{"id":202596,"date":"2022-09-01T11:19:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T09:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=202596"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:29:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:29:01","slug":"more-control-over-your-instagram-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/more-control-over-your-instagram-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"You will soon have more control over what shows up on your Instagram feed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, Instagram caused quite an uproar when it updated the <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.en.softonic.com\/articles\/tik-tok-fans-will-either-love-or-hate-this-instagram-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram feed to be more like TikTok<\/a>. Users didn\u2019t like the snapping from one post to the next and quite the campaign started up online with even Kyle Jenner taking a position against the new feed. Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.en.softonic.com\/articles\/instagram-rolls-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quickly u-turned<\/a> and now looks set to continue in the same vein by <strong>offering users more control over their Instagram feeds<\/strong>. Here is what you need to know.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Instagram\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-logo-xl,f_auto\/p\/f96df87d-926f-4954-bf58-f377a573a630\/3327919682\/instagram-apps.61393.13510798887167234.60d66302-6f61-42ba-a10d-da6c9be84e6e.png\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Instagram<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Now<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta has released a <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2022\/08\/testing-ways-to-control-what-you-see-on-instagram\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blog post<\/a> explaining a couple of ways that <strong>Instagram users will be able to exert more control over the content that shows up on their feed and on their Explore tab.<\/strong> These are being able to mark certain posts as content you are \u201cNot Interested\u201d in and also a new feature that will enable users to tell Instagram they don\u2019t want posts with certain words captions or hashtags showing up as suggested posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first feature, which Instagram is currently testing <strong>allows users to tell Instagram what they do and don\u2019t like by marking posts on the Explore tab as Not Interested<\/strong>. Instagram says that it will immediately hide these posts from view on the Explore tab, but it also stands to reason that the social network will make note of that data elsewhere too. We\u2019ll have to wait and see about that latter point, however. There is also a Not Interested control on your feed also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second feature will straight off the bat have a direct effect on your Instagram feed. Y<strong>ou will also be able to flag up content relating to phrases you don\u2019t want to see.<\/strong> Instagram describes the feature as such:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cWe\u2019ll also soon start testing the ability to tell Instagram you don\u2019t want to see suggested posts with certain words, phrases or emojis in the caption or hashtags. Whether you\u2019re seeing something that\u2019s not relevant, or have moved on from something you used to like, you can use this feature to stop seeing content that\u2019s not interesting to you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two very positive moves from Instagram there that should see the trendy app regain some of the love it lost recently when it began copying TikTok. In other recent <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.en.softonic.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram News<\/a>, did you know that <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.en.softonic.com\/articles\/instagram-google-maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram now has a map search feature to rival Google Maps<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Instagram caused quite an uproar when it updated the Instagram feed to be more like TikTok. Users didn\u2019t like the snapping from one post to the next and quite the campaign started up online with even Kyle Jenner taking a position against the new feed. Instagram quickly u-turned and now looks set to continue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/more-control-over-your-instagram-feed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You will soon have more control over what shows up on your Instagram feed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":202597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2354],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-202596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectioninstagram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323273,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202596\/revisions\/323273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202596"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=202596"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=202596"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=202596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}