1. Stop seeing posts or stories from accounts you follow but don’t love
You don’t want to see any more of your aunt’s ferret videos, but you don’t want to hurt her feelings with an unfollow, either. The solution? Give her a mute!
How to do it:
Muting Stories, Posts, and Notes
- Go to the account you want to mute
- Tap the Following button
- Click Mute
- Choose whether to mute posts, Stories, Notes, or all
- You can also mute Stories by clicking the three dots in the right-hand corner and pressing Mute
- If you want to mute directly from a post in your feed, click the three dots in the top right of the post and choose Hide. Then, click Mute
Muting Messages
- Click the message icon in the top right corner of your feed
- Choose a message from the account you want to mute
- Click on their profile name at the top of the screen
- Choose to Mute messages, Mute calls, or both
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2. Rearrange filters
Keep Lark at your fingertips and get Hefe out of your sight. This secret Instagram feature lets you customize your menu of filter options.
How to do it:
- When posting a photo or video, go to Filter
- Press and hold the filter you want to move, and move it up or down the list
- Move any filters you don’t regularly use to the end of the list
3. See all posts you’ve liked
Take a walk down memory lane with a review of all your past photo likes. (So. Many. Puppers.)
How to do it:
- Go to your profile
- Open the hamburger menu in the top right corner
- Tap Your activity
- Tap Likes
- Click on any photos or videos you want to view again
If you used Instagram.com to like posts, you won’t be able to see them here.
4. Clear your search history
Make sure no one ever finds out that you’ve been hunting for photos of “Mr. Clean with shirt off”. This Instagram hack lets you wipe your Instagram search history squeaky clean.
How to do it:
- Go to your profile
- Open the hamburger menu in the top right corner
- Tap Your activity
- Tap Recent searches
- Click Clear all and confirm
5. Set up notifications for other accounts
Add alerts for your favorite accounts and never miss a new post from your favorite Japanese mascot fan page again.
How to do it:
- Visit the profile page of the account you’d like to get notifications for
- Tap the Alarm bell button in the top right
- Toggle the content you want to receive notifications about: Posts, Stories, Reels or Live Videos
6. Bookmark your favorite posts
Think of “Collections” as your digital scrapbooks. Use this Instagram trick to save your favourite posts for later.
How to do it:
- Go to a post you’d like to save
- Tap the bookmark icon underneath the post you want to save
- This automatically adds the post to a generic collection. If you’d like to send it to a specific one, choose Save Collection; here you can select an existing collection or create and name a new one
- To see your saved posts and collections, visit your profile and tap the hamburger menu. Then tap Saved
7. Archive old posts (without deleting them forever)
This Instagram hack is the equivalent of the Disney vault. You can hide old posts out of sight with the “Archive” function.
How to do it:
- Tap … at the top of the post you want to remove
- Select Archive
- To review all archived posts, go to your profile and tap the hamburger icon in the top right corner
- Tap Archive
- At the top of the screen click Archive to view either Posts or Stories
If you want to restore content to your public profile, simply tap Show on Profile at any time and it’ll show up in its original spot.
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8. Limit your screen time
Just because you can scroll forever doesn’t mean you should. Save yourself from yourself with Instagram’s built-in daily timer.
How to do it:
- Go to your profile and tap the hamburger menu
- Tap Time Spent
- Tap Set daily reminder to take breaks
- Or, tap Set daily time limits
- Choose an amount of time and tap Turn On
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