How can you see who looks at your Instagram profile and Stories? It’s not a simple answer because of user privacy. Instagram does not have a built-in feature to let you check the users who view a profile. It is not in Facebook/Meta/Instagram’s interest to share data on profile viewing as it could decrease user engagement of people who only use the platform to look at posts, Stories, and accounts without posting their content. Their intended goal is to increase engagements.
To see who views your profile some people recommend third-party apps; however, it is unlikely that they will work. There is no way to see the profiles of people who view your profile. To gather data about your followers you can switch to a professional account. Stories are the only feature that can show you the individuals who view your profile.
Check out the steps below that you should take based on what data you want.
There are a variety of third-party apps out there that want to make you believe that you can see who viewed your Instagram profile. However, these apps won’t work because Instagram’s data policy only shares the user’s name, username, bio, profile photo, and email with apps that have been approved to use the API.
However, there are still ways to get information about who views your profile if you have a professional account.
Instagram will give you information about who has been viewing your professional account but won’t give you any names. If you’re interested in that kind of data, here are the steps to see who views your Instagram profile with a professional account.
Go to your profile, the three bars in the top right, and click on ‘settings’. In settings, you will go to ‘account’, scroll to the bottom and click ‘switch to professional account’ in blue.
* Your account will now be public.
To view your professional dashboard, click your profile, and under your bio is a button that says ‘professional dashboard’. Tapping it will show you the number of followers and non-followers who engage with your account. If you want more insights, tap ‘see all’ at the top of the screen and then tap ‘followers’. This can show you information like the location, age, and gender of your followers.
Unlike your profile, you can see the individual profiles who have viewed your Instagram Stories but only within the past 24 hours of posting them unless you add it as a highlight you can see it for 48 hours.
To use this feature, all you need to do is tap on the profile pictures in the bottom left-hand corner of the Story. That will bring up a list of all the people who have viewed your story, including users who don’t follow you. If you want to block any users you don’t want to share your Stories with, tap on the menu button to the right of the user’s name and select ‘hide story’ to block them.
After you post a Story you can make it a highlight. When you save them as a highlight you can view the people who viewed that story by visiting your profile for 48 hours.
If you don’t want anyone you don’t know to view your profile the simplest thing to do is make your account private and remove or block followers you don’t want to be able to view your account anymore.
You cannot see a list of who views your profile. You can get data on your followers with a professional account or make your account private and remove people you don’t want to have access to. Stories, though, allow you to see who views your content and easily block profiles from viewing your Stories. You can use these tips to see who views your Instagram profile and Stories.
