Instragram notifications not appearing?

I recently got the iPhone X with IOS 13, ever since I got the phone I haven't received any Instagram notifications. All my other apps are working perfectly fine, and when I open Instagram I have many direct messages and other things that I was never notified about. I have tried deleting and re-downloading the app, restarting my phone, made sure do not disturb wasn't on, and checked my notification settings to make sure everything was on. Everything seems to be in working order but I'm still not getting any notifications.

How to extract photos from an old IPhone 4s with no passcode or iTunes?

I have recently found my old IPhone 4s but can't remember the passcode and no longer have the computer the iTunes was set up on. I have Googled it and appears without the passcode or iTunes it is lost forever. Is there anything I can do? Even pay a price to get the pictures extracted, I would really like the pictures off the phone as it was my best years in secondary school. I guess if there's nothing I can do than that is it, any help would be really appreciated. I don't want any other data apart from the photos.

Is my friend lying to me?

So I traded my airpods with his iphone 7 then 2 days later he says he needs it back because he has to turn it back in to Sprint but the thing is he got it 3 years ago? It doesn't make any sense It should have been payed off by now. Do you think he's lying?

How to reset iPhone with passcode or iTunes?

My younger sister recently received my mom's old iPhone 4 as a gift. However, we forgot the passcode. So we want to factory reset it. I have tried hard resetting it, and connecting it to iTunes but neither have worked. It is not connected to any data plan or Wi-Fi network, either.