Instagram is making it easier to show off the posts you’ve been tagged in, with a new option to add them directly to your main profile grid.
The Tagged tab isn’t going anywhere. It will still house the posts other people have tagged you in, but you can now pick specific ones to feature alongside your own posts. Instagram suggests the feature could be useful for favourite group photos, creator collaborations and memories, although there’s nothing stopping you from adding any tagged post you want to your grid.
There are a few ways to do it. If you’ve just been tagged, you can select “Add to grid” directly from the DM notification. You can also open the three-dot menu in the top-right corner of the tagged post, or press and hold a post from your Tagged tab to bring up the same option.
There is one privacy detail worth knowing. Adding someone else’s post to your profile doesn’t automatically make it visible to everyone. Instagram notes that who can see the post will still depend on the privacy settings of both your account and the account of the person who tagged you.
If you change your mind later, you can remove the tagged post from your profile grid without deleting the original post. That makes the feature a little more flexible than simply reposting something you’ve been tagged in.
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By default, posts added to your grid will appear in reverse-chronological order. You don’t have to leave them there, though. Instagram also lets you rearrange posts on your profile, so you can move the tagged photos around and fit them into whatever layout you’re going for.
That profile-reordering feature arrived in June, about a year after Instagram first announced it. Combined with the new tagged-post option, it gives users considerably more control over what appears on their main profile, even when they didn’t create the original post themselves.