So, they search through their Stories looking for specific people — exes, crushes, enemies. The vast majority of my Instagram followers do this, too, according to a very unscientific poll I took ...

Instagram is opening up its search functionality to allow people to search through other peoples’ followers. Mashable was first to notice the new search functionality in the ‘Followers ...

It's safe to say that mostly everyone's Instagram search history is slightly embarrassing. To keep people from seeing all the handles you search, here's how to clear your history in a few easy steps.

But we have no such picture on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Reddit and so on. Despite search not being the primary interface of these platforms, it’s clear that, with billions of users, a ...

Without a search function, Instagram users are almost entirely reliant on their social ties to provide them with new viral filters. You can’t use the filter until someone else does, or you get ...

Instagram Can Find Misleading Posts—but Won’t Take ... to assess their ages as part of a new Trusted Connections feature that gives users access to unfiltered chatting with people they know.

Few people know Instagram better than Bloomberg News tech reporter Sarah Frier, the author of "No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram." Few people know Instagram better than Bloomberg News tech ...

Your Instagram has a secret “rejection folder” that reveals people who have ignored you. The hidden page takes a bit of digging to find, but it’ll reveal who has snubbed you on social media.

Story Search could open new use cases on Instagram, like checking out the weather, crowd, or what’s going on at a location right now, or seeing what people are doing or thinking about a major ...

Isn’t this “meta.” An Instagram user was scrolling through his feed only to stumble upon AI-generated photos of himself shared by Meta AI, a phenomenon that people have dubbed “nightmarish ...

Another area where Instagram aims to compete with TikTok on search is the recommended searches that appear at the top of the comments section. On TikTok, the suggested search is extracted from ...

And Instagram’s Search & Explore feature is potentially ground-breaking. No more ads – instead, recommended content people want to interact with that leads back to products or services they ...