13 Instagram Hacks You Wish You Knew Earlier

Instagram is a great way to connect with people and as all the things are being done digitally, Instagram can serve as a great platform to grow your business as well. These 13 Instagram hacks will help you to reach out to more people and make your profile look more interesting and engaging.

General Instagram Hacks

1. Change the theme

Instagram gives you an option to choose which theme you would like to do, light or dark. It can be done in Android as well as iOS phones.

Here’s how you can do it:
1. Go to your profile, tap the hamburger menu (3 lines on the top right)
2. Go to settings
3. Click on theme option
4. Click on the theme of your choice

2. Track your screen time

You always tell yourself that you will not waste your time scrolling through Instagram but end up wasting your entire day? This Instagram hack will help you to track your screen time as well as to give you a reminder.

Here’s how you can do it:
1. Go to your profile and click on the hamburger menu
2. Click on your activity option
3. Tap time, here you can see how much hours you spent on Instagram
4. To manage your time, click set daily reminder

Instagram Post Hacks

3. Liked posts on Instagram

Did you like a post but forgot to save it? Don’t worry, you can see it under the section “liked posts”. In fact, you can check out all your liked posts there.

Here’s how you can do it:
1. Go to your profile, tap the hamburger menu
2. Go to settings
3. Click on the Account option
4. Scroll down and click on the post you’ve liked

4. Archives on Instagram

You don’t want some of your posts to be shown in your profile but you also don’t want to delete the post as you will lose the likes and comments on the particular posts, then you can just archive the post.

Here’s how you can do it:
1. Go to your profile and choose a post that you wish to archive
2. Press on the three dots at the top right corner
3. Now click on the archive and your post is no more appear on your feed

Once a post has been archived, you can choose to show it again in your feed by following these steps:
1. Go to your profile and click on the hamburger menu
2. Click on archive option
3. Then click on posts archive
4. Select the post that you want to show on your feed
5. Click on the three dots present in the top right corner
6. Choose the option, show on profile

Instagram Story Hacks

5. How to add music on Instagram

Now you can make your photos and videos more entertaining by adding music to them.

Here’s how you can do it:
1. Click on the camera button and take a picture or video
2. Now click on the sticker icon
3. You can see a music sticker if not, the search for ‘music’
4. Press on the particular sticker and you can choose any music that you would like to add on
your story

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6. How to add filters on existing photos or videos

You might have taken a photo or video from your camera but you think that Instagram filters can enhance it but now you can’t retake the photos or videos, well this Instagram hack will help you to add Instagram filters on your existing photos or videos.

Here’s how you can do it:
1. Add any photo Or video that you would want to use the filter on
2. Click on the smiley face present at the top
3. Select any filter and you are done
The filters are limited on this case but you can still use all the main Instagram filters.

7. How to hide your story from someone

Sometimes you don’t want some people to see your stories but at the same time, you cannot block them or remove them from your followers. In this situation, you can use this Instagram hack to hide your Story from anybody you want.

Method 1
1. Go to your profile and click on the hamburger menu
2. Go to settings, now click on the privacy option
3. You can see a story option on the interactions section, click on that option
4. At the top, it shows how many people you have to hide your story
5. Now you can hide or unhide your story from anyone

Method 2
1. In the story setting, there is an option of close friends
2. You can choose people whom you want to include in your close friends’ list
3. Now you can share your story with close friends and no other person can see that story

Instagram Direct Message (DM) Hacks

8. Turn-off active status

Sometimes you don’t want people to find out whether you are active or not, so simply you can turn off your active status.

Here’s how you can do it:
1. Go to your profile, click on the hamburger menu
2. Go to the settings and select the privacy option
3. Click on activity status and now you can change it however you want

9. Change the chat theme

If you still don’t know about chat theme then, Instagram gives you many themes to choose from for your chats

Here’s how you can do it:
1. Open the chat whose theme you want to change
2. Click on the ‘i’ button present on the upright corner
3. Now click on theme option
4. Select whichever theme you like

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Instagram Account Hacks

10. Switch to a business account

Are you a content creator, influencer, artist or using your Instagram for business activities? This Instagram hack will help you to reach out to more people and they could easily find your account.

Here’s how you can do it:
1. Go to your profile and click on hamburger menu
2. You will find a switch to professional account option, click on it
3. Select a category and click on next
4. Now you have to select whether your account is of creators or business
5. Click on next and you are done. You can switch it back to the personal account whenever
you want

11. Log in to multiple accounts at once

Do you have multiple accounts that you always have to login specifically if you use any new device? Well, now you can log in to just one particular account and have access to all other accounts.

Here’s how you can do it:
1. Go to your profile and click on the hamburger menu
2. Go to settings
3. Scroll down and click on set up multi-account login option
4. Now choose an account (when you login this particular account then the other account will
automatically login)

Instagram Reels Hacks

12. How to make reels longer than 15 seconds

15 seconds may be a really short time to show your creativity on Instagram, this Instagram hack will help you to make reels longer than 15 seconds.

Here’s how you can do it:
1. When you open the reel option, there is an option showing 15 seconds long at the top
2. Click on that option and it will turn to 30, now you can make longer reels
(If your device is not showing this 30-second option then you might have to update your
Instagram)

13. How to get a green screen on reels

Using this Instagram hack, you can use any photo from your gallery to be your reel background.

Here’s how you can do it:
1. Click on camera, go to reels
2. Tap the smiley face which is used for effects
3. Scroll towards the right and go to browse effects
4. Search for green-screen effect, click on try now
5. Now click and add media and select any photo from your gallery that you want as the
background

Comment down below, how many of these did you know about?

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