Meta Graph API Deprecations: A Dated Timeline for Instagram, Facebook, and Threads

• November 9, 2023 — the VIDEO value for media_type was removed from Instagram content publishing (announced June 28, 2022, over a year ahead of the cutover). Video publishing moved to media_type: REELS, which is why every current video-publish integration builds a Reels container rather than a plain video one.
• December 4, 2024 — the Instagram Basic Display API reached full end of life. It had already been the only path for personal (non-professional) Instagram accounts; after this date there is no official API access for personal accounts at all, only Business and Creator accounts through the Instagram Platform.
• January 27, 2025 — the original, unprefixed Instagram Login scope names (business_basic, business_content_publish, and related scopes) were deprecated, three months after Meta announced the change on September 17, 2024. Replacements use an instagram_ prefix — instagram_business_basic, instagram_business_content_publish, instagram_business_manage_comments, and instagram_business_manage_messages.
• April 21 – May 20, 2025 — legacy Instagram v1.0 API endpoints (user, media, comment, and carousel endpoints predating the current content-publishing flow) were retired in a phased rollout, starting with v22.0 and later apps on April 21 and reaching every app by May 20. Meta announced the window on January 21, 2025.
• June 14, 2025 — the Business Login parameters enable_fb_login and force_authentication were deprecated in favor of a single force_reauth parameter.

Full detail lives in Meta's Instagram Platform changelog.

• June 18, 2024 — the since and until parameters stopped being supported when fetching the followers_count metric on /threads_insights.
• October 11, 2024 — tag formatting rules changed: a hash symbol followed immediately by a number (like #1) no longer converts to a clickable tag, and the list of unsupported special characters in tags was updated.
• November 20, 2025 — the follower threshold for profile discovery was lowered from 1,000 to 100 followers.
• December 22, 2025 — posts containing more than five links began failing with THREADS_API__LINK_LIMIT_EXCEEDED, a new hard cap.
• March 31, 2026 — Tenor API support for GIF publishing was sunset (announced February 27, 2026), in favor of GIPHY as the supported GIF source.

Source: Meta's Threads API changelog.

Separate from feature-level deprecations, Graph API versions themselves retire on a rolling schedule. As of this writing, Meta's Graph API changelog lists v26.0 as the current version (released July 29, 2026), with v19 scheduled to retire on May 21, 2026 and v20 on September 24, 2026. Meta typically supports a given major version for roughly two years from release before retiring it — plan to move off a version well before its published retirement date, not the week of.

One access-model change worth knowing the date on: as of February 1, 2023, apps requesting Advanced Access to most permissions must complete Meta Business Verification before App Review will grant it. This is the rule that catches teams who prepare a strong App Review submission but never started the separate business-verification process — see Meta Advanced Access, explained for what that process actually involves.

None of this is exotic — Meta publishes every one of these changes in advance, in the changelogs linked above. The practical failure mode is not that a change was hidden; it's that nobody on the integration side was watching. If you're building directly against the Graph API, bookmark the Instagram Platform and Threads changelogs and check them on a schedule rather than after something breaks. PostGate's adapter layer absorbs a meaningful share of this churn — version bumps, renamed scopes, and endpoint retirements get handled centrally rather than in each integration — see the current per-platform limits in the platform guides.