Want to delete your Instagram search history or remove annoying search suggestions? Luckily, you can do it quite quickly. You can clear your recent searches all at once, remove individual profiles from your search bar and manually hide certain suggestions. Good to know: clearing your search history does not mean Instagram instantly forgets all your suggestions. Instagram also looks at what you view, like, follow and which accounts you interact with.<\/p>\n
That is why it helps to not only clear your history, but also understand why some names, hashtags or places keep coming back. This gives you much more control over what you see when you open the search bar.<\/p>\n
Your Instagram search history is made up of recent searches you have made. This can include profiles, hashtags, music, locations or topics you have searched for. As soon as you tap the search bar, Instagram may show these searches again.<\/p>\n
Sometimes that is useful, because you can quickly go back to a profile or hashtag. But it can also be annoying. Maybe you do not want someone next to you to see what you searched for. Maybe you no longer want to see an old search. Or maybe you simply want a cleaner search page without old names and irrelevant results.<\/p>\n
You can delete your search history in two ways:<\/p>\n
The fastest way is usually through the search page itself. This works almost the same on iPhone and Android.<\/p>\n
Do you not want to delete everything? Then you can also clear one specific search.<\/p>\n
After removing it, you will no longer see that search in your recent search list. Just keep in mind that if you search for that account or hashtag again later, Instagram may save it again.<\/p>\n
Instagram sometimes changes menu names. If you do not see the option right away in the search bar, you can also check your settings. The path can differ slightly per account, but it usually works like this:<\/p>\n
If you use multiple Instagram accounts, check carefully which account you have selected. Search history is cleared per account. You can also find Instagram\u2019s official explanation in the Instagram Help Center about deleting search history<\/a>.<\/p>\n Do you use Instagram in a browser on your laptop or computer? Then you can also remove your recent searches there.<\/p>\n The desktop version is especially useful if you want to go through many searches. On a larger screen, it is easier to see which profiles or hashtags you want to keep and which you would rather remove.<\/p>\n Search suggestions are the profiles, hashtags, locations or topics that Instagram suggests before you even finish searching. They look similar to your search history, but they are not exactly the same.<\/p>\n A search is something you typed in yourself before. A search suggestion can also appear because Instagram thinks it matches your interests. For example, because you often view a certain profile, follow similar accounts or have interacted with certain content.<\/p>\n Want to get rid of a specific suggestion? You can usually remove it directly from the search bar.<\/p>\n Instagram will then hide that suggestion from view. Sometimes a similar suggestion may still come back later, especially if you look at the same account again or keep opening similar content.<\/p>\nDelete search history on a computer<\/h3>\n
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Remove search suggestions on Instagram<\/h2>\n
Remove individual search suggestions<\/h3>\n
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What is the difference between search history and search suggestions?<\/h3>\n