How to view sensitive content on instagram
Updates to the Sensitive Content Control
Log in
June 6, 2022
Updated August 25, 2022
The Sensitive Content Control has only two options for teens: “Standard” and “Less.” New teens on Instagram under 16 years old will be defaulted into the “Less” state. For teens already on Instagram, we will send a prompt encouraging them to select the “Less” experience.
This will make it more difficult for young people to come across potentially sensitive content or accounts in Search, Explore, Hashtag Pages, Reels, Feed Recommendations and Suggested Accounts.
In addition, we are testing a new way to encourage teens to update their safety and privacy settings. We’ll show prompts asking teens to review their settings including: controlling who can reshare their content, who can message and contact them, what content they can see and how they can manage their time spent on Instagram.
These updates are some of the ways we are working to protect teens on Instagram.
- - -
We’re continuously developing controls to help people personalize their experience on Instagram. Last summer, we launched the Sensitive Content Control so people could choose how much or how little sensitive content to see in Explore from accounts they don’t follow. Today, we’re announcing updates to this control.
Starting today, the Sensitive Content Control will cover all surfaces where we make recommendations. In addition to Explore, you will now be able to control the amount of sensitive content and accounts you see in Search, Reels, Accounts You Might Follow, Hashtag Pages and In-Feed Recommendations. With this update, we’re also applying the technology we use to enforce our Recommendation Guidelines to Instagram's recommendations on Search and Hashtag pages. This update will be available to everyone in the coming weeks.
The Sensitive Content Control has three options, which we’ve renamed from when we first introduced the control to help explain what each option does.
The three options are: “More”, “Standard” and “Less”.
“Standard” is the default state, and will prevent people from seeing some sensitive content and accounts. “More” enables people to see more sensitive content and accounts, whereas “Less” means they see less of this content than the default state. For people under the age of 18, the “More” option is unavailable.
To view your Sensitive Content Control:
- Go to your profile.
- Tap the Settings menu in the upper right corner.
- Tap Account.
- Tap Sensitive Content Control. Here you can decide whether to keep the setting at its default state (“Standard”) or to see more (“More”) or less of some types of sensitive content (“Less”). You can change your selection at any time.
There are additional tools we offer that can help you shape your Instagram experience, including Comment Control, Restrict, Block and Mute. Our hope is to provide more tools over time and make Instagram work better for you.
For more information about Instagram’s Sensitive Content Control, you can visit the Instagram Help Center.
RELATED ARTICLES
Check out more announcements about product
How to filter sensitive content on Instagram
Instagram has a new setting that allows users to filter content that some users may deem upsetting or offensive.
The feature is an expansion of Instagram's "Sensitive Content Control," a product launched last fall that lets users choose how much sensitive content shows up on their Explore page. This new setting extends that control to recommended content in your feed including Reels, searches, suggested accounts, and hashtag pages.
SEE ALSO: Instagram seems to have completely stopped caring about its users
The help center page says Sensitive Content Control "applies to some content that goes against [Instagram's] Recommendation Guidelines, but does not apply to content that goes against [Instagram's] Community Guidelines." In other words, sensitive content doesn't violate the rules, but it might be considered offensive or triggering to some.
That might include:
Content that may depict violence, such as people fighting. (We remove graphically violent content.)
Content that may be sexually explicit or suggestive, such as pictures of people in see-through clothing. (We remove content that contains adult nudity or sexual activity.)
Content that promotes the use of certain regulated products, such as tobacco or vaping products, adult products and services, or pharmaceutical drugs. (We remove content that attempts to sell or trade most regulated goods.)
Content that may promote or depict cosmetic procedures.
Content that may be attempting to sell products or services based on health-related claims, such as promoting a supplement to help a person lose weight.
The new setting gives you the option of choosing "More," "Less," or "Standard," which is the default for users. Each option corresponds to how much sensitive content you want to be filtered out.
To access this setting follow the steps below.
1.
Open Instagram and go to your profile page by tapping your picture at the bottom of the screen. On your profile page, open your account settings by tapping the icon of the three horizontal lines at the top-right2. Next, tap "
Account," and go to "Sensitive content control"Find "Sensitive content control" in your account settings. Credit: Instagram
3. On this page you are given the
three options of how much sensitive content you wish you allow. If you are under 18, you might not be able to choose the option of allowing more sensitive content.A bit of context about the new setting. Credit: Instagram
Choose how much information you want to be filtered by Instagram. Credit: Instagram
4. Choose your setting and hit
confirm.If you don't see this on your account, not to worry. Instagram is rolling it out in stages, so it will eventually be available to all accounts.
