Monthly Archives: September 2019

How to Specific Photo Sharing on Instagram

Generally speaking, you want to share Instagram photos with as many people as possible. After all, part of the point of the platform is to gain exposure. Others just want to share some of their favorite moments, meals, and other photo-worthy experiences.

However, there are times when a private share is preferable. After all, there are some photos that are meant more for your friends than your parents. During those times, you probably want to limit who you share your photos with. Luckily, Instagram allows you to share photos with specific people or groups of people. Here’s how you do that:

Upload and edit a photo as normal.
On the share screen, choose the “Direct” option.
You can now enter up to 15 people to share your photo with.

If you want to share privately with more than 15 people, you might want to consider hiding certain photos from specific people instead.

How to Approve Tagged Posts on Instagram

Instagram has a separate section for tagged photos and videos. When a person tags you, it will be added automatically to your profile.

Now we all know that tagged pictures aren’t good always. So it’s better to approve tagged posts first. Once you approve them, only then they will be added to your profile.

To enable this setting, do this:

Step 1: Under Instagram Settings, tap on Photos of you.

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Step 2: Disable the Add Automatically option.

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NOTE: You can also hide your existing tagged posts using the Hide photos setting present under Photos of you.

How to Hide Story on Instagram

Instagram offers different privacy settings for posts and stories. While you cannot change the privacy of individual posts, you can customize the privacy of stories. That is, you can hide stories from specific followers.

In order to hide stories, follow the steps:

Step 1: Launch Instagram Settings and tap on Story Controls.

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Step 2: Select the followers from whom you want to hide stories under the Hide story from option.

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How to Stop Direct Messages (DM) on Instagram

Everyone on Instagram can message you, whether they follow you or not. However, messages from people other than your followers are kept under a separate folder (Requests) in DM.

While Instagram doesn’t let you stop DMs for normal messages, you can restrict DM for stories. Instagram offers three settings for message replies in stories: Everyone, People you follow, and Off.

Here’s how to set it.

Step 1: Open Instagram Settings by tapping the three-dot icon (Android) and gear icon (iPhone) on the profile screen.

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Step 2: Tap on Story controls and under Allow message replies, select the preferred option.

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How to Turn Off Activity Status and Green Dot on Instagram

Few months back, Instagram launched the dreadful Activity status feature. Basically, it shows the last active time of people on Instagram with whom you have had direct conversation. If that wasn’t enough, recently they introduced the online status indicator. When a person is online, you will see a green dot next to their name in Direct Messages (DM).

Here are the steps to turn them off.

Step 1: Go to your profile and tap the three-dot icon or the gear icon.

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Step 2: Scroll down and tap on Activity status. On the next screen, disable Show activity status. This will turn off activity status and green dot both.

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Profile Privacy Tips on Instagram

This isn’t really a “trick” or setting so much as it is a piece of general advice.

There’s a very good chance you have too much information on your Instagram profile. While the social media age sees people share more information than ever, it’s not always wise to share as much as you might be sharing.

For instance, how easy would it be for someone to find your house from your Instagram profile? Are you constantly tagging your location near your home? What about the location of your job?

The fact of the matter is that online stalking can become real-life stalking very easily. If you want to greatly reduce the chances of someone finding you IRL, be very careful about how much information you share about common locations. Generally speaking, watch your tags, watch how many photos you share, and be careful of how much personal information you reveal.

How to Find Trending or Popular Instagram Hashtags Using Keyword Tool?

Depending on your requirements, you can use Keyword Tool to generate a list of popular and trending long-tail Instagram hashtags.

To use Keyword Tool for Instagram hashtags, just enter a word related to the topic of your post into the search box and press enter. Within seconds, you will see a list of hashtags that you can use for your posts or stories.

You can enter different related words or synonyms in the search box to make the tool generate more hashtag suggestions. Besides the hashtags suggestions, Keyword Tool will show you the number of posts that Instagram has for every hashtag.

If you want to find only popular or trending Instagram hashtags, you can use “Filter Results” from the drop-down menu to get Keyword Tool to show you hashtags that have a particular number of posts. By using filters, you can choose either the most or the least popular hashtags depending on your needs.

How to Facebook Sharing on Instagram

Facebook and Instagram are eternally linked. Not only is Instagram owned by Facebook, but sharing Instagram photos via Facebook is very common. However, recent revelations have left people wondering how much they should actually share via Facebook. Even before the Facebook data scandal, there were times when you just don’t want every Instagram photo to go on your Facebook page.

To be honest, there are many good reasons not to automatically link your Facebook and Instagram accounts. Keeping the two mutually exclusive allows you to have much greater control over your Instagram Privacy privacy. To keep your online profiles separate, just follow these steps.

  1. Open Instagram and go to your profile.
  2. Select “Settings.”
  3. Go to “Linked Accounts” and disable the Facebook option.

You can also disable Instagram like sharing through Facebook. To do so, just go to “Share Settings,” choose Facebook, and disable “Share Likes to Timeline.”

How to Manual Tag Approval on Instagram

Here’s an interesting feature. As you probably know, people can tag you on Instagram. As you probably also know, there are times when you don’t want to be tagged on Instagram. Embarrassing photos are one thing, but there are even times when a picture can violate your Instagram privacy in a real way.

You can ask the person to remove the photo, but you can also just untag yourself from the picture. It’s a useful way to decrease the chances of someone finding it just by using your name. Whatever your reason, untagging yourself is incredibly simple.

  1. Find the photo in question.
  2. Tap on your profile name in the tag.
  3. You should be able to select “Hide From My Profile.”

It’s also possible to choose “Remove Me From Photo” to remove the tag completely. You can also choose the “Photos of You” section, choose settings, and “Add Manually.” This will prevent others from tagging you themselves.