resh accounts banned at registration even with clean setup, what am i missing in 2026?

been struggling with this for days now and im losing it, hoping someone here figured it out.

my setup:

• clean mobile US proxy (real 4g/5g, checked the ip on scamalytics, fraud score 10, not blacklisted, tmobile)
• US phone numbers, same country as the proxy
• registering on a real phone with nomixcloner (app cloner, every clone gets its own android id, gaid, drm id, fingerprint)
• rotate ip before each reg

the problem:about half my regs hit the "upload a verification selfie" screen right after signup. the ones that survive get banned a few minutes after i post the first reel. message says "our technology found your account doesnt follow our rules"
what i already tried:

• different number providers, cheap and expensive
• rotating to fresh ips, didnt help
• registering through web on an antidetect browser (adspower), still got the same checkpoint
• email reg with aged gmail, same result

so its not the proxy (verified clean), not the number (US matched), not the device ids (cloner spoofs them). i ruled out pretty much everything.

questions:

1. is this just the account integrity ban wave hitting everything right now or am i actually missing something
2. does ig detect the nomixcloner/cloned app itself no matter what ids you spoof? is a real stock device the only way
3. anyone registering at scale this month, what actually still works in june 2026? web? stock app then import? real device farm?
4. is posting a reel day 1 on a fresh account just suicide during this wave, or is the new account boost still worth it if you have volume

if anyone is running fresh regs successfully right now id really appreciate knowing your stack. happy to share what i found back. (using proxy from proxyo, USA)
thanks

Sounds like platform level detection got much stricter not just proxy or number issues, cloned environments and aggressive new account activity are getting flagged hard now
If accounts die after first reel it is probably behavior and trust score not one single setup issue

Accounts that are fresh and made on devices that dont have previous account creation history are fine; however if you create accounts on the same device over and over; that is when they get flagged. You can either keep resetting the device and getting a new device ID; or have someone make accounts for you; there are lots of people listing accounts in the BlackHatWorld Marketplace, so I suggest you check there.

It sounds like IG is looking at more than just your proxy, phone number and spoofed IDs. The selfie checks and bans suggest the accounts are being flagged as suspicious or inauthentic, possibly because of app cloning, device signals or account behavior. So it's probably not just the proxy, IG's detection is likely seeing something else.

IG easily detects app cloners now via sandbox environment checks; you need real rootless physical devices or a clean device farm setup in 2026.

App cloner generates random IDs but Meta cross-references against Google Play Integrity API and Widevine attestation — both leak the real underlying device's hardware-backed keystore signature regardless of what nomixcloner shows at the Android API level. That's almost certainly your tell. Two fixes: (1) flash a stock AOSP build per session and reset the keystore via fastboot before each account creation — slow but defeats Play Integrity, or (2) use a Genymotion/Waydroid emulator with rooted attestation spoofing — faster but Meta's been catching emulators more often since Q1 2026. T-Mobile 4G with fraud score 10 is fine, the issue isn't your IP, it's the device attestation layer that nomixcloner doesn't touch.

i wouldn't be so quick to rule everything out. clean ip, matching country, and fresh identifiers don't automatically equal trusted. social platforms have gotten much more aggressive about account integrity in the last year. when accounts die right after creation and first activity, it often points to trust and authenticity signals rather than a single technical issue.