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Can You Really See Who Views Your Instagram Profile?

Instagram has lots of cool features beyond its photo filters and hashtags. But can you see who views your Instagram profile? Here's the answer.

Scrolling through Instagram can be good inspiration for everything from selfie captions to fashion choices thanks to friends, family, and influencers with likable photos. You might even be that inspiration for someone else. Whether people view your profile out of nosiness or admiration, is it possible to see who views your Instagram profile?

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Can you see who views your Instagram profile?

Instagram doesn’t allow users to see who views their profile. So if you look through someone’s profile and don’t like or comment on a post, there’s no way for them to know who sees the pictures. “Similar to Facebook, users are unable to see who has viewed their profiles regardless of the type of profile they own: personal, business, or creator,” says Reggie Azevedo Filho, who works for the social media management platform Traject Social (here’s how to block someone on Facebook Messenger, by the way). This goes for both users with accounts and people without accounts who use the web to browse Instagram publicly. Instagram Business accounts will display stats about the volume of traffic but doesn’t show specific profile information, according to Alex Heid, Chief Research and Development Officer at SecurityScorecard. Business accounts specifically show the number of who people visited your profile in the past seven days, or how many people saw your posts in their feed, according to an Instagram representative. Here’s what it means to restrict someone on Instagram.

How to see who views your Instagram stories

If you share more Instagram stories than posts, you’ll have better luck finding out who’s viewing your content. Users who view stories appear in a “viewers list” for 24 hours after the story is live for the original poster to see. “This grants you insights into the specific audience members who have viewed your photo, video, or story post for the same period of time your post is active,” Azevedo says. After 24 hours, the list disappears, but if you save your stories, you can still see the number of people who saw them (and who). You must be logged in to see this information. By the way, here’s how to see who unfollows you on Facebook.

Is there a third-party app that lets me see who views my Instagram profile?

Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012, so there’s some overlap in privacy settings. So, like Facebook, no third-party apps will tell you who looks at your Instagram profile, just like there’s no way to find out if anyone screenshots your Instagram story.  “Anything advertising a feature that shows who viewed your profile would not be a legitimate service and should be avoided as it is likely just an app that is there to collect data for those who use it,” Heid says. There’s no indication that Instagram will ever decide to allow users to see who views their profile. Next, learn how to tell if someone blocked you on Instagram.

Sources:

  • Reggie Azevedo Filho, social media management platform Traject Social
  • Alex Heid, Chief Research and Development officer at SecurityScorecard

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How to See Who Viewed Your Instagram Videos in 2 Ways

  • You can't see who views your Instagram profile, but you can see who views stories and videos. 
  • For Instagram stories, you can see exactly who viewed your story while it's still live.
  • For video posts, you can only see the total number of views and users who've liked the posts.

While you can't see who viewed your Instagram profile, there are two ways you can track the viewers of video content you post on Instagram.

To see who viewed a video on your Instagram story, you'll have to tap the story while it's still live. The total number will appear in the bottom left hand corner. Tap to scroll and view the names of all the users who've watched the story.

For a video posted to your profile feed, tap the label underneath the post. Unfortunately, you can only view the total number of views but not the individual user names. You can, however, view the users who have liked it and, thus, have viewed it.

Here's how to see who viewed your Instagram videos.

Can you see who views your Instagram? 

Instagram offers no way to see who has visited your profile. 

While the list of Instagram profile visits is hidden, you can get a pretty good idea of who has been checking you out when they interact with one of your stories or video posts. 

How to see who viewed one of your Instagram stories

1. Open Instagram on your mobile device.

2. Tap on Your Story – the icon with your profile picture – in the top left hand corner. You can also access your story from your profile page. Both will show a colored ring around your circular profile picture.

Tap “Your Story.” Stefan Ionescu/Insider

3. Tap Activity in the bottom left corner. 

Tap “Activity.” Stefan Ionescu/Insider

4. You'll see a pop-up with the number of viewers and a list of the people who viewed the video. You can scroll through the list to see their names.

You can now see everyone who viewed your Instagram story. Stefan Ionescu/Insider

How to see who viewed your Instagram video

1. Open the Instagram app on your mobile device.

2. Tap the profile icon in the bottom right corner of the screen.

3. Find the video you want to see the views for and tap it.

Note: Videos will have a video player icon in their top right corner to make them easily identifiable.

Check for the video player icon to easily identify your videos. Stefan Ionescu/Insider

4. Underneath the video, you'll see a total number of views as well as a few of the names of those who liked it. Tap on these labels to view more details.

5. In the details, you'll see the total number of views listed again at the very top; the individual viewers' names are not accessible. Scroll the list to see the names of everyone who liked the video, or use the search bar at the top to save time and search for a specific person.

ou can see the number of views and a few names of the people who liked your video. Stefan Ionescu/Insider

Note: The views total is only available for videos – for still photos, the details pane will only show the names of those who liked it.

