Social networks want to keep us well trapped and that we spend as much time as possible within their applications. On Instagram, for example, when we are scrolling our feed , it is invaded by posts from accounts that we are not even following .
Something that may be good at first to meet interesting profiles, but when you already follow more than 500 Instagram accounts, these types of posts on your home screen can be quite annoying.
How to turn off suggested posts on Instagram
This technique of showing suggested posts is nothing more than another Instagram “trick” to keep us a few more minutes inside its app. A rather non-negotiable technique it seems, since the application does not allow you to completely disable this feature .
Luckily, there are a couple of solutions that we can apply. Let’s see how they work.
Remove a specific suggested post
The lightest action that we can apply is to remove a certain post that we do not like from the feed .
- Enter the Instagram app for Android / iOS.
- Locate the suggested post you want to remove from your home page.
- Click on the 3-dot iconthat you will see at the top right of the publication.
- Select “I’m not interested”.
- The publication will automatically disappear and you will not see it in your feedagain .
After doing this, Instagram will inform us that the publication has been hidden. It will also allow us to take additional measures by showing us two new options:
- Do not suggest posts from this person: If we select this option, Instagram will not suggest any post from this account again.
- This publication has bothered me: If the publication displeases us or causes us rejection. An option similar to the report button.
You can repeat this process as many times as you want with all the suggested posts that you are not interested in. Of course this won’t turn off suggested posts from your feed , but it will at least get rid of a lot of unwanted content.
Choose a custom view for your feed
This option is the most radical and effective, and it will help us to completely eliminate the suggested posts from Instagram. There are many people who do not know, but the Instagram post feed can be modified .
Currently the Instagram app offers 3 different types of feeds on the home screen:
- The standard feed: It is the feed that is loaded by default.
- The “Following” feed: Only shows posts from accounts you follow.
- The “Favorites” feed: Only shows posts from accounts marked as favorites.
To switch from the standard feed to one of the other available feeds, simply click on the Instagram logo that you will see in the upper left of the screen, open the drop-down menu and select the desired option.
Both in the “Following” feed and in the “Favorites” feed, no suggested post is shown. Objective achieved!
Remember that you can add an account to your favorites list by clicking on the 3-point icon that you will see at the top of the publication. Then, among the available options, tap on “Add to favorites”.
Finally, if you have problems adding an account to favorites, keep in mind that you can also do it from the main page of that user (click on the “Following” dropdown and there you will see the option to add to favorites).
