How to find a person on Instagram
Instagram is one of the most popular social networks and almost all the people you know are subscribed to it. In this regard, you recently wondered what happened to a long-time friend of yours that you haven’t heard from for a long time and, trying to look for him on Instagram, you could not find him. This seems very strange to you, also because it is a person who has always been very passionate about technology, so you are afraid that you have done something wrong in the search and would like my help in this regard.
How do you say? That’s how things are and, therefore, you wonder how to find a person on Instagram? In that case, don’t worry: if you want, I can direct you to the search tools available on this social network and help you find the user of your interest. Rest assured, it won’t be anything difficult: you don’t need to be an expert in using the application to do state-of-the-art research.
In short, just follow the instructions I will give you in this tutorial and you will see that you cannot go wrong. All you need is a few minutes of free time and your smartphone or PC. At this point, therefore, all I have to do is wish you a good read and a good research!
Index
- How to find a person on Instagram knowing only the name
- How to find a person on Instagram without knowing their name
- How to find a person on Instagram with their phone number
- How to find a person on Instagram from Facebook
- How to find people on Instagram via place
- How to find a person on Instagram with a photo
- How to find people on Instagram by email
- How to find a person on Instagram from Tinder
- How to find a person on Instagram without being subscribed
How to find a person on Instagram knowing only the name
The first method that I recommend you to use, to find a person on Instagram is to use his search engine: if you know the username of the person to search for or his name and surname, this is in fact the shortest solution and quick.
Then start the Instagram app for Android or iOS or connect to your account from your PC, from its official website of the social network or using its application for Windows 10, in order to log in to your profile, if necessary.
Then, in the Instagram search engine (the magnifying glass icon, from the app), type the name, username or first and last name of the person you want to search, in order to display a list of people as a result research.
Do you think you have found the person you were looking for? Very well! Click on his name to see his profile (if this has not been set as private ), and you will be able to understand if he is actually the person you were looking for.
How to find a person on Instagram without knowing their name
Are you looking for a person who you think is registered on Instagram but you do not know his name because, perhaps, on the main social networks he uses a pseudonym? In this case, I suggest that you consider the solutions that I propose to you in the next chapters: put them into action and you will see that, in one way or another, you will still succeed in the intent you have proposed.
How to find a person on Instagram with their phone number
If your purpose is to find a person on Instagram but you don’t know their name or username, you can do this search starting from the contacts in your smartphone’s address book. This feature, in fact, can be useful for you to find a person on Instagram whose phone number you know.
To find a person on Instagram through the contacts in your smartphone’s address book, go to your profile, press the ☰ button and select the item Suggested people from the menu that opens. Then click on the Connect item, corresponding to the word Connect contacts, and grant the required permissions, by pressing the Allow access button.
At the end of the scan, you will be shown all the users registered on Instagram: scroll, then, the list that will be proposed to you to see if you can identify the person of your interest.
How to find a person on Instagram from Facebook
Another method that I recommend you use, if you want to find a person on Instagram, is to use the link with the Facebook account and, consequently, the synchronization of the latter’s contacts. So you can check which of your Facebook friends are also subscribed to Instagram.
To carry out this procedure, go to the Suggested People section as seen before, press the Connect item, corresponding to the word Connect to Facebook and grant all the requested permissions, in order to log in to the latter and see who, among yours Facebook friends, he is also subscribed to Instagram.
Scroll down the list until you find the person you are looking for and, if necessary, tap on his name, to see all his contents and be so sure that he is the person you have in mind.
How to find people on Instagram via place
To find a person on Instagram through a place, you can use the social network’s search engine, as this allows you to view the names of people who have tagged themselves in a certain place.
To get started, launch the Instagram app or log into your account on your PC. Then, in the text field of the search engine (the magnifying glass icon, from the app), type the name of the city of your interest and then click on the Places tab.
Now, tap on the corresponding result of the search carried out by you, in order to see all the posts of users who have added this place as a geographic tag in the content they publish.
Alternatively, you can search by hashtag, typing the name of the place preceded by the hashtag symbol. Then tap on the corresponding result of your search, in order to see the posts but also the stories published by users with that particular hashtag.
How to find a person on Instagram with a photo
Unfortunately on Instagram it is not possible to search for a person through the photo; however, if you have an image that portrays the person in question, you can do an image search on Google and, with a bit of luck, go back to their name.
All you have to do is connect to the Google image search version and upload the image or paste its URL. Then press the Search by image button to see the result of your search (ie images similar or identical to the one you uploaded).
At this point, after knowing the name and possibly the surname of the person depicted in the image, you can use the Instagram search engine, as already explained, to search for the user in question.
How to find people on Instagram by email
Instagram does not allow you to search for people by email address; however, if you have this information, I assume you know the first name and probably the last name of the owner of the e-mail address.
in this specific case, to search for the user in question on Instagram, all you have to do is try a search through this information, using the search engine of the photographic social network, as explained in the chapter dedicated to the topic.
How to find a person on Instagram from Tinder
It is possible to find a person on Instagram starting from Tinder, but this search cannot always be carried out easily.
In fact, in the well-known dating app, people often connect their Instagram profile to Tinder, through the appropriate feature available. However, even though you can see photos posted on Instagram on Tinder, that person’s account name is not visible.
In this specific case, you must therefore hope that the person you want to search has written their Instagram username in the Tinder biography, so that you can go without fail and find the user you want, by doing a simple search on Instagram.
How to find a person on Instagram without being subscribed
To find a person on Instagram without being subscribed to this social network it is necessary to carry out a search on Google: in the famous search engine, then, type the name and surname, or the username of the person of your interest, followed by the words Instagram or Instagram account.
In this way, among the search results that will be shown to you, you will be able to see if that person is subscribed to Instagram: if so, in fact, there will be the URL instagram.com, followed by the username, which refers to the profile of the user in question.
Then click on the same to see his profile; however, please note that, without logging in to the social network, there are limitations regarding the content you can see: in fact, only the previews of the images published in the posts are visible and it is not possible to see the stories published by the user in question.