How to organize the Instagram feed

You’ve been using Instagram for some time now for to promote your business or personal brand online, so you’re looking for a way to refine your profile and make it more engaging for visitors. After learning how to create original and quality content, you would like to raise the bar further and be able to optimally organize your account feed, so you would like some advice in this regard.

How do you say? Is this exactly the case? Then let me give you some “tips” on how to organize the Instagram feed. In the next lines, you will find some suggestions – I hope useful – on how to add new contents to your feed, how to modify the existing ones and how to archive/delete the superfluous ones, in order to create a profile of sure impact for new visitors and create a strong identity on the famous photographic social network. I’ll also suggest some apps that can help you keep your feed organized.

Since I already hear you “pawing”, do you know what I tell you? Let’s put aside the chatter and let’s get started! Take the time you need to focus on reading the next few lines and, more importantly, try to implement the “tips” I will give you. At this point, all I have to do is wish you good reading and good luck for your Instagram business!

Index

• What is the personal Instagram feed
• How to organize your Instagram feed
  • Add new content
  • Modify existing content
  • Archive and delete content
• How to have an effective feed on Instagram
• App to organize Instagram feeds
  • Preview: Planner for Instagram
  • Other apps to organize Instagram feeds

What is the personal Instagram feed

Before getting to the point and seeing, in practice, how to organize the Instagram feed , allow me a small aside: in this tutorial, as you may have guessed from the introduction, I will tell you about the personal feed and not the Instagram home, which can be called also “public feed”.

All the content you post in your personal feed ends up in the public feed of those who follow your account, and in the guide I will explain how to organize the content they see by going to your Instagram account.

Having made this small (but necessary) premise, I would say that we can actually proceed by getting to the heart of the topic.

How to organize your Instagram feed

So let’s see how to organize your Instagram feed by inserting new content within it, modifying those already present and archiving them and / or eliminating those that are not relevant to the image you want to give of your person (or your company).

Add new content

Adding new content to the feed is a very simple operation to complete and through which you can always keep your account “fresh” and updated. How do you add new ones? I’ll explain it to you right away.

To begin, log in to Instagram app for the official service Android (also available on store alternative ) or iPhone , press the button (+) at the top right (if you do not see it, you tap on the house email at the bottom left or on the thumbnail of your profile photo or on the little man , at the bottom right) and select the item Post of the feed (on Android) or the item Post (on iOS) in the opened menu.

Now, select the content you want to upload from the Gallery (you can also select more than one, in case you want to publish a post in “carousel format”, which is done by pressing the symbol of the two superimposed squares before selecting the contents to publish) . Alternatively, take a photo or record a video at the moment, pressing on one of the appropriate cards and creating the content using the shutter / recording button (the dot ) placed in the center of the screen.

Once this is done, press on the arrow pointing to the right that you see in the upper right corner of the screen (on Android), or on the Next item , always at the top right (on iOS); possibly select a filter to apply to the content and, if you deem it necessary, modify the content by clicking on the Edit tab at the bottom right, so as to act on the main parameters (eg Brightness , Contrast , Saturation , etc.).

Subsequently, press again on the icon of the arrow pointing to the right (on Android) or on the Next item (on iOS), add a caption, a place and possibly tag the people of your interest and publish the content by tapping on the symbol (✓) located at the top right (on Android) or on the Share mail item at the top right (on iOS). For more details on how to post on Instagram, take a look at my guide on the topic.

Modify existing content

One thing you can do to improve your Instagram feed is to edit the content that is already there. Let me be clear, you will not be able to change who knows what of what has already been posted, if not the geotag , the caption and the addition / removal of tags , but this can be useful, especially if you have not paid much attention to these details so far.

To edit a post in your feed, access Instagram from the official app of the service for Android or iOS , press on the thumbnail of your profile photo or on the little man , at the bottom right, scroll through the feed, locate the content to edit and presses on its preview.

Once this is done, click on the three dots symbol (top right of the post itself) and select the Edit item in the opened menu. At this point, edit the caption (if you see the caption Write a caption … obviously you didn’t put it at all) or edit the place , pressing on the one currently set and selecting the correct one (if you had not entered it, you will see the caption Add Lugo at the top left of the post).

As for adding or removing tags, click on the Tag people button or on the [ N ] people item (if you had already tagged some), tap in a point of the content and, after searching for the person’s name of your interest, select the name , to tag it. To remove a tag, on the other hand, tap the one you want to delete and press the (x) .

When you have made these changes, click on the symbol (✓) located at the top right (on Android) or on the End item at the top right (on iOS), in order to save the changes made.

