Whether you want to view old stories or unarchive a post, it's easy to access your Instagram archive at any time.
Instagram allows you to archive photos you no longer wish for followers to see on your profile, but you don't necessarily want to delete. You can view your archive to unarchive the posts or simply browse through old Instagram stories.
To access your archive, head to your Instagram profile and tap the three bars in the upper right hand corner. You can also create a highlight story from a selection of old posts or stories in your archive.
Here's how to get to your Instagram archive.
1. Head to your Instagram profile on the app by tapping the right-most option at the bottom.
2. Tap the three bars in the upper righthand corner.
Tap the three horizontal line icon at the upper right hand corner. Marissa Perino/Business Insider3. Tap "Archive" next to the clock icon.
Tap "Archive.
" Marissa Perino/Business Insider 4. This will bring you to your Archive. It is automatically set to photos and videos you posted on your story. Tap the "Archive" label at the top to and select "Posts" to change the menu to show posts you've hidden.
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Tap the three dots in the upper right hand corner to open a pop-up with two options: "Settings" and "Create Highlight." Tap the latter option if you want to create a new highlight with some of your archived stories. Tap "Settings" to check your Story Controls, such as making sure photos are automatically archived.
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She previously worked at Cold Lips in London and Creative Nonfiction in Pittsburgh. She studied journalism and communications at the University of Pittsburgh, along with creative writing. Find her on Twitter: @mlperino.
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Ditch the algorithm and fill your feed with posts you actually want to see with Instagram’s new feed filters.
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After years of users begging for its return, Instagram has finally relaunched the chronological feed.
With a couple of taps, you can switch up your feed to show the most recent posts at the top instead of being served days-old posts that the algorithm wants you to engage with.
You can also customize your feed further by only viewing accounts you’ve set as “favorites” for a quicker, more personal scrolling experience. We’ll hit the like button on that.
While Meta is framing these feed options as a way to “to shape Instagram into the best possible experience,” it’s really a way for the social media giant to sidestep the U.S. federal government’s concerns over real-world harm fueled by its content algorithm. That’s probably why users will have to go out of their way to use these new feed options and aren’t able to enable them permanently.
The algorithmic feed will still reign supreme, but at least we’ve got the option to skirt it now.
Right now, these extra feed options are only available on the mobile app for iOS and Android. There’s been no word from Meta on whether or not this feature will come to the web browser version of the site.
The Following feed narrows your scrolling experience and serves up posts in chronological order.
With the Favorite feed, users can pick up to 50 accounts from their following list for a more cherry-picked and personal experience. We all follow too many accounts on Instagram and this feed option is a great way to make sure you don’t miss posts from friends, family, and other accounts that you want to stay on top of.
Instead of a video from an NBA All-Star and an ad from a tattoo business in my main feed, the Favorites feed showed me a reel from a friend that I had not seen the previous day.
Like the Following feed, the Favorite feed will only include posts from users on this list. No suggested posts, ads, or followed hashtag content.
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If you're like most users, you already have Instagram posts that you'd rather not see again. Maybe you posted some content from a period in your life that you'd rather forget, or maybe it's not very interesting anymore.
Fortunately, Instagram makes it easy to hide these posts from view without deleting them, thanks to the archive feature. But what if you want to return to those photos and videos later? Check Instagram app not responding? The best ways to fix it on Android and iOS.
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In this article, we will show you how to view the posts you have archived on Instagram.
You can archive a post you've shared to hide it from your profile so your followers and others on Instagram can't see it. When you archive any post, it saves all your likes and comments.
When you archive a post on Instagram, it means it no longer appears on your profile. nine0003
However, the post is not deleted, and you can view it at any time by going to your archive. You can also unarchive the post so that it appears on your profile again.
If you're active on Instagram, you may have to hide a photo from your feed just because it doesn't fit into your carefully curated feed. But just because an image won't fit in your feed doesn't mean you don't want to save it.
The archive function allows you to hide these messages without deleting them. This can be useful if you want to save a post for sentimental reasons.
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The archive feature is only available on the mobile version of Instagram, so you will need to use the Instagram app to view your archived posts.
Having said that, here's how to view the posts you've archived:
Here you can view all your archived messages. We have covered this before How to archive and unarchive Instagram posts. If you don't know how to do this, be sure to check out our guide. nine0003
When you archive a post, it is only visible to you.
