Instagram failed to publish Reels article
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Why did the final step of publishing return error 2207089 { "error": { "message": "Invalid parameter", "type": "OAuthException", "code": 100, "error_subcode": 2207089, "is_transient": false, "error_user_title": "Carousel Item Cannot Be Published Standalone", "error_user_msg": "Media created with media_type=VIDEO is a carousel item and cannot be published as a standalone post. To publish a standalone video, use media_type=REELS instead.", "fbtrace_id": "A6GfaOpO7FLFBYrt5W4sQP6" } }

Cha Mo
Asked about 2 months ago
Francisco

also happened here

February 25 at 8:55 PM
Moh

same here

February 25 at 8:55 PM
Bagas

this happen to me too, help

February 25 at 8:56 PM
熊红亮

The release in the morning went smoothly. Since noon, I have also encountered the same problem and am urgently looking forward to the official resolution.

February 25 at 10:28 PM
Ricu

Having the same issue, started at 2026-02-26T03:34:47.450Z

February 26 at 12:09 AM
Britt

Same issue here

February 26 at 12:37 AM
Maurizio

same issue here

February 26 at 2:49 AM
Ramesh

same issue here

February 26 at 3:07 AM
Balasaheb

This issue is happening for all REEL posts and STORIES with VIDEO/REELS. For other type of posts it is working.

February 26 at 4:51 AM
Mateo

same

February 26 at 5:49 AM
Danilo

This issue is happening for long time. WE NEED FIX THIS ASAP AND WE NEED META UPDATE THE META STATUS PAGE: https://metastatus.com/

February 26 at 8:00 AM
Donnie

Same

February 26 at 8:55 AM
Eduardo Thales

Same problems

February 26 at 11:50 AM
Cha Mo

The issue has been fixed

February 26 at 5:26 PM
熊红亮

Yes, it seems that the problem has been fixed

February 26 at 6:01 PM
Ricardo

Fixed

February 26 at 10:38 PM
Selected Answer
1

Same issue! Meta pls fix asap

February 26 at 3:18 PM
Daniel
2

Same here.

February 26 at 12:47 AM
Oktay
2

We have same issue. Reels videos and video stories.

February 26 at 12:52 AM
Пашка
2

Could you please add your comment there as well?

https://developers.facebook.com/support/bugs/1629677851551283/

It might help us get Meta’s attention.

February 26 at 1:28 AM
Oktay
2

same issue since morning

February 26 at 1:29 AM
Manish
2

Same issue here

February 26 at 1:34 AM
Gabri
2

Same here!

Please add comments to this bug report as well: https://developers.facebook.com/support/bugs/1629677851551283/

February 26 at 1:57 AM
Fırat
2

Same issue on our end

February 26 at 2:00 AM
Ervin
2

Please update information and status or require more as needed to get this fixed as soon as possible. Thank you!

February 26 at 2:04 AM
José
2

Same here!!!!

February 26 at 2:37 AM
Danilo
2

Same issue here!

February 26 at 2:53 AM
Kévin
2

facing same issue

February 26 at 3:01 AM
Muhammad Arsalan
2

same on our side!

February 26 at 3:14 AM
Florian
2

2/26 utc12:36 still 2207089

February 26 at 4:36 AM
楊孝儀
2

same here, starting today

February 26 at 4:55 AM
Jordi
2

same

February 26 at 5:30 AM
Davis
2

same here

February 26 at 7:12 AM
Andreas
2

Same issue

February 26 at 8:11 AM
Rafael
2

We are also experiencing this issue. Please address ASAP!

February 26 at 8:37 AM
Jordan
2

Same

February 26 at 9:03 AM
John
2

We are seeing the same issue, but it is only occurring with the Facebook Graph API (for accounts connected via a Facebook Page). The Instagram Graph API is working fine on our end.

February 26 at 9:04 AM
Bilal
2

Same issue

February 26 at 9:09 AM
Jacek
Bolanle

Same issue here

February 26 at 10:16 AM
2

same issue here

February 26 at 10:22 AM
Marvel
2

no change. everything was working fine last week and before too. Today, unable to publish video (same format as before, here 9:16). media_type is set to REELS. Container ID OK (on /media). Then /media_publish error 2207089 (error code not documented by the way).

February 26 at 10:40 AM
Dev
2

Same issue

February 26 at 12:08 PM
Parkcharge
2

Working again now !

February 27 at 12:41 AM
Ignacio
3

having the same issue also. a sudden change

February 25 at 11:38 PM
Papa
3

I'm having the same issue here since a couple hours ago.

February 25 at 11:55 PM
Gestor
3

same here, please fix it!

