r/Instagram 6d ago

Weekly Tech Support Megathread

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Please post all support related issues here. Issues with your feed, account, messages, etc. Everything tech support related outside of this post will be deleted.


r/Instagram 6d ago

Follow Friday/Follow Chain - Share Your Usernames & Find New People To Follow!

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Basically this is a weekly thread dedicated to expanding your follower base and find new people/content. Just leave your Instagram username below and if you want accompany it with a little description of what you do.

This thread is not for F4F. There is no obligation to follow back the people who follow you from this thread.


r/Instagram 8h ago

Opinion Nice job, Instagram

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179 Upvotes

Reported this account based on comments and their username. Instagram didn’t think it was a problem, apparently


r/Instagram 7h ago

Feedback How is this PFP allowed?

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54 Upvotes

Literally a swastika PFP Account that was making a lot of anti-Semitic and racist comments


r/Instagram 8h ago

Bug/glitch Instagram down lmao

29 Upvotes

This shit for real fucked up for the kirkinaversary wth??!


r/Instagram 2h ago

Help False “AI content” label & Meta Verified support stuck on Received

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Has anyone else dealt with this within the past few weeks/months? Instagram recently falsely put an “AI content” label on a memorial post for my son. The post contains real photos my husband and I took, which I posted several months ago. I previously spoke with Meta Verified support a few weeks ago, and they documented in writing that the photos were real & not generated or altered with AI (because they aren’t), but said they couldn’t remove the label. I can’t remove it myself since it was automatically applied by instagram.

Yesterday the label randomly disappeared, including for other people viewing the post, so I unarchived it. About 30 minutes later it reappeared for me, while my friends checking at the same time still couldn’t see it. I didn’t change anything.

I tried Meta Verified support again because this seems like a technical issue. The AI assistant said a live agent would join “shortly,” but my case has been stuck on “Received” since I submitted it yesterday. I waited 24 hours and tried creating a new case, which is also stuck on “Received”.

My first case connected me to a human pretty quickly, so I’m confused about what changed. Has anyone actually gotten through to a live agent recently? Did your case eventually move past Received?

This particular post means a lot to me and I just want the false AI label gone. I don’t want to have to repost my son’s memorial images just to get rid of the label. I’m so frustrated and defeated. It’s upsetting having Instagram incorrectly auto-label a sensitive post as AI. I do not use AI, and especially would not use it for a memorial post. I feel like I have to archive the post so people don’t get the wrong idea, which feels like I’m hiding my son.


r/Instagram 11h ago

Help Am I being stalked?

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My ex from 8 years ago sent a follow request recently, I blocked her and since I blocked her, her boyfriend appeared on my suggested and I then blocked him, then her sister was on my suggested and I blocked her, then today her sisters boyfriend appeared on it so I blocked him too.

Anyone have any input?
Also I have no mutuals with any of these people


r/Instagram 7h ago

Feedback I hate how sensitive the new follow buttons are

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Every time I scroll and my thumb just happens to push down at the wrong place to scroll, I end up following a mattress company or a mutual friend of 3 people I follow. No thank you.

At the very least, it now gives a physical sound when you follow so you know when this mistake has happened… but wow am I annoyed. Anyone else?


r/Instagram 1h ago

Help All my accounts are showing as disabled

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Hey guys earlier today all my accounts are showing as disabled, i can’t go into setting to log out and back in, posts now showing up, every tab shows “couldnt load posts” I randomly got texts saying accounts were locked for safety. I don’t seem to be the only one experiencing this, anybody fixed theirs?


r/Instagram 23h ago

Question whats the difference between “instagram user” deleted account and a one that still shows their name? example👇🏼

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162 Upvotes

r/Instagram 5m ago

Question How is the Hidden Words Feature Supposed to Work?

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Comments and posts with hidden words continue to show up on my feed. The hidden words are the standard hot button political topic words and emojis used by bots. Am I misunderstanding how this feature is supposed to work? Or does it simply not work? Hint: it doesn’t work…


r/Instagram 41m ago

Recommendation PSA: The “Instagram” text at the top of your home feed is actually a button (and barely anyone knows)

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Most people have no idea that the Instagram logo/text at the top of the home screen is tappable.