Archive and delete content

Giving your feed a good “clean up”, by archiving or even deleting content that you no longer feel in line with your profile, is something I recommend you do from time to time. This operation, in fact, will allow you to remove all those posts that, for one reason or another, you deem no longer suitable for your account and to always keep the feed in order.

Before explaining how to archive and delete content on Instagram , I want to tell you that archiving is a reversible action, as you can restore the archived content whenever you want; the deletion of posts, on the other hand, is definitive (there are 30 days in which you can retrace your steps, after which the deletion of the contents becomes definitive).

To archive a post in your feed, access Instagram from the official app of the service for Android or iOS , tap on the thumbnail of your profile photo or on the little man (bottom right), scroll through the feed, locate the content from remove and press on its preview . Finally, in the opened menu, tap on the Archive item to archive the content or select the Delete item (twice), so as to delete it.

In case of second thoughts, to restore an archived post, tap the button (≡) (at the top right of the main screen of your profile), select the items Archive> Archive of posts , touch the preview of the content to show again in the profile, presses the icon of the three dots (top right of the same) and select the item Show in profile .

To restore content deleted for less than 30 days , however, after pressing the button (≡) select the items Settings> Accounts> Recently deleted , touch the content to restore, press the three dots symbol (top right of the itself) and select the word Reset (twice in a row). Then press the Next button , type the security code that was sent to you via e-mail or SMS, press the Confirm button and you’re done.

How to have an effective feed on Instagram

Let me now give you some “tips” on how to have an effective feed on Instagram. See which of these ideas seems most congenial to you and put them into practice so as to have a more attractive feed for potential new followers (as well as for those who already follow you).

• Identify a theme for your profile– this will give you a clearer idea of ​​what to post, avoiding making content that has no bearing on the purpose for which you created your account.
• Choose the colors of your profile– following this suggestion can help you get a homogeneous feed from a chromatic point of view and, who will see it, will be able to recognize the colors you have chosen to distinguish your account.
• Edit content to give your own personal touch– when you are about to apply a filter or edit content using some editing app , try to make the same changes over and over again. In this way, over time, you will be able to create your own personal style that will give greater coherence to the profile.
• Use apps to organize your feed– if you want to preview what your feed looks like before publishing certain content, you can take advantage of some useful solutions, such as those mentioned in the next chapter .

App to organize Instagram feeds

So let’s see some apps to organize Instagram feeds . These are solutions that, as I told you a few lines above, allow you to preview the appearance of the feed in case certain contents are published. Let me tell you more about it.

Preview: Planner for Instagram

Preview: Planner for Instagram is one of the best solutions to organize the Instagram feed, as it allows you to choose the order in which to view and schedule posts in a simple and fast way. Basically it is free, but access to all its functions requires a subscription starting from 7.49 euros / month. The app is available for Android (also on alternative stores , for devices without Play Store) and for iOS / iPadOS .

After installing and starting Preview: Planner for Instagram, select the Free option , press the Continue for Free button and tap the Continue button to accept the privacy policy and terms of use of the app. Then, press the Login with Instagram button and log in to Instagram using your account credentials.

Now, to upload a new content, press the (+) button ( top right), select the Library option and choose the content to publish. After selecting them, change the order of the posts loaded in the application, so as to set the final appearance that your profile must have once they are published: just hold down on one of them and drag it where you want it to appear ( obviously this is only feasible with the contents uploaded to the app and not those uploaded by Instagram, which are characterized by the logo of the photographic social network).

In conclusion, press on the cartoon symbol , activate the Schedule Post option , indicate the day and time in which to publish the contents and, finally, press the Confirm and Done items.

Other apps to organize Instagram feeds

There are also other apps for organizing Instagram feeds that you can consider. I’ll list them below: see if you find any useful in your case.

• Plann +( Android / iOS / iPadOS ) – is a useful app for organizing your profile, which is characterized by a simple and intuitive interface, which includes all the necessary features to manage your own account. Basically it is free, but access to all functions requires a subscription starting at € 4.49 / month.
• Planoly( Android / iOS / iPadOS ) – this solution offers various functions for the management of your Instagram account and, as in the case of those mentioned so far, it is semi-free: to take advantage of all its functions, in fact, you need to sign up for a subscription starting from 9.49 euros/month.
• Later( Android / iOS / iPadOS ) – is another free app belonging to the category in question through which you can manage your account, receive reminders to send content online, schedule them, etc.

For more information on using these and other apps to organize Instagram, check out the guide I linked to you. I hope it will be useful for you.