How to activate the manual review process?

To manually choose which photos and videos appear on your profile:

Tap the icon (represented by three horizontal lines) in the top right to go to Settings & Activity.

Scroll down to the “How others can interact with you” section. and tap “Tags & Mentions”.

In the “How to manage tags” section, turn on the switch for “Manually approve tags.”

Granting approval for posts to appear on your profile

If you choose to manually add photos and videos to your profile, you’ll still get notifications when someone tags you.

To add the tagged photo or video, tap the photo, then click the icon in the top right.

Choose “Posting Options”, then select either “Show in my profile” or “Hide in my profile”.

How to prevent scammers from tagging you

For those with public Instagram accounts, their privacy settings may allow others to tag them in photos and posts.

To prevent this, users can make their account completely private or limit how other accounts interact with them by adjusting the “Who can tag you” option in their settings.

This controls who can tag them in a post and allows manual approval of tags in some settings.

Labels from spam accounts are automatically hidden

Anyone can tag you on Instagram, but tags from accounts flagged as potential spam won’t appear on your profile. without approval.

You can review tag requests marked as possible spam and decide whether to approve or delete them.

There is also an option to remove tag requests in bulk.

If a tag request is flagged as potential spam, you won’t be tagged in the post unless you approve it. Unaddressed tag requests marked as spam will be deleted after 30 days.