Instagram's API cannot delete media, leaving retired products with a manual removal step
On October 26, 2026, three product-retirement alerts for products #144, #145 and #146 fired within about fifteen seconds of each other. In each case, the Instagram entry stated that the API cannot delete media, so the post must be removed by hand in the app. Pinterest and TikTok also required manual deletion in several of the alerts, and the tweets for two products had to be deleted by hand as well. The alerts reported how many items were removed automatically versus left for manual action, but did not specify which items were removed. The record gives no reason for the Instagram limitation beyond the alert message itself.
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