February 26 at 12:24 AM
Tomáš
3

Experiencing the same issue

February 26 at 12:30 AM
Adriaen
3

Facing same issue since couple of hours

February 26 at 12:32 AM
Shahid
3

We have same issue

February 26 at 1:15 AM
3

same issue

February 26 at 1:01 PM
Shaher
3

Seems like its working now. Same for everyone else?

February 26 at 5:11 PM
Davis
熊红亮

Yes, it seems that the service has returned to normal

February 26 at 6:00 PM
Papa

yes, its working now

February 26 at 6:31 PM
Jordi

yes, working again for me too

February 26 at 10:48 PM
Kévin

Yeess working again !

February 26 at 11:09 PM
3

The issue has been fixed

February 26 at 5:26 PM
Cha Mo
菊地 さや

Around 10:00 AM on 2/27 JST, requests have been successful too!

However, it seems that posts that include videos (Carousel, Reels, Stories) will be published a little later.

February 26 at 5:49 PM
4

Yep, same issue here!

February 26 at 12:45 AM
Lars
5

I’m seeing the same issue and can reproduce it reliably. This may be a platform-side issue, because it persists after ruling out the usual causes.

Observed behavior - POST /{ig-user-id}/media with media_type=REELS returns a creation_id. - Polling the container shows status_code=FINISHED. - POST /{ig-user-id}/media_publish fails with error_subcode=2207089: “Media created with media_type=VIDEO is a carousel item and cannot be published as a standalone post…”

Minimal repro 1) Create container: POST https://graph.facebook.com/vXX.X/{ig-user-id}/media Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded access_token=... media_type=REELS video_url=https://<public_https_mp4>.mp4 share_to_feed=true caption=test 2) Poll: GET https://graph.facebook.com/vXX.X/{creation_id}?fields=status_code,status&access_token=... (reaches FINISHED) 3) Publish: POST https://graph.facebook.com/vXX.X/{ig-user-id}/media_publish Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded creation_id=... access_token=... (fails with 2207089)

What I checked (common causes) - video_url is public HTTPS and returns: - 200 on HEAD with Content-Type: video/mp4 and Content-Length present - 206 Partial Content on Range: bytes=0-1 with Accept-Ranges: bytes - no redirects (no 301/302) - Tested a short “control” MP4 (3–5s, H.264, no audio, simple caption “test”) → same result. - Tried request bodies as x-www-form-urlencoded / multipart/form-data / JSON → same outcome. - Tried multiple Graph API versions (older + newer) → same outcome. - Token/linkage sanity: - token valid and includes instagram_content_publish - publishing IG user id matches the linked IG business account id

Impact - Container creation succeeds and reaches FINISHED, but publish is rejected because the container is treated as VIDEO at publish time (2207089).

Temporary workaround (optional) - If publish returns 2207089, fall back to publishing a PHOTO (e.g., thumbnail) with the same caption to avoid a hard failure.

If anyone else can confirm, please share: - one fbtrace_id from the 2207089 failure - whether your video_url returns 206 for Range: bytes=0-1 - the Graph API version used

February 26 at 9:11 AM
Ricardo
8

We have the same issue. Has someone seen an official bug report about it?

February 26 at 12:04 AM
Hendrik
Ricu

https://developers.facebook.com/support/bugs/1629677851551283/

February 26 at 12:18 AM
Hendrik

@Ricu Thanks a lot for the bug report. I know that Meta will ask you for a grap api explorer session. Would you mind adding it, so they have immediately all data they need

February 26 at 12:46 AM
Ricu

Hey Hendrik — I tried, but they’ll probably say they can’t act on it because it’s not reproducible every time (they’ll just ask us to “publish” again / try again). Also, the container expires, so I couldn’t attach a saved session/graph since I can’t reliably reproduce it.

February 26 at 5:35 AM
Ricu

@Hendrik, done ✅

February 26 at 5:55 AM
Hendrik

@Ricu Thank you, I appreciate it

February 26 at 7:06 AM
Hendrik

@Ricu You mentioned that it works sometimes for you. Did I understand you correctly here? For us all are failing

February 26 at 7:07 AM
Mikhail

@Ricu you check if a ticket still open for you, pls? and reopen if not. Thanks!

February 26 at 10:02 AM
8

Same here

February 26 at 12:13 AM
Martin
9

We have same issue.

This issue is occurring with Reels videos and video stories.

February 25 at 10:25 PM
菊地 さや
11

same here

February 25 at 8:47 PM
Moh
熊红亮

Starting from noon today, the same problem has also emerged here

February 25 at 10:19 PM
Ramesh

I am also getting this error, I think its their catalog product setting, is what getting updated

February 26 at 1:06 AM
13

the media_type has already been set to REELS, but the response remains the same

February 25 at 8:53 PM
Moh
이상훈

same here too

February 26 at 2:36 AM