{"id":12742,"date":"2020-11-27T05:30:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T05:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/blog\/?p=12742"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:33:30","slug":"instagram-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/blog\/social-media\/instagram-hacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Hacks: 15+ Tricks to Outshine the Competition [2026 Guide]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Instagram is no more a photo album, but also has a hidden layer of features that makes your profile stand out. However, Instagram’s potential is beyond photo galleries, reels, and scrolling feeds. You may count yourself as an Insta-savvy creator, but be unaware of these hidden Instagram hacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meta.Inc is constantly rolling out new features for content marketers, social media influencers, and content creators. The underlying Instagram tricks in this blog give them an edge. These tricks boost engagement on your stories, streamline DMs, and uncover deep analytical insights into your profile performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Table Of Content<\/h2>\n
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General Hacks for Instagram\n
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Get Notified from Your Favorite Accounts<\/li>\n
Don\u2019t Know the Instagram Account But Want to Search a User<\/li>\n
Use Special Fonts in Your Bio<\/li>\n
Adding Special Characters to Your Bio<\/li>\n
Viewing All the Posts Liked by You<\/li>\n
Viewing the Pictures Without Accidentally Liking Them<\/li>\n
Creating a Collection of Saved Posts<\/li>\n
Scheduling Posts in Advance<\/li>\n
Adding and Managing Multiple Accounts from the Same Device<\/li>\n
Enhancing your Instagram Bio to Get Displayed on the Explore Page<\/li>\n
Upgrading your Instagram Stories Using \u2018Type Mode\u2019<\/li>\n
Posting Content from Other Users to Your Instagram Story<\/li>\n
Creating Stories Highlights to Display Stories for More Than a Day<\/li>\n
Uploading and Browsing Video Content on IGTV<\/li>\n
Hiding, Deleting, or Disabling Comments on Your Posts<\/li>\n
Use the Sequence feature to spark curiosity<\/li>\n
Adding trending audio to your reel<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n
1. Get Notified from Your Favorite Accounts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
You might have at least one such account that you love to follow. Or maybe you are always checking for updates on a profile that you love. Do you want to get notified whenever there\u2019s something new posted by your favorite profile?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can turn on Post Notifications<\/strong> for your favorite accounts so that you receive the push notifications when any content is posted by them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For this, go to your favorite Instagram profile, tap on the Following<\/strong> button. Then tap on Notifications<\/strong> and toggle on notifications for new posts, stories, live videos, or IGTV videos.<\/p>\n\n\n
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If you want to turn off the post notifications, follow the same steps. But check if you have enabled the notifications from the Instagram app in your phone\u2019s settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Enabling notifications on iPhone\/iPad:<\/strong> Go to Settings -> Notifications -><\/strong> select Instagram<\/strong> and turn on the setting to Allow Notifications<\/strong>. Enabling notifications on Android:<\/strong> Go to Settings -> Apps -><\/strong> select Instagram -> App Settings -> Notifications <\/strong>and turn on the option to display notifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. Don\u2019t Know the Instagram Account But Want to Search a User<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Are you looking for a user on Instagram but don\u2019t know its account name? No worries you can still find that user in two ways without logging in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Entering a Username at the End of the Instagram URL<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
The first method discusses users’ searching with the help of a slug ending with \u201cwww.instagram.com\/\u201d. Remember, you can only use specific special characters for your Instagram username, such as underscores or periods in your profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, if you want to check our Instagram username, you can enter the below into your browser’s address bar: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/milesweb\/<\/strong>. With this, you will get to see our Instagram profile and the subtle search bar at the top of the page:<\/p>\n\n\n
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After reaching this page, use the search bar to the left of the “Sign Up”<\/strong> button for browsing users that are already active on the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Googling Users in an Instagram Site Search<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
