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How To Clean Up Instagram Suggestions

✎ Key Points:

» You can customize Instagram suggestions by deleting or archiving old posts, hiding uninteresting content from your newsfeed, and muting users to prevent their posts from appearing.
» With the “Least Interacted With” category in your Following list to identify and unfollow unnecessary profiles. Take care to regularly assess your Following list to maintain a curated and enjoyable Instagram feed.
» If you see any toxic content, block the user to remove their posts from your feed. Additionally, mute stories from users you prefer not to see.

How To Clean Up Instagram Suggestions:

Follow the below methods to clear the suggestions:

1. Archive or delete your old post

You can start to clean up your Instagram feed by deleting the old post. However, if you don’t want to lose it permanently, you can just archive the post so that it doesn’t show up on your Instagram profile page. 

Cleaning up posts will help you make your profile look fresh and better than before.

You need to go through your profile page and then consider deleting the posts that you’re not confident about or the ones that have low-quality pictures or embarrassing images of yours. The poor quality of posts can negatively affect your profile and removing those will eventually benefit you in gaining engagement too. 

Here are the steps you need to follow to delete or archive a post:

🔴 Steps To Follow:

Step 1: Open Instagram and log into your account.

Step 2: Get into the profile page of your account and click on the post that you want to archive or delete.

Tap on post

Step 3: Then, click on the three dots icon and you’ll get a bunch of options.

Click on three dot icon

Step 4: You need to either click on the Delete option or on the Archive option to delete or archive that post respectively.

Click on archive and delete

2. Mute people whose posts you don’t want to see

If you don’t want to see images or posts from some users, use the Mute feature of Instagram to hide their posts. When you hide someone’s post, Instagram provides you with options to mute the user. You can either mute the posts from the user or you can mute both stories and posts. If you choose to mute someone’s post on Instagram, then you’ll not see any more upcoming posts from the user on your profile’s news feed. 

Although the user will still be in your Following list, you won’t be able to see the user’s upcoming post on your newsfeed unless you unmute the user again. Instagram won’t notify the user that you’ve muted them on Instagram. 

Here are the steps to hide posts by muting users: 

🔴 Steps To Follow:

Step 1: Open Instagram and log in to your account.

Step 2: On the home page of your profile, you’ll be able to see different pictures and videos one after another.

Step 3: Scroll down the newsfeed and find the post that you’re not interested in.

Step 4: On the right side of the post, you’ll be able to see a three dots icon. 

Click on three dot icon

Step 5: Click on it and then click on Hide. 

Click on Hide

Step 6: Then click on Mute (username). 

Click on Mute username

Step 7: You can either click on Mute Posts or Mute Posts and Story. 

3. Unfollow users with whom you don’t interact

You can also unfollow the users with whom you interact on the list on Instagram. If you want to clean up your feed, you need to get rid of all those users whom you follow for nothing on Instagram. There may be some accounts with whom you’ve never interacted on Instagram. 

On Instagram, it shows the accounts with whom you’ve least interacted under the Least Interacted With category. Use the Least Interacted With a List as a guide to unfollow users.

🔴 Steps To Follow:

Step 1: Open an Instagram account and log in to your account.

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Step 2: Go to your profile page, and click on Following. 

present-in-the-Followers-list

Step 3: Then, you’ll be able to see the Least Interacted With category at the top of the Following list. Click on it.

Least Interacted With

Step 4: Then from the list, click on the Following button next to the names of the user to Unfollow them one after another. 

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4. Block people whose posts are toxic

If there are some users on your Instagram profile whom you find to be negative or toxic, block them out so that your feed can be kept clean from all the negativity. Instagram provides users the option of blocking to remove users from their profile until they unblock them again. It’s the most severe step you can take against a user whom you find to be very toxic. Once you block the user, the user won’t be able to find your profile on Instagram and you won’t see the user’s posts on your newsfeed. 

🔴 Steps To Follow:

Step 1: Open Instagram and log in to your account. 

Step 2: Search for the user you want to block.

Search user

Step 3: From the results, get into the profile of the user.

Step 4: Then click on the three dots icon that’s at the top panel of the profile page next to a bell icon.

Click on three dot1

Step 5: Click on Block, and confirm it by clicking on Block. 

Click on block

5. Like or comment or save only Selected posts

When you’re cleaning up your feed, you also need to keep the posts that you find interesting or helpful. The Instagram algorithm, when you save a post, shows you similar kinds of posts. Therefore, if you find some posts interesting, save them by clicking on the Bookmark icon below the posts. 

Even if you like a post or comment on the posts of some users, Instagram would be able to know that you’re interested in seeing the users’ posts and therefore, it will display the upcoming posts of the user on your newsfeed. 

6. Replace old profile bio

You can make your profile more interesting by changing your profile bio. Find something attractive and engaging for your bio and then replace your old bio with something new. 

Here are the steps you need to follow to edit your old bio and change it to a new one:

🔴 Steps To Follow:

Step 1: Open the Instagram application and enter your login credentials to get into your account.

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Step 2: You need to go to your profile page and then click on the Edit Profile button that’s below your profile icon.

Step 3: Under the Bio header, click on the bio blank.

Click on Bio

Step 4: On the Bio page, enter something attractive.

Step 5: Click on the tick mark icon to save it to your profile.

Click on Tick icon

Step 6: Again on the Edit Profile page click on the tick mark icon to save the changes. 

7. Mute stories

If you want to clean up your Instagram feed, you also need to remove all those stories that you’re not interested in anymore. You need to mute the stories of users about which you don’t care or no longer have an interest.

The stories section lies just at the top of your newsfeed. It usually displays the stories of the users whom you’re following on your profile.  You need to swipe the stories one after that is occurring on the Stories section of your profile page. 

 If you don’t find stories from some users to be interesting, you need to mute them. On the top side of the story, you’ll find a three-dot icon. You need to click on the three dots icon and you’ll get a bunch of options. From the set of options, click on Mute then click on Mute Story. 

8. Follow new people of your interest

After you’re done cleaning your profile feed, you need to set your news feed according to your interests. You need to follow people and tags of your interest so that posts from those users can be shown to your Instagram newsfeed.

You need to search for the user of your interest on the search bar of Instagram and then from the list, get into the profile. Then click on the blue Follow button to follow the user on Instagram. 

You can also search for tags and then get into the Tags section. Click on the Follow button to see more posts related to the particular hashtags. 

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. How to clean up Instagram search suggestions?

You can clean up the Instagram search suggestions on your profile. On Instagram, after you click on the magnifying glass icon to get into the search section, you’ll be able to see a list of suggestions that are based on your previous searches. If you don’t want to see the search suggestions, you just need to click on the x icon next to the names of the users to clean them up one by one.  

2. How to clean up my Instagram page? 

You can clean up the Instagram page by unfollowing the accounts that you interact with the least. You can also delete or archive the old post so that it is not visible to your followers on Instagram. Mute and hide the stories and posts from users that you don’t find interesting.

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