Consider closed profiles

Most Instagram users live out their private lives by posting hundreds of photos and videos of their private lives, sharing their thoughts, feelings, personal and even intimate experiences. But such openness often leads to negative consequences, prompting individuals to close their accounts.

Instagram allows only approved subscribers to view closed profiles. For everyone else, published photos and videos, stories and broadcasts, hashtags, and geolocation tags become inaccessible. Only a personal account can be closed (a business profile needs to be converted to such a profile beforehand).

Features of closed accounts

It is worth bearing in mind that the privacy settings in Instagram apply only to this social network. For example, if a user shares any publication from Instagram on Twitter, then in the latter it can be viewed by all subscribers of the account exactly on this resource (that is, all people from whom the account owner does not hide his content in this social network).

However, closed accounts have other features:

• To view publications in a closed profile, another user must send a subscription request, which the account owner will confirm;
• Directed requests are displayed in the "What's New" section, where the account owner can accept or reject them;
• to hide entries from the person who signed up for the account before it became closed, the profile owner must separately block the unwanted user;
• Private account holders can add hashtags to posts, but they will not appear in the shared feed on that hashtag page;
• comments and likes left by the owner of a private profile under public publications are visible to all users viewing this content;
• the user mentioned under the photo and video in the closed account, if he/she is not an approved subscriber, does not receive a corresponding push notification and message in the "What's new" tab.

The ability to use Direct, that is, directly send media files, text messages, hashtags, GPS coordinates, and more, is retained for users who are not signed up for a closed account.

More about privacy on Instagram

If a user of a resource on a third-party site logs into their Instagram account to view their own content, the service automatically accesses all of the content published on their profile. You can disable the display of photos and videos in Google search by revoking access for a third-party site in your Instagram profile settings. It may take some time for the content to be removed from the search engine results (until it is re-indexed).

It is important to remember that as long as third-party resources have access to the Instagram account, the content published in the profile will be displayed in search engine results (even after deleting the social network account). Therefore, if a user seeks to hide all information about himself, it is not enough to close or delete his Instagram profile. You also need to clear the list of sites that are allowed access to personal information.

How to access a closed Instagram profile

In a closed Instagram profile, everyone who is not an approved follower can only see the user's avatar (main photo), nickname, and maybe a few lines of information about the account owner. But there are several ways to get around this social network blocking.

Creating a second account

To see more, you have to send a request to the account owner and wait for your subscription to be approved. But you don't have to do it from your main account. You can always create a fake profile, add photos from public sources, and fill in basic information to make the new one look more natural. You can also pick up subscriptions with similar hobbies, make a page of a store or company whose scope of work will interest the target user.

It is recommended to create female accounts, as according to sociological surveys, the face of a young girl on her avatar is much more trustworthy than a photo of a young man or an adult male.

Using search engines

As we wrote above, even from a closed profile some content is displayed in search engine results. According to the developers of the social network, third-party resources not directly associated with Instagram are to blame. For example, you can sometimes find photos from a closed account using Google Images by entering the nickname of the desired user in the search bar.

Help from friends

Another way to view your Instagram profile without adding it to your subscription is to ask your friends for help. If you have mutual acquaintances with the owner of the target account, they can try to subscribe to the page you want. And then just show you the publications of the person of interest.

In addition, you can subscribe to the accounts of people who, in your opinion, should be in the closed profile's approved subscriptions. After that, in the "Actions" section of your page, you can see what content these users are liking. Most likely there will be photos or videos from the account you're interested in.

Monitoring user pages in other social networks

Viewing accounts on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks can also provide a lot of interesting information about an Instagram user. After all, most people publish photos and videos of their personal life not on one site, but on all resources at once. Therefore, a profile on another social network is sure to find at least some of the content from a closed Instagram account.

Viewing a closed Instagram profile using a third-party app

All of the above methods have two significant drawbacks:

• their implementation requires a large amount of time;
• None of them can guarantee that you will be able to view your target Instagram profile.

If you're looking for a quick and efficient method to get the information you need, it's better to turn to third-party resources that can provide you with targeted information in minutes.

InsTracker allows you to get all the data published on the account for the entire time of its existence, including monitoring activity in real time:

• see old posts and keep track of new ones in your profile;
• view the likes, comments, and other actions of the account owner;
• to learn about new Stories and live broadcasts, see published (including deleted and archived) broadcasts and stories;
• read incoming and outgoing messages, instantly learn about new emails (received and sent);
• retrieve username and password for authorization in the profile even after it has been changed by the account owner.

In addition to basic information, InsTracker also provides authorization data (username and password) to log in to the target account. That is, after viewing a closed Instagram profile, you can get up-to-date information at any convenient time by simply logging in to the desired account.

Today InsTracker is considered the most convenient way to view hidden information in a social network and provides its users with the maximum amount of information about the people they are interested in.