Taking pictures used to be a casual thing. Y’know, just for memories’ sake. Then along came Instagram and as the landscape of photo-sharing apps evolved, so have our photography skills sharpened, giving rise to the term ‘Instagram-worthy shot’. To help us achieve that, a whole slew of editing apps with filters, colour-correcting tools and even slimming effects arose. Just scrolling through your profile feed seeing how you’ve changed over the years might make you cringe.
We all have embarrassing photos that we shared on Instagram back in our more innocent days, thinking we were the coolest shit at that point. So you wanna delete those photos but having to save them in your phone and transferring them to your hard drive can be quite a hassle? No worries as Instagram is constantly trying to improve users’ experience with the app and now they have just rolled out the “Archive” option.
It allows you to take down a photo from your feed and store them in an archive folder where only you have access to view the photos. You can always choose to put it back up and the likes and comments will stay intact. Just select a photo you wish to take down and click on the three dots on the upper right corner or hold down on the post from your profile. To view all your archived posts, just tap on the encircled clock icon at the top right corner of your profile page:
The archive button can be found on the top right hand corner.
The archive page will look like this upon clicking the archive button.
Whether you like to hold on to precious memories or you want to remove your “ex-lover-now-friends” friend from your profile feed, archiving helps you to store those pictures for your own private viewing. For now, the archive option seems to be appearing now and then but since it is still in its early stages, we shall patiently wait as Instagram expands its availability in the coming months.
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