Instagram still hasn't finished rolling out its archive feature
Posted by MUNKRVVSH
Posted on November 03, 2017
I feel like I'm going to be the last person on Earth to get Instagram's archive feature. All
my friends have been able to hide their old photos for months. Most got the tool way back in June when Instagram announced that the feature would accompany its 10.21 release for iOS and Android. But not me.
Instagram's first tests of the features go back even further; some Verge staffers saw it on their accounts in late May. Archiving lets users choose posts to take off their grid. Instead of deleting them, though, those posts go into a separate, private section of the app that serves as an archive folder. It works similarly to the bookmarking feature: no one can see what you've archived, but you can navigate to the posts through your profile page.
I've had the same Instagram account since college, and I want to archive some of my older posts and then make my account public. I don't have anything crazy on my feed that would incriminate me, but I'd like to get rid of the ridiculously bad old photos I 'gramed and maybe some photos of ex-boyfriends. I want a new homepage, as Nicola Fumo described it for The Verge. It isn't fair that I haven't gotten archiving yet, really, because I was also the only one who was excited to hide my old photos. That's also my luck. https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/23/16351518/instagram-archive-feature-roll-out-release
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