Instagram has the explore feature that lets you discover popular Instagram content based on the interest of people you follow or yours. You might see a lot of images that you don't like and want to start fresh. This post will help you to reset your Instagram explore feed.

What is the Instagram explore feed?

The Instagram explore feed is an algorithmic feed that shows a variety of content that you as a user might be interested in, based on your behavior around the content you like, comment on, and share, as well as the people you follow.

You will also see a person's posts on the explore feed after you view their profile, even if you don't follow them on Instagram. The explore feed also learns from what you search on Instagram, including tags.

The downside is that you don't really like some of the content in your explore feed. You may find them inappropriate, out of your interest, and other reasons that you want to remove those contents from the feed.

Instagram explore feed learns to show images, videos, or posts you might like from the behaviors and activities of people you follow, too. If they like one post, it will likely show on your explore feed, despite the Instagram post's unpopularity. The same works if they save, comment, or share the post.

The more you engage in interaction in a post from Instagram explore feed, the more likely you will see similar posts in the explore feed, too. For example, if you mostly engage in a post about pets, you will see dog and cat pictures or videos on your Instagram explore feed.

Should you reset the Instagram explore feed?

Resetting your Instagram explore feed isn't really a good idea since the contents you will see on the explore feed, later on, will be raw because Instagram doesn't have enough knowledge about what kind of posts you would like.

That's probably worth a try for others who experience inaccuracy of the Instagram explore feed algorithm. You might want to start fresh your behavior and activity on Instagram to let the explore feed learns to show better posts.

For example, some people might find they have a lot of workout posts in their Instagram explore feed. Even though they're not working out or having any interest in working out.

After resetting, you won't search workout-related profiles or tags, and the explore feed is least likely to suggest workout-related posts on your Instagram explore feed.

How to reset your Instagram explore feed

Instagram itself doesn't directly provide a feature to reset your explore feed. However, there are some things you can do about it.

By marking posts you don't like

Instagram has this feature to make sure they know better about your interest in the type of posts you might like on the platform. You have to do this manually for every post you find uninteresting on your explore feed.

That's still better than doing nothing about your explore feed, which eventually, leads you to avoid opening the explore feed while using Instagram.

Keep in mind that Instagram's explore feed is algorithmic. This means everything that shows on it is automatically picked. You might still see something you don't like on your Instagram explore feed despite the effort of marking posts as "Not Interested".

However, doing this helps the algorithm understand you even better.

Open your Instagram app. Go to the Explore. Find one post you don't like. Long-tap that post, and you'll see a box pops up showing the like button as well as the kebab button.

Then tap the kebab (three-dots) button that says "Options" below the picture/video.

Mark the post as "Not interested" by tapping the option. You can also report the post if you find it offensive or violate Instagram policy.

You'll see a message that says "This post has been hidden. We'll show fewer posts like this from now on."

If you do this diligently, you have more control over everything that will show on your Instagram explore feed. You can teach the algorithm to get better at understanding what posts, videos, pictures, reels, or other types of Instagram content you might like.

Resetting your Instagram explore feed by marking posts as "Not interested" manually can take time. You may want to do it quicker by reading the following next methods.

By clearing search history

Clearing your search history on Instagram will help you reset the algorithm from recognizing your previous activities. Amazon has a similar feature to delete Amazon order history and prime video history.

Instagram has two methods to reset the explore feed by clearing the search history. The first is by deleting it manually from a specific profile and tag. The second is by deleting all of the search histories completely.

To do this, open the Instagram app. Go to your profile. Tap the hamburger button at the top. Tap Settings.

Search "search" and tap Recent searches.

Instagram will then show you a complete list of search history. Now, to reset your Instagram explore feed, tap the X button to clear the search history.

You can also clear all of them completely by tapping Clear All. Choose Clear All to confirm. This will reset the explore feed easily.

This method probably works at some point. You might still find posts on your Instagram explore feed that is not relevant. You might want to help reset the explore feed by clearing the cache of the Instagram app.

By clearing the cache of the Instagram app

Instagram doesn't provide its own method to clear the cache. You have to do it through the Settings app of your device. You can do this easily on Android and iPhone. This tutorial however will use Android as an example.

Open your Settings app on Android. Scroll down a little, then tap Apps. Wait for a second, the list will load and show the Instagram app. Choose the Instagram app.

Then, scroll down a little bit and tap Clear Data.

Tap Clear Cache to reset your Instagram explore feed. Tap OK to confirm.

Reflect on your activities and the people you follow

If your Instagram explore page is messy, you were likely to use Instagram too heavily.

If you are always following any Instagram account even if you don't really like it, liking all Instagram posts you might really don't like, and other activities that help the algorithm learn your interest wrong, then you can stop doing so to let the algorithm learns better.

Instagram explore feed algorithm depends on your activities. If your activities consist of all not-so-good Instagram accounts and posts, Instagram will show similar stuff on the explore page.

One that helps fix the problem you probably haven't done: clearing follower. You can remove Instagram followers easily by going to your profile, tapping the follower list, then tapping Remove to accounts you don't really like to follow.

The other solution: stop liking all pictures or videos you see on Instagram. Try liking only the things you really like and want to see again in the future.

The last thing: follow tags you like on Instagram. If you're interested in working out, you can follow a relevant tag like #workout. Instagram will show those posts related to workouts on the explore page.

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Instagram has the explore page or feed that isn't perfect and you might find it inaccurate. You can reset your Instagram explore feed or page using the methods above so you can start all the right activities to let Instagram understand better about your interest.

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