{"id":40886,"date":"2013-05-08T15:01:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T13:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=40886"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:27:31","slug":"how-to-hide-instagram-tags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-hide-instagram-tags\/","title":{"rendered":"How to hide Instagram tags"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Instagram<\/a>Instagram\u2019s latest update<\/a> on Android<\/a> and iPhone<\/a> now allows users to tag photos. This new feature works like Facebook\u2019s photo tagging<\/a>, allowing you to tag other users in an image. Whenever someone takes a picture, they can tag you anywhere within that image, and you’ll receive a notification that they’ve done so. Additionally, images you\u2019re tagged in will appear in a new \u201cPhotos of You\u201d<\/strong> section. As with Facebook, you may eventually find yourself being tagged in an image you don\u2019t want. Thankfully, there are two new options that will let you automatically hide new photos others tag you in and remove ones that are already visible on your profile. We\u2019ve used a Samsung Galaxy Nexus for our testing, but the steps are compatible with other Android and iOS phones.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll show you how to prevent those embarrassing photos from appearing on your feed…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Removing photos from your profile<\/span><\/h3>\n

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You can manually hide tags<\/strong> on individual images. Tap the photo and your Instagram name will appear. Tap your name and a \u201cPhoto of You\u201d<\/strong> pop-up will appear. Tap \u201cHide from My Profile\u201d<\/strong> to remove the picture and whenever someone visits your page that photo will no longer appear.<\/p>\n

Automatically hide photos<\/span><\/h3>\n

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It can take some time to manually remove tags from lots of pictures. Instead there’s an option to prevent \u201cPhotos of You\u201d<\/strong> from appearing. First tap \u201cProfile\u201d<\/strong> in the bottom right corner. Within your profile page tap the new \u201cPhotos of You\u201d<\/strong> tab that’s just below \u201c<\/strong>Following\u201d <\/strong>and \u201cEdit your profile\u201d. On this page tap \u201cOptions<\/strong>\u201d in the upper right corner. In the options menu select \u201cAdd Manually\u201d<\/strong>. Now all new images will need to be approved before appearing on your profile<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Tags can be especially annoying since anyone can tag you, not just those you follow\/your followers. This is compounded by the fact that there’s no means to untag yourself. At the moment, your options are to hide them or report the image. Taking these easy steps can keep your Instagram page free of inappropriate content, but with any luck, Instagram will improve the tagging system with future updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Instagram\u2019s latest update on Android and iPhone now allows users to tag photos. This new feature works like Facebook\u2019s photo tagging, allowing you to tag other users in an image. Whenever someone takes a picture, they can tag you anywhere within that image, and you’ll receive a notification that they’ve done so. Additionally, images you\u2019re … Continue reading “How to hide Instagram tags”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2038,"featured_media":181423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2354],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-40886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectioninstagram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40886","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\/2038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332959,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40886\/revisions\/332959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40886"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=40886"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=40886"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=40886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}