
Please refer this screenshot.

Another important point to consider is:

1. My first app submission took around 12 days to review and get results. 17th December 2019 to 28th December 2019.
2. My second app submission (which got approved) took around 17 days to review and get results. 30th December 2019 to 15th January 2020.

I hope this will be helpful to all others who are facing similar kind of issues.

Insufficient developer role during Instagram Basic Display app review

Nobody will tell you but you need to:

1. create a Facebook test user
2. create an Instagram account with that FB test user
3. give the credentials (email/address) of the Facebook test user to the reviewer in the Instagram Basic Display submission

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