Instagram 12+

I have about 3-4 accounts that I monitor daily and to monitor them daily and find that one account has updates that another doesn’t, finds me a great deal of confusion. This situation being the main account that I use, updates on there are almost never up to date with everyone else’s. I’ve already done the log out, log back in thing, update the app, (obviously) etc etc etc. Nothing has worked. I’ve even taken personal time to look to Google for help but it really doesn’t give much help either. Now, though I’m excluded from some updates, I am accessible to some which confuses me cause why limit me to some updates but then give me new and profound updates that you guys just coded? I’m not getting the message. So with that being said, for example, I have the update where you can add a note to any reel of your choice and your mutuals can see it. But aside from that, and adding music to my notes, which don’t even show up on my profile, like others have. And which I am accessible to that update only on my least used accounts. Which I find strange. Another thing, not only do I not have that specific update, I don’t have the update of the new fonts, I never once got the update to view polls in notes, I can never “heart” someone’s note, nor can I tag someone, etc. So long term outlook would be an explanation on why this is happening, and how it can be fixed. Thanks. 🤍

I used to love Instagram as a way to keep in touch with my family and friends. Especially during this time of being apart. However, now with the unbelievable amount of ads it is nearly impossible to see what I want to see (my family and friends) and due to the new - “you’re all done” feature I constantly miss posts and here is why: If I open my feed and look at some posts from friends, I can see there are several I haven’t scrolled to look at yet, I then click over to open a message, when I look back at Instagram those posts are gone and I cannot see them again unless I can possibly remember who posted something and to individually look at each of their pages. I HATE that feature that is now in Instagram. To me the benefit of the posts is I can always just scroll down to review them. Now each post is pretty much a story, see it once and it’s gone forever and now I have ENDLESS ads. Once you have viewed your new posts you can’t see them again all you see are ads. Don’t get me wrong, I do like SOME ads, they are personalized and helpful. But I’d rather they show up only in my stories than on my feed. I’m probably going to delete Instagram as soon as I can find a different way to see friends and family’s posts and not miss any because of the inundation of ads that is here. Intagram used to be about connecting, now it is just advertising.

Instagram used to let me see content of accounts that I actually follow, but lately it’s been flooding my feed with random popular accounts that are “related” to my interests but I don’t follow. Some of them don’t even post content relating to my interests. Just completely random. It’s very frustrating that I have to go to the accounts I follow to be up to date with their posts instead of seeing it in my feed in the order they were posted. I understand that it’s handy to have similar content suggested, but what about newer accounts that aren’t quite popular yet that may have content I enjoy? Those get drowned out if they don’t have a billion likes and views. It’s been causing me to use the app less frequently altogether as a result.

I only use Instagram for art. I use the appropriate hashtags, make reels, etc. it doesn’t seem to matter because my content only reaches a small fraction of my followers and practically no one outside my following (it shows in the analytics). Yet when I post the same content on other platforms, they get much more views and reactions than on Instagram. I’ve become more active on other apps because I don’t see the point in using a platform that doesn’t “platform” my posts.

I want to see the people I follow, and I want to be able to discover new and upcoming accounts with similar content. I don’t know why they’ve changed the way the feed works, but I cannot stand it.