This is a bit tricky way of searching for users without an Instagram account of your own. Just search the user\u2019s name in a Google site search. It is simply telling Google to search for a term on your choice of the website that is Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For searching a user on the site, open Google search and type the following: “site:instagram.com [name of user].”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can shuffle through the names of people and businesses, keeping all the text before the brackets in your search bar. With this, Google will display results that are active only on Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By keeping all the text prior to the brackets in your search bar, you can shuffle through the names of people and businesses and Google will produce results that live only on Instagram. Check below the site search for MilesWeb<\/strong>. As you can see, Google displays our main profile, our About information, Instagram posts that include the #milesweb hashtag, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n
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3. Use Special Fonts in Your Bio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
By using special fonts in your bio your profile will stand out. No doubt you can add emojis to the bio beneath your profile photo, but there is a restriction on the keyboard and this is where your creativity stops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are some of the basic third-party websites from where you can copy over some more special fonts which aren\u2019t readily found in the Instagram community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Adding a Special Font to Your Bio via Mobile<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
You can add a new font to your Instagram bio from your mobile with a website like LingoJam<\/strong>. Just open the site on your phone, type your preferred bio text in the above text box and the same bio text will appear in different typefaces as in the below image:<\/p>\n\n\n
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Then just tap the font you like and select Copy<\/strong>. Go to your Instagram<\/strong> app-> Profile-> Edit Profile-> Bio<\/strong> and paste the selected font into the empty field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Adding a Special Font to Your Bio via Desktop\/Laptop<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
For editing your Instagram profile on your desktop or laptop, go to Font Space<\/strong> and check for the library of fonts. You can download your favorite and copy it into your bio within a few seconds. At first, find a font that you like and click on the Download<\/strong> font<\/strong> icon next to it as below:<\/p>\n\n\n
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A folder will get open on your desktop, from where you can copy the .ttf file<\/strong> that comprises various versions of this font and paste it to your computer\u2019s clipboard. In some cases, you will need to install the font to use it. Open Instagram.com<\/strong> in your browser and login to your account. Go to Profile -> Edit Profile -><\/strong> paste the downloaded font into the Bio<\/strong> field. Next, you can edit the sample text that appears when you pasted the font to write your bio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. Adding Special Characters to Your Bio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
It is possible to customize your bio with a special font as well as add typical characters that help you or your brand stand unique. However, you won\u2019t find it on your smartphone’s normal keyboard. Such characters include \u00a7, \u2020,<\/strong> or even \u2122<\/strong> if your Instagram name represents a trademarked product name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– How to Add Special Characters from Mobile?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
From your smartphone, install a free app like Character Pad<\/strong>. It includes almost every character and symbol you might need but isn\u2019t available in the 26-letter English alphabet.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Open the app and search for the character you want to add to your bio. Just tap the picture of the symbol you want to add, paste it into their Type text here<\/strong> box and click on the copy icon to copy it. You can also copy it to your computer’s clipboard and copy it from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After copying the symbol to your clipboard, open Instagram<\/strong>, go to your Bio<\/strong>, and click on “Edit Profile”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Hold down your finger on the field of your bio for inserting your special character until the “Paste”<\/strong> option appears. Tap on “Paste”<\/strong> and then click on the tick-mark in the top-right corner to save the changes to your bio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– How to Add Special Characters from a Desktop\/Laptop?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
It is possible to insert special characters and symbols via Instagram\u2019s web client on a laptop or desktop. You can easily do that by using Microsoft Word’s<\/strong> “Symbol”<\/strong> insertion icon.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Choose your preferred symbol or character and copy it to your laptop\u2019s\/desktop\u2019s clipboard. Next, head to Instagram.com<\/strong> and follow the steps mentioned above for pasting your character in your bio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can also Google search the symbol or special character you want and follow the above-mentioned steps for using it in your bio. Remember all the special characters copied from the internet aren\u2019t clean when you use them on Instagram. You might get some of them as corrupted or maybe some won\u2019t appear correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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