How to Reset Your Instagram Feed

Reset recommended Feed content

Go to your profile, open the menu, and choose Content preferences.

Select Reset suggested content and confirm after reading the notice.

This does not remove followed accounts or delete posts. Suggested content begins personalizing again from your future activity.

Use Following and Favorites feeds

Tap the Instagram wordmark or feed selector at the top of Home when available and choose Following to see recent posts from accounts you follow.

Add important accounts to Favorites to give them higher priority and access a focused Favorites feed.

These views provide more direct control but may still differ slightly by app version and region.

Remove signals you no longer want

Unfollow accounts that no longer fit your interests, or mute posts and Stories when you want to stay connected without seeing every update.

Choose Not interested on irrelevant suggested posts and avoid prolonged viewing of content you do not want repeated.

Clear obsolete searches and review Hidden Words and sensitive-content preferences.

Fix a feed that will not refresh

Check the connection, force-close Instagram, reopen it, and update the app.

On Android, clearing Instagram's cache can remove damaged temporary files. On iPhone, offloading or reinstalling is the closest system-level alternative.

Check whether Instagram is experiencing a wider outage before changing account settings.

Build healthier feed habits

Follow a smaller set of consistently useful accounts instead of adding many sources at once.

Use Save for valuable posts and periodically review the accounts that dominate your attention.

A recommendation reset works best when followed by clear, consistent choices rather than rapid mass engagement.

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