Instagram has many functions and features that the vast majority of people are still unaware of. One of these many functions is the ‘Private Conversations’, which are used to talk about certain things with people we trust. The best thing about temporary conversations is that messages are automatically deleted to maintain confidentiality.
Another of the hidden functions of Instagram is that of the ‘Archived photos’. These photos are archived so that not everyone who follows you can see them. In short, we’ll show you critical information that involves things like where the images you archive on your Instagram go, whether those images can be seen by other people, and how to remove a photo from ‘Archived’.
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- Where do the images you archive from your Instagram profile go?
- Can the images that you file in your account be seen by your followers?
- What should you do if you need to remove a photo from the files?
- From PC
- With mobile devices
Where do the images you archive from your Instagram profile go?
The photo archive on Instagram is very similar to the chats archive that the WhatsApp instant messaging app brings. WhatsApp allows its users to archive recent and old messages so that they cannot be viewed in the list of chats provided by the application.
This function is very similar to that of Instagram. Each of the images that are archived on Instagram are saved in a section within the profile settings . See how to access this section that has the photos that are archived:
- Open the Instagram app or go to the Instagram website
- Login to the account that belongs to you
- Press the icon with your profile photo to access it
- Then, press the icon of the 3 lying lines
- In the options that will appear there, click the one that says ‘File’
Once you enter that section called ‘Archive’, you will see each of the images that you have archived. This Instagram function is for you to hide photos that you have uploaded on your Instagram, which for some reason you want to delete, since in the future you may need them.
Apart from this, it should be noted that the theft of Facebook accounts has become very fashionable . To prevent your account from being stolen, you can delete your login records .
Can the images that you file in your account be seen by your followers?
As mentioned before, the photos that you archive on your Instagram account are completely hidden. Once you file an image on your Instagram account, it will no longer be visible to those who follow you . The only way for a person other than you to see that photo you have archived is to enter your profile or for you to take that photo from the ‘Archived’.
Just as you put an image in the archived section, you can also take it out of there whenever you want. By the way, if that image had reactions, comments or something like that, you have to know that that remains. If one day you decide to take that image out of there, the tags, reactions and comments that the photo has will remain there. However, see how images are archived on Instagram :
- Go to the Instagram app or go to the web
- Log in
- Enter your profile
- Look for the photo
- Press the 3 dots icon
- Select the option that says ‘Archive’ and confirm the action if Instagram asks you to
With this, the process to archive a photo on your Instagram account would end . To unarchive it, you have to use a different method.
What should you do if you need to remove a photo from the files?
Before we showed you how they are archived in any Instagram account, but now we are going to show you how to remove a photo from the ‘Archive’ section. In this way, if one day you want to make the photo you have archived visible to your followers , you can do it without problems:
From PC
With computers you can use Instagram if you access the web using a web browser . Although from the web you cannot use all the functions of Instagram, at least you can remove a photo from the ‘Archived’ section. Now, this is the process that has to be used to do such a thing:
- Go to the Instagram website and log in if you haven’t started it yet
- Then, press the icon that has your profile photo
- In the options that will be displayed, select the one that says profile
- While in your profile, click on the icon with the 3 dots
- Select the option that says ‘Archive’
- Then, click where it says ‘Publications’
- Find the photo you want to remove from among the archived
- Select that photo or if not open it
- Click where it says ‘Recover’ and click on ‘Accept’ if it asks for authorization to perform the action
It should be noted that apart from recovering photos archived on Instagram Web, from there you can also post comments on your own publications .
With mobile devices
With mobile devices , the process to run is the same only with a few slight differences. Pay attention to the procedure:
- Open the Instagram app
- Enter your profile
- Press the icon of the 3 lying lines that it has
- Select the ‘File’ section
- Then, choose the sub option called ‘Publications’
- Find the photo you want to take from there
- Open that photo and click on ‘Recover’
This would be all you have to do to be able to take a photo of the ‘Archived’ section. On the other hand, if one day you want to hide some Instagram mentions , you can do it using a PC or mobile .