Written by Ivana - Reviewed by Tijana Social Media / Instagram
We can learn a lot about a person from their Instagram activity. There are few people who would dare say that they don’t have anything to hide in their Instagram search activity.
Whether we admit it or not, many of us have done some snooping on Instagram on people we shouldn’t have. You may have found yourself in a situation where someone was peeping over your shoulder into your search activity. Or perhaps a friend asked to borrow your phone to search for a particular person on Instagram, and the inevitable search history pops up in your Instagram search.
Or maybe, you have logged into another person’s phone into your Instagram account and want to delete all traces of your logging into their phone. Or perhaps you just don’t want to show your active status for other people to see.
Whatever you are trying to hide or delete from your Instagram activity, you’d be relieved to learn that there is a solution for all the above situations.
Read on to learn how you can delete your activity on Instagram.
To delete your search activity on Instagram via phone, follow the steps:
Alternatively, you can delete specific (most embarrassing) searches from the list by clicking on the “x” symbol next to each of the searches.
Another quicker way to delete your search history is to go directly to the search tool. Here in the top-right corner, you’ll see “See All”. Here you can also delete specific searches, or click on “Clear All” button if you need to obliterate your entire search history on Instagram.
To delete your search activity from the Instagram web browser:
To delete any trace that you’ve logged into Instagram from a specific device:
Instagram registers all our activity, whether we search for someone, open the app, or log into other devices. But luckily, it also provides ways to wipe clean our search or login history and spare ourselves unwanted or embarrassing situations.
Apart from deleting and hiding your activity on Instagram, you can also limit how other users see and interact with your profile and posts. If you don’t want people to see the likes on your posts, you can hide the likes on your already posted and future posts.
Also, you can choose who can and can’t comment on their Instagram posts by restricting someone’s account without blocking them.
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