Instagram is one of the most popular social media applications. And it always has something or the other to attract its users through different features. Such a feature being released by Instagram is, ability to bulk delete posts and reels on Instagram.
This feature as the name suggests, will enable its users to manage their content (delete / archive) in bulk. The user doesn’t have to delete each post individually. Earlier, deleting multiple posts was possible with the third-party apps. But now Instagram has developed native feature to make it easy.
Let’s dig into the details of how to bulk delete posts and reels on Instagram
Methods to Bulk Delete posts and reels
The posts and reels on Instagram can be deleted in bulk by 2 ways.
- Third-party Applications
There is several third-party apps available. You can take services of these applications to bulk delete posts. Some Mass Post Deleters are as follows
- Instant Cleaner- for Instagram
- Cleaner for Instagram – Unfollow, Block, and Delete
- Mass Delete for Instagram
- InstaClean – Cleaner for IG
- Cleaner for IG – Unfollow, block, and delete
- Native feature of Instagram
Apart from third-party apps, Instagram has native and classic features. The user doesn’t need another app support when it comes to deleting posts in bulk.
In consideration of bulk deleting posts and reels on Instagram, following steps are to be followed:
First things first, you must have mobile application (Android and iOS) of Instagram. This feature won’t work on web versions.
1 Update the Instagram app on your phone
2 Launch Instagram and go to profile
3 Tap on the hamburger menu at top right corner of the screen
4 Select Your Activity from the menu
5 You will land on Your Activity screen where you can monitor activities like time spent, likes, comments, reaction stickers etc
6 Tap on photos and videos
7 Tap on posts/ reels you wish to delete in bulk.
8 All your posts will be shown sorted from oldest to newest or vice versa
9 Press the Select and tap on them to select in bulk
10 Tap to Delete button to remove wanted posts
The posts you selected will be deleted from your profile and will move automatically to Recently Deleted Second In case you deleted a post accidentally, need not to worry. Deleted posts get transferred to Recently Deleted Section. Wanted post could be recovered from them within 30 days
How to restore Deleted Instagram Posts
To view or recover posts on Instagram, follow these simple steps
- Launch the Instagram app
- Open profile screen and tap on hamburger menu followed by Your Activity
- Tap on Recently Deleted on your activity screen
- You will be able to view all the deleted posts along with the number of days after which they’ll be deleted permanently.
- Tap on the post you want to restore
- On the next screen, tap on the three-dot icon and select Restore.
Follow the steps to recover other deleted posts on Instagram.
How to hide Instagram photos without deleting it
The above-mentioned method will remove posts after 30 days. But if you don’t want to delete but just hide the posts from your profile, with simple steps.
- Go to your Instagram profile
- Tap on the hamburger menu
- Select Your Activity
- Find Photos and videos
- Go to posts and select wanted posts
- After choosing photos and videos, tap on the Archive instead of Delete.
This way you can hide posts in bulk.
How to Delete Multiple Saved Posts on Instagram
Instagram gives access to its users to save other creators’ posts or reels. To unsaved or to delete Saved Posts, follow these steps
- Open the Instagram app
- Choose saved from the three-line menu
- All posts saved by you will appear.
- Tap on All posts or individual folder you wish to delete.
- Tap on three-dot icon and choose Select
- Tap on the icons to select them and tap on Remove from saved button to remove saved posts
Can Archived posts be deleted at once?
Woefully, Instagram doesn’t provide ways to delete archived posts in bulk. To delete archived photos, you will have to open each post and then delete.
Posting content online has become a routine. But deleting those posts and reels can be really time consuming. if one has to it one by one, it would take forever to delete posts and reels. In this article, we showed the best and easy ways to bulk delete posts and reels on Instagram.
