11 Tips To Make Instagram Work Better For You
It probably goes without saying, but if you want to offer a better, cleaner feed for your followers, you’ll need to start with better pictures in the first place. There are plenty of things you can do to get better images from your phone’s camera—and we happen to have a collection of those tips at the ready. If you’re having issues getting the shot you want, give it a read. You may get some pointers to help change your perspective. When you have the perfect shot, you’ll want to pair it with the perfect filter.
The thing is, most people only use a few filters regularly—and those could be anywhere on your filter list. For faster and more convenient posting, rearrange your filters. The next time you’re posting a picture or video, scroll all the way to the end of the filters list, and then tap the “Manage” option. On the next page, just drag and drop the filters you use most to the top of the list.
As a bonus, if there are filters you don’t like or just never use, you can hide them by unticking their check marks. Welcome to a cleaner, more efficient filter experience. While Instagram’s filters are a key part of the app’s appeal to many, sometimes the effects are overbearing. To adjust the filter intensity, tap it a second time after selecting it. You’ll get a slider that lets you quickly decrease the intensity of the effect.
If you need to make some other quick edits to your images, you can also do that directly from the Instagram app. On the Filters page, tap the Edit button at the bottom. You’ll get a bevy of editing tools and adjustments, including brightness, contrast, and several others. Best of all, you can use these editing tools before or after your filter is applied. As with any social network, there are creepsters on Instagram. If you use the Story feature and don’t want specific people to see it, you can easily hide it from them.
First, head to your Profile page, and open your Settings. How to get to the settings menu. On the Settings page, tap the “Story Settings” option. On the Story Settings page, tap the “Hide Story From” option at the top, and then hide anyone who you’d like to block from being able to see your story.
What you post is only half of the Instagram battle. Having a better experience in your own feed is arguably even more important. We’ve got some tips for you along those lines, too. If there are certain accounts you never want to miss a post from, the best thing you can do is enable notifications for those accounts. To do this, go to that person or brand’s profile, and then tap the menu button (the three dots) in the top right corner.
Choose the “Turn On Post Notifications” and the “Turn On Story Notifications” options, depending on what you want to make sure you don’t miss from that person. Now you’ll never miss your favorite posters’ activity. Stories on Instagram are cool, but sometimes you want to look at a particular image or video clip longer than the automated slideshow lets you. If you need a bit more time when looking at someone’s story, just tap and hold the screen.
Seriously—this prevents the Story from moving to the next slide, so you’re free to spend as much time here as you need. If you’re scrolling through your feed and see something you want to take a closer look at when you have more time (or that you want to reference later), you can privately save posts. Just tap the ribbon-looking icon on the right side underneath the post.
That bookmarks it for later. You can find all your saved posts by jumping to your profile, and then tapping the same ribbon icon just above your posts. You can even organize these posts into Collections if you save a bunch of different types of posts. I just mostly like bikes.