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Is it possible to see guests on instagram and who visited

Published: Heading: FAQAuthor: instagrammatika

Instagram is a social network used by hundreds of millions of people around the world, and which in a fairly short time has managed to become a powerful platform for promoting yourself and your online business. However, with all this, at the moment it is impossible to find out who visited the page on Instagram using the functionality of the resource, because this option is still not provided. Perhaps in the future it will appear, but under the current conditions, you can try to calculate page guests in other ways.

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In the application itself

If you try, you can see those who looked into the account and using Instagram:

  • Open the official application on the phone.
  • Press the heart button in the menu bar at the bottom.
  • View activity data for all subscriptions and subscribers.
  • Select the "Subscriptions" tab and look at all updates in the profile.

But, as you might guess, in this way you can see only those guests who have already declared their presence by putting likes under publications or writing comments under them. Although this method is not bad, because from a computer, i.e. in the web version of Instagram, you can’t do this either - you can only like and comment on it yourself. However, with the advent of the "Stories" of guests on Instagram, you can see better - the statistics of such publications disappearing over time always reflect who watched them, which means they were on the page. Moreover, you can see those who looked, even if they did not mark “History” in any way. You can also use not the most direct and not the most productive, but still giving some kind of transparent way - to make your Instagram profile private. The fact is that with this status, only subscribers will be able to view the publication (and this already closes the issue of random guests), and everyone else will have to apply for this. And by the one from whom these applications will be received, it will be possible to understand who visited the page and wants to continue to do so. That is, it is also a way to weed out unwanted guests.

Through a third-party application

If you want guests to be visible on Instagram on a computer, you can try the Unfollowgram website (there is an option to run it in a mobile browser as well). This is done like this:

  • Enter the name of the site in the search bar and go to this resource.
  • Click on the "Sign in with Instagram" button.
  • Log in to the system by entering the login and password for an existing account.
  • See all the activity of followers on the page - and not only notifications about likes and comments, but also all their visits to the page and views of publications.

On the main page of the Unfollowgram website, you can also see the “Sign in with Twitter” button, which indicates that information about activity in this social network is also provided, but this option has not yet been provided for other resources. As it is not planned by Instagram itself, because the function of viewing "Guests" is not implemented in any of the world-famous social networks. It is convenient for account holders, but it greatly limits the actions of all users who do not want their every step to be displayed on other people's pages. Therefore, Instagram has chosen the path of privacy. It is worth noting that most of the applications that promise to show for free who visited the page, in fact, turn out to be dummies and, no matter how much you install them on your phone, there will be no sense in it. They either show some random set of users, simulating what really works, or simply show all the same likes and comments that each user can see on their own.

Who viewed my Instagram? - CCM

Last update by user Natalia Torzhanova .

There is no direct way to check the users who have viewed your Instagram profile. Instagram does not have a feature that allows you to see who has viewed your photos. However, there are a few tricks that will help you find out who visited your account.

  • How to see who visited your Instagram
    • Recent Subscribers
    • Likes
    • Statistics
    • Stories
  • What if you have already installed an Instagram visitor tracking app?

There are many apps that purportedly let you know who has viewed an Instagram page. But many of them just provide a list of the people you've chatted with recently. Some of these applications require payment or registration and do not even guarantee the privacy of the user's personal data.

How to see who visited your Instagram

With some simple steps you can get an idea of ​​who visited your account.

Recent Followers

See who recently followed your Instagram. This can give you an idea of ​​the new people visiting your account.

Likes

See who liked a photo of you recently, or who recently commented on your post. Such activity definitely indicates that the user has viewed your profile.

Statistics

In the statistics section of of your Instagram account, you can see an estimate of who has viewed your profile. The exact names of viewers are not displayed, but information such as cities, countries, average age and gender is available. This can give significant clues.

Stories

Instagram allows you to check who has seen your published stories. The list of views is available within 24 hours. Go to your story and swipe up. A list will appear with the identity of each visitor (even if they are not your subscriber). The more stories you post, the more often you see who is watching your profile:

What if you have already installed an Instagram visitor tracking app?

As we said earlier, these applications do not provide a complete and real picture of browsing. Here are some of them: Who saw my profile, InstaAgent, Qmiran, Kazuy, SocialView, InstaCare and Who Viewed Me on Instagram . If you have already installed any of these applications, we recommend that take precautions as most of these applications receive your personal data.

To be safe, the first step is to uninstall all such applications on your device. Open Instagram or go to the official website. Go to menu Tools and go to section Authorized Applications . Here you can deny access to all applications that were previously associated with your account.


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