How to Clear Your Search History on Instagram

Instagram apps have now become a photo-sharing app to a giant social media platform app used by many people for many reasons. Due to the massive content on Instagram, people also have used Instagram to search for people, products or services. This search can be done using the search function on the Instagram app. However, once you used the search function on Instagram, the search history will be saved into your Instagram account. Here we are going to show you how you can manually delete and clear your search history on Instagram.

WHY CLEAR YOUR SEARCH HISTORY?

Here are some of the reasons why you should clear your search history on Instagram

1. SECURITY AND PRIVACY PURPOSES – If you have used the search function on Instagram for a while, the search history would probably have some embarrassing things that you have search if someone else looks at it. So, it is probably you delete once in a while
2. FOR STORAGE SPACE – Clearing your search history might reduce some of the storage data space in your Instagram app. This will make your Instagram app load faster

So, if you are interested to learn how to clear your search history on Instagram, here are the steps.

Step 1

At your Instagram profile menu, tap at the three-line icon above

Step 2

A pop-up menu will appear. Tap at the “ Settings”

Step 3

At your Instagram settings, tap at “Security” here

Step 4

At the Security settings, tap at “Clear search history” below here

Step 5

You can choose to select which search history you want to delete here or tap at “Clear All” to delete all search history

Step 6

Tap at “Clear All” to confirm deleting your search history

So, there you have it – simple steps on how you can clear your search history on Instagram. Please leave us a comment below on how often you delete your search history on Instagram.

Please also read our previous article on How to Hide Sensitive Contents on Your Instagram feeds