Instagram tagged posts can now sit on your main profile grid right next to your own uploads, with no reposting and no Collab invite required. Instagram started rolling out the feature on September 10, and Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced that users can now add any photo or video they’re tagged in to their profile grid.
Before this, anything someone tagged you in lived in the Tagged tab, a separate section most people visiting your page never click. If you wanted that photo on your grid, you had to save it and repost it yourself or hope the person sent a Collab invite before they posted. Now you pick which tagged posts belong on your page, and they show up there in a couple of taps.
There are three ways to do it. The first is from your profile. Open your Tagged tab, press and hold the post you want, and select Add to Grid. The post lands on your main grid right away.
The second is from the post itself. Open any post you’re tagged in, tap the three dot menu, and choose the option to add it to your grid. The third is the fastest. When someone tags you, Instagram sends a notification to your DMs, and you can add the post to your grid straight from that message.
Once added, Instagram tagged posts show up on your grid with a small tag icon in the top right corner of the thumbnail, so visitors can tell the post came from another account. They line up in reverse chronological order by default, but you can move them around with the grid reordering tool Instagram launched in June.
Adding a tagged post to your grid is not the same as posting it. It does not push the post to your followers’ home feeds, and it does not make you a coauthor the way a Collab does. The original post still belongs to the account that published it. Your grid just displays it.
If you change your mind, you can take it off your grid anytime. Removing it does not delete the post or remove your tag, so it simply goes back to living in your Tagged tab.
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For creators, artists and brands, Instagram tagged posts on the grid turn press and shoutouts into profile content. When a media outlet tags you in a post about your new single, your show or your launch, you can now put that coverage front and center where new visitors land, without asking for a Collab or reposting a screenshot.