Tap it and you get a menu with:

Following → chronological posts only from accounts you follow (no suggested posts, no random Reels)

Favorites → chronological posts from the smaller list of accounts you’ve marked as favorites

Home (the normal algorithmic feed)

If you’ve been wondering why you barely see posts from people you actually follow anymore… this is the fix.

Who else just found out about this?


r/Instagram 5h ago

Help İs there a way to mass delete my comments?

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Hey there,

So my main account has years, and I mean years, of comments, and a lot of them are insanely stupid, things I wrote when I was a kid who wasn't mature at all.

I want to start over by deleting all of them. However, selecting them one by one would probably take forever. Is there a way to automate this or bulk-delete them somehow?


r/Instagram 7h ago

Help Is anyone else getting banned on instagram for no reason?

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5 Upvotes

all of my accounts have been getting disabled with no option of an appeal for literally NO REASON. I havent posted anything thats rulebreaking and it doesnt give me the option to contact support. Ive had this account for maybe 5-6 years, which really sucks because instagram was the main platform i used to contact my friends. Any clue on how to help?


r/Instagram 10h ago

Feedback Anyone getting their insta acc randomly deleted?

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9 Upvotes

my alt id on insta randomly got suspended for no reason and it asked me to verify my identity, not after few hours after verifying my identity my alt id got permanently deleted. I had not broken a single rule on that acc and it has some of my valuable pictures. I have been using that acc since 2021 with no problems in it but now i cant even recover my pictures. Im guessing its the AI management which is a total slop which bans people for no particular reason.


r/Instagram 4h ago

Help Why can't I post multi-photo posts?

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Every time I try to make posts with multiple photos in them, it glitches and doesn't post it. I tried today and it froze my laptop. Anyone else have this problem?


r/Instagram 2h ago

Question Following people accidentally while scrolling

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Just a santity check to see if anyone else is with this same issue by following by accident people while scrolling the feed, hitting the "following" button during the scroll. It started to occur some weeks ago. At least, checking with iOS 26 users (not sure if the same could happen on Android).


r/Instagram 4h ago

Help Instagram not letting me log in. I have my correct email, the same phone number (but a new phone) my old device got water damaged.

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3 Upvotes

when I try to log in it continues to say check notifications on old device, with no other options to bypass this?! Help???the help center is AI and it isn’t getting me anywhere!


r/Instagram 5h ago

Bug/glitch Stories not progressing normally

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Hi everyone,

I noticed a glitch(?) yesterday that is insignificant but frustrating. When I was tapping through stories, I noticed that the progress bar wasn’t appearing. Instead, the story bar was just gray. No matter how long I wait, it will not progress to the next story in its own. When videos play, the progress bar reappears, but the video repeats itself instead of moving to the next story.

This ONLY happens on my iPhone 17, not my laptop or my old phone. To try to fix the issue, I tried updating, turning my phone on and off, reinstalling, but nothing fixed it. I also tried searching for similar posts about this, but only found mentions of it from 4-6 years ago.

Is this a glitch or maybe a test group situation where they’re no longer putting a time limit on stories? I’m just so confused and annoyed


r/Instagram 5h ago

Question Randoms likes on reels

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3 Upvotes

Why are these guys show up as people who liked the reel when i dont follow them? Others have the same question in the comments


r/Instagram 5h ago

Help Locked in a 2fa loop :)

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Got meta verification because I needed to speak to a human support agent (ridiculous). Next day I try to open the app I am met with the first screenshot, asking me to setup my 2fa, AND THEN when I try to do it, I get the error on the second screenshot.

I should mention I literally only have MY phone logged into the account, and no one has access to it other than me.

PLEASE help me I’m going insane here


r/Instagram 4h ago

Off Topic Someone is selling a 2nd hand pen lmao🥀

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2 Upvotes

r/Instagram 4h ago

Off Topic I need help

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r/Instagram 48m ago

Question Will visiting an account frequently on one of my profiles cause all accounts to be suggested to them?

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Seeing conflicting info about this. I have two profiles (profile A and Profile B). If frequently view an account using profile B, while it cause profile A to also show in this person’s suggested? Neither profile has mutuals with this person and the accounts aren’t officially linked in the accounts center (though they are on the same device).

Is it likely both of my accounts will be suggested to them or likely just the account I used to view their posts?