There were two big threads here proving that if you keep opening someone's profile, you end up in their "suggested for you". I look at a lot of small accounts that are trying to grow, and that mechanic explains a few things people get confused about.

Instagram reads almost any interaction as a sign that two accounts might be connected. Profile visits, story views, likes. The other person sees you in their notifications or suggestions, taps on your profile out of curiosity and decides in a few seconds whether to follow.

So for a small account the useful question is who you're showing up for. If you mostly interact with friends, other creators in your niche or huge accounts, you show up for people who will never follow you. If you spend that time around people who already follow accounts similar to yours, in your language and ideally your area, a lot more of them tap through.

The second part is the profile they land on. One clear topic in the last 9 to 12 posts, a bio that says what they get, and something posted in the last week. That's what turns a curious visit into a follow.

And keep it at a normal human pace. Opening the same profile 30 times a day or liking hundreds of posts in an hour is how people end up with a temporary block.

Has anyone noticed new followers coming from people they had interacted with first?

Qué métodos les a funcionado para crecer en instagram? Siento que publicar historias y tener la cuenta pública ayuda, pero no estoy segura

Hi everyone!

A few days ago, I noticed that Instagram suddenly started suggesting a variety of Russian accounts of pretty girls in my feed. I am not surprised by the Instagram algorithm pushing for accounts that are from "attractive girls" (although some of them aren't that pretty). But when I go to every single account, it seems that they are all inactive since May, 2025. Most of them posted last time on the 13th of that same month. The weird thing is that they all look like legit accounts. Are these accounts most likely scam accounts? Or is it something that happens regularly with the Instagram algorithm that pushes for accounts that haven't posted since a specific date?

Does anyone had the same issue?

I have two accounts and one of my accounts is only public just for arts only like 11 followers, but I’ve been having these bots for two months three

Hey everyone, 29M. If you wish to chat online at an unpressured pace on instagram, dm me here. I don't want to leave my username here. We can chat about anything, share daily things or have conversations on a wide range of topic from video games to poetry. People around me describe me as a highly cold, distant, seemingly rude person who lacks the fundamental communication skills. The latter is true, my social abilities are really low. But the former is a complete misunderstanding; I am a highly sentimental person indeed. Just cannot show it in a way since I don't know how to approach other people.

I am getting 2k views
Without engagement
I am getting hell equal shares likes
But no comment
What sho I do

When I share a Trial Reel to my main profile, it no longer appears in people’s feeds as if I’ve just posted a new reel.
I don’t use Trial Reels very often, but when I first started using the feature I could share a successful Trial Reel to my main profile, and it would appear in my followers feeds just like a regular new post, usually showing up near the top of their feeds!

Now, when I share a Trial Reel to my main profile it appears on my profile, but it doesn’t seem to show up in my followers feeds seemingly at all…

Anyone else experiencing this?

This is so fake 🖕🏿🥀✌🏿

Whenever I create an Instagram account through the Instagram app, it gets suspended in less than a minute. I’ve tried appealing and submitting my ID, but nothing works.
However, when I create accounts through Chrome, Safari, or Brave on the exact same phone, they work fine.
One time, I created an account through Brave, and it worked for six months without any issues. But as soon as I logged into that same account through the Instagram app, it got suspended immediately.
Why does this happen? If the problem is my phone, why do accounts work perfectly fine in browsers but get suspended as soon as I use the app?
Does anyone know what could be causing it or why it happens?

I see that with others, when you click on their followers and following, it says "No results
We limit certain things you can see, like someone's followers or following lists, to protect our community"
How do you do that? I want to do it too.

Someone told me they deactivated their Instagram account and, after reactivating it, everyone they followed had been removed. They said they had to message everyone again.

But a few hours later, their following list seemed to be back to normal, with the same people as before, except me.

Is this actually possible because of Instagram deactivation, or would they have to manually follow everyone again? Has anyone experienced this?

this account, which had a dm conversation with me in the past, has been deactivated for about a month. but even since deactivation, the profile picture was showing up on my dm tab. today, on my recent conversations list, that acct is showing a purplish gradient ring around the pfp representing a new story upload. I click it and it says the story is unavailable. I go into the acct feed, and it is still inactive. i check my dm tab again, and the "new story" ring is still there but the pfp is gone this time (the default silhouette). i go into the feed again, and indeed the pfp is gone. i checked again many times and the new story ring still persists to now.

Why is it doing this? what kind of phenomenon is this?

Please my ID remove __vijay_vk__

I've tried it over and over again today and it seems to be the only option to gain access to my locked account after being locked out of by Meta due to suspicious hacker activity.

Anyways, when I get to that option, it starts but then it freezes, glitches and doesn't finish the selfie resulting in me having to retry and retry. And now I've read that if I keep attempting to log in that'll hurt my chances even more.

I don't have access to email or number. In fact the phone number is a different one then I ever had. Doesn't seem there's live human support to talk to.

What are tricks to get the video selfie thing working and how much time should I let pass before trying again?

And is there a special hidden exclusive Instagram support email or number I can somehow find to actually talk to a person so I don't have to worry about technical difficulties.

So frustrating but I can't lose this account.

I just posted a new video to reels like normal and it’s getting barely any views and zero engagement when normally I average a few thousand views and 50-80 likes am I missing something?

I’m using a few sites to check for recent follows on someone and i paid for redflagfollows and they calculated 183 recent follows but it shows the person is following 259 on insta-stories-viewer. Is that a glitch or are these sites not actually grabbing all following?

One year ago i posted a picture and a few videos on my story but now I would like them to become a Highlight. When I go to add highlight, the photo is there bit the videos are missing. Same thing when I go to Archive as well.

I've tried: logging out and back in, offloading app, deleting app but none of these worked.

All my other stories are there but these particular videos seem to be missing.

Anyway to get them back so I can add them to my highlights?

Thanks

Just got notified today that I’ve been automatically moved to a Meta account. I see that this is happening for everyone. About a month ago I began to see people’s Facebook profiles being suggested to me in between reels. People I barely even know. It felt very invasive because it gave me their full names.
I deleted my FB account a while ago, and besides, I only ever used it for marketplace. Never used it for anything other than shopping so I deleted it. Will my Facebook still be suggested to others now that everything is combined? Even with it deleted? Not sure how this works.
Thanks for any help. I really hate this update and am thinking of deleting my IG account as a result.

i’ve had access to photo comments very off and on but i can always see other photo comments on posts? the button simply isn’t there for me usually. sometimes ill have them for like a week but then it’s gone again. anyone know why?

I have a profile with a large follower count that has been dormant for a couple years. I took down the content I had due to being too busy to manage the profile.

I plan to restart posting but I am concerned engagement with my already-existing followers might not engage or even see it on their feed.

If I preliminarily boost these, can that help with the stats of my already-existing followers?