When we use Instagram, we move between hundreds of profiles and stories. We are clicking from one point to another and sometimes, it is possible that we leave something on the way . That user who uploaded a reel, you left a comment but you forgot to follow. That story you published a few days ago and that you want to recover. Or that crush you stalked for a while and then forgot the name. Whatever your problem, here are the steps you need to follow to check all your Instagram history.
Instagram has several stories and you can check them
Social networks like Instagram are designed to be used from their native app. And, unlike what would happen in a browser, native apps do not keep a step-by-step history of our activity. Therefore, checking what we did a few days ago on Instagram will not be as easy as checking it if we used Google Chrome. Luckily, Instagram has some tools so you can check your activity . The system is not perfect, but it allows you to retrace your steps to find all this that you left behind.
We can check stories, searches, comments, archived posts and replies to Stories.
History of Stories, Publications and Direct
Your Stories can be viewed for 24 hours after publication. After that time, your followers will not be able to see those posts again, but that does not mean they disappear. The same goes for archived posts and live videos. To view past posts, you can go to the Instagram Archive. It is done like this:
- Open your Instagram app and tap on your avatar in the bottom right corner of the screen.
- Now, click on the top right, on the icon of the three horizontal bars .
- We go to File .
- There we will have a history with all the Stories, Direct and publications:
- Archive of Stories : all the Stories that we have not fixed so far will appear. If you have few, you can see them at a glance, but if you have many, you can tap on the central tab, which separates the Stories by date. Finally, if you prefer to search for stories by the location where they were made, the last tab allows you to see a map with those locations. Once the Stories are located, you can mark them to keep them fixed on your profile or add them to a group.
- Archive of publications : here the publications that you had in your feed and have ever archived will appear. You can recover or consult these photos and videos from this section.
- Live history : if you usually do direct on Instagram, you can see them here to rescue them if necessary. Of course, they will be completely removed from your account if you do not save them during the first 30 days.
search history
Everything you search for from the Instagram magnifying glass is registered so that you can consult it later. It can be of great help if you usually visit the same profiles every day or if you found a user, but did not have the desire to follow him.
To see the search history, go to the magnifying glass and tap on the ‘Search’ dialog. Before entering text, a list will be displayed with the recent users and hashtags that you have consulted. You can see the entire list if you tap on ‘ See all ‘.
As you may be imagining, this is a double-edged sword . What would your partner think if he saw out of the corner of his eye the list of profiles that you usually consult? Well, to clear this history, you can tap on ‘ Clear All ‘ in the ‘View All’ menu. You can also delete each individual search by tapping on the X next to each profile.
comment history
The search history is quite well known, since we see it every time we search for something. And the file is somewhat hidden, but it is not complicated that we have ever reached it. But comment history is not a feature that all users know about, and it can save you a lot of time.
Suppose you write a comment on a profile, but you don’t like or follow the user, either because you don’t want to, or because you forget. How can you see that comment again? Imagine that you have forgotten your username. Or, let’s take a worse case. Imagine that you leave a comment, and after a while you find out that you have screwed up. How can you delete your comment as quickly as possible? Well, the comment history is your salvation. You can check it as follows:
- Click on your profile in the bottom right corner of the app.
- Tap on the top right corner, on the ‘ Burger Menu ‘.
- Let’s go to the ‘ Your Activity ‘ section.
- We enter into ‘ Interactions ‘.
Within this section we will be able to consult comments, likes and responses to stories . If you click on a comment, you will be teleported directly to that post, and your comment will be highlighted. You won’t have to browse the list or anything like that to find it. Once located, you can check what you wrote or delete it, if that’s what you want.
Also within this you can see all the likes you have given to others’ posts. The list will surely be endless, but it will allow you to locate that photo or video that you were looking for and that you cannot find through the magnifying glass.
And lastly, we also have the story response history . Here not only the text and the ‘little fires’ are recorded, but it will also show what you answered to surveys, votes and others. Of course, the list does not allow you to delete anything . We can simply sort and filter to see what we did. Nor will we be able to see the stories, since naturally, they will have already expired.
What else is recorded in ‘Your activity’?
The ‘Your Activity’ panel holds a few more secrets. They are the following:
Links
You see an ad, you like it, you open it, but then you don’t open the link in your browser, and you were interested in what was on that link. Have I lost it forever? Well no. It’s inside Your Activity > Links you’ve visited .
recently deleted
It works like a trash can, and all the posts you’ve recently deleted, whether they’re photos, videos, or direct, are stored here.