Instagram Feature - Confidential Content Management | Instagram update
Manage confidential content on Instagram - the function of enabling or configuring your account settings to display the selected type of content. By disabling or enabling the selected type of content that will be displayed in the "Explore" recommendations.
It was about this feature that Instagram talked about on July 20, 2021 in its official blog in the article “Introducing Sensitive Content Control” (Introduction to managing sensitive content). The Instagram rules have always been changed and supplemented and have always been aimed at improving the operation of the application.
A large number of features related to content restrictions and displaying inappropriate content, disabling or deleting comments . And now, a new functional button through which you can manage the confidential content of your account.
How to enable inappropriate content control - an introduction to managing your privacy
- Open the instagram app and go to your personal page.
- Through the top menu, located in the upper right corner, open the list of settings for your account.
- In the list that opens, select the item - " Settings ".
- After that, in the settings we find the active menu item - " Account ".
- Next, we find the active field - " Potentially inappropriate content filter " and follow the link.
- In the settings we get acquainted with the description and mark the checkbox (tick) in the position you need to display the content.
How to change the "Potentially inappropriate content filter" setting
To cancel or change the preferences in the displayed content. You need to follow the same path as described above.
Go to your account settings and select the Potentially inappropriate content filter field, tick the checkbox (tick) in the place you want to change.
In fact, this function has two options for enabling, it is between them that you switch, depending on which kind of display of content you are interested in.
What each type of inappropriate content control means
The first item is to limit (default)
You may see photos and videos with unpleasant or offensive content .
The second point is to limit more content.
You may see fewer photos and videos with offensive or offensive content .
What each type of inappropriate content control meansStrange extra feature, for content. After all, for example, unacceptable content is already marked with a blurry window and is not shown to users until they press the button to view it. Maybe this is implemented to display more relevant content that can be recommended for each user based on his settings.
And all this only applies to recommendations in which Instagram shows content based on your activity and preferences in photo and video content.
In any case, now you know what a potentially inappropriate content filter is and how it works.
Share
Are there ways to view a private profile on Instagram without a subscription
A private profile is like a closed door: it means that strangers are not welcome here. You can knock on the door by sending a subscription request, and politely wait until they open it. But it’s not a fact that it will be fast and indeed will be - not everyone needs strangers in subscribers. Therefore, there will always be those who want to play insta-spy and watch content in a private profile without subscribing to it.
According to Yandex, more than 14,000 people are interested in this question every month. Most of them look made on the knee and stuffed with advertising, but what the hell is not joking. We are testing one of these services found outside the Russian Internet. The object of the study was the closed profile of the ex-participant of the notorious "House-2".
There will be no link to the service - below we explain why Entering a link to the profile... Wow, it seems he found something! We are already rubbing our hands Oops! Did you expect something else? At the end of our short journey, the spy is offered to click on phishing links that have not even been disguised as something more convincing. By clicking on any of these links, we would be taken to a fraudulent site designed to download confidential data.
But there is another way...
It will help you to see some of the old posts in your closed profile on Instagram*. And then, success is not guaranteed. But in our case it worked. We are talking about sites aggregating Instagram * accounts of famous personalities that duplicate content from the profile. The purpose of such sites is to download traffic from search engines and make money on advertising. Account aggregators appear if you simply enter the name you are looking for in conjunction with the word “Instagram *” into Google:
Insta-clones are periodically blocked, but a holy place is never empty One of these sites displayed posts from a closed account that we checked earlier.
Analysis of a closed profile on Instagram*
The content is clear, there is no way to see it. What about reach and engagement statistics? After all, there are cool services for analyzing profiles on Instagram * like DataFan, which help to understand who is in front of us - a popular influencer or a dummy.
Leah Canarskaya , SMM specialist:
Working with bloggers, I often encounter the need to ask them for statistics. Some bloggers “close their account for ads” temporarily, so their placements are delayed until they open. And as a rule, we go to such bloggers after other people's positive reviews. Permanently closed profiles are not even considered by us for advertising, because it is impossible to see any statistics from them.
