Q&A for How to Use Instagram

If you're trying to grow your followers, use Instagram stories to talk about your experiences. Instagram has a great new feature where you can ask questions on your story and look at the answers from your followers. Take advantage of that feature — it will help you interact with your followers and grow your engagement.

The hashtag (#) is added at the beginning of words to link videos or photos which share common subjects. The hashtag makes it easier for people to find the things they most like when searching Instagram. To use them, simply type a hashtag before the item, animal, person, service, etc., and add photos or a video to go with that hashtag. For example: #kitten, #gold, #Kardashian or #sushi.

Instagram has two main purposes: Social media (engaging with others) and photo sharing (sharing with others). It can also help you to discover or promote trends on anything from baking and celebrities to animals and relationships... and beyond! It’s also just one of many ways to stay in touch with friends and followers, including keeping updated about their interests and letting them know about yours.

Yes, you can make money using Instagram. To be successful, you’ll need a decent following and high quality content that keeps the followers returning to your account. You can make money on Instagram via such activities as selling your high quality photos, affiliate marketing or perhaps using it as a platform to promote products such as eBooks, crafts or your own business. For more help with money making on Instagram, see How to Make Money on Instagram .

If you have a private account, only people that you allow to follow you will be able to see your photos. If you have a public account, everyone that you haven't blocked will be able to see your photos.

No. There are apps which claim to offer this functionality, but they don't work. They only give basic stats like number of subscribers and likes. However, if you follow the person or like or comment on a post of theirs, then obviously they'll know!

People can see if you liked or commented on a post. They cannot see if you just looked at it.

Go to your account settings and tap Posts You've Liked. This will show you about the last 300 posts you've liked from a mobile device.

Not if you don't post any! If you're worried about this, set your Instagram account to private and only share photos with personal friends.

To delete your own photo, tap the options icon under the photo (three dots) and select delete. To hide another person's photos from your feed, block or unfollow that person. It may take some time for that person's photos to disappear, especially if you are only following a few people.

No, unless you save them or screenshot them, but you will still keep the original picture.

You can only add hashtags to your own posts, and only if they're set to public. Type them into the caption area. After you post, you can click each hashtag to see all public Instagram photos with the same hashtag.

You can only add clickable links in your profile. "Links" next to photos just look like ordinary text. Try using a URL shortening app or website to create short, memorable links that your viewers can type in to their browsers.

Click on the picture, then on the three dots. Click "Edit," then type your hashtag in the caption.

You cannot write a message, you need to post a picture. Many people post a picture of black, and then add a comment at the bottom, or you can write something on Notes in your phone, take a screenshot, and post that too.

If you have a way to transfer the photos to your mobile device, you can upload them from the Instagram app. Otherwise, try the instructions in this article.

Log into Instagram and tap or click the person-shaped button to go to your profile. Here, you should see your profile picture. Tap or click on it. On a mobile device, this will give you the option to add a new photo, import your profile photo from connected services such as Facebook or Twitter, or remove your current photo. On a PC, you will only be able to either remove your current photo or upload a new one.

Unfortunately, you're right that Instagram no longer allows you to type in a location. Now they only allow locations created within the Facebook app, which means you would need to allow them to track your phone.

You can delete comments from other users on your own posts by swiping the comment to the left and pressing Delete on iOS. If you are using an android device, press and hold the comment and press 'Delete Comment' and the comment cannot be seen by anyone else. If you are talking about DMs then you can delete your own messages that you have sent to someone or to a group chat by just holding them and pressing 'Delete'. There is not any way to delete someone else's DMs sent to you by someone or a group chat. The only way is to ask them to delete the message or to contact Instagram and ask them to remove the message. If this fails, you could try deleting the group chat or blocking the user(s).

You can't add a second account to your profile. You can just make another account and write on your bio: Follow my second account-"username".

You can choose to add a location to your photos, otherwise no one will know where you took them. If your account is private and you've added a location, then only your followers will see it. If you add a location and your account is public, everyone can see it.

If you go to your current account settings, there should be an available option to change your account from public to private.

You can't use a video as your profile picture, unfortunately.

Hit the camera in the upper left and swipe over to the right where you see "Boomerang" and other options. Tap "Live."

Hold down their name and hit the arrow in the upper right, then type your message.

Go into the search bar (or explore) and search the celebrity's name. To make sure it is the real account of celebrities, a blue tick should be next to their names when you search them up.

You can like other peoples' posts by double tapping the photo or by clicking the heart icon on the lower left of their post. You can comment by clicking the speech bubble icon, which is next to the the heart, and typing your comment.

Yes. You'll have to go to the Instagram website. Log in, and you can post it from there.

You can't copy it entirely. If you want it saved so you can take a look at it whenever you want, you can save it in your collections (the banner at the bottom right corner of the picture). If you want it saved in your camera roll, or to have a "copy" of it, you can screenshot the picture and crop it.

After someone has read your message, it will say "Seen" underneath it. You can't tell if anyone has read your comments or posts though.