How to View a Private Instagram Account 2023

How to View a Private Instagram Account: Instagram is a Social Media application in which users can share their photos and videos. Ever since the private account feature has come in Instagram, since then we cannot see the photos and reels of the account of any person who has made his account ‘private’. Photos, reels, videos posted by private accounts can only be seen by people who are followers of that account. But if you want to see the posts or photos of a private account without following it or sending a follow request, is it possible? We are trying to know the answer of this thing here.

How to view a Private Instagram Account

This is not completely correct, but if you want to see the posts of an Instagram private account without sending a follow request, then there are some tricks –

By Google Image Search

• You have to open any browser on your mobile device.
• Go to Google search and now in the search bar here the photo of the person whose private account you want to see, enter her name (enter the same name as the Instagram account)
• Now find the option of Image below the search bar and click on it.
• Here you can find some pictures related to this person in pictures.

By Someone else’s Account

If any of your friends or Instagram followers is also a follower of this private account, then you can check the posts of this person with the help of that too.

Through other Social Media Accounts of the Person having the Private Account

The person whose Instagram account is private, and you want to see it, can also search it on other social media apps like Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Here you can find some of his pictures or at least profile Facebook posts.

If none of the above methods work for you, then you will definitely have to wait for this Instagram account to become public from private.

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How to view a Private Account on Instagram with a Request

This is actually the right way to go to a private account, to send a request to follow it, further details are given step by step.

• Open Instagram Account.
• Now here in the search bar above, write the name or username of the person whose account you want to find and find the correct account.
• Once the account is found, go to his account.
• Now send the request by pressing the ‘Follow’ Button.
• Now wait for the person to ‘Accept’ your request.
• As soon as they ‘Accept’ it, you can see all their posts or reels or videos.

If you also want to keep unknown or unwanted people away from your Instagram Account, then you can also keep the Account Private. If you want to do this, then you can do it with very easy steps.

How to Make Instagram Account Private?

There are different ways to make Insta account private from both smartphone and laptop.

How to make Instagram Account Private with Smartphone?

• First of all, you have to open your app
• Click on your profile icon at the bottom right corner.
• Now click on the three lines at the top right corner.
• Now go to ‘Settings’.
• Now go to ‘Privacy’.
• Here you will find the option of ‘Private Account’ at the top, turn it on with the toggle next to it.
• Your Instagram account has become a ‘Private Account’, now only those people who are your followers can see your account or posts and videos.

How to make your Instagram Account Private with Laptop or Mac?

• First of all, open your Instagram account in the browser.
• Click on the three lines appearing at the bottom left of the home page.
• Now go to Settings.
• Select the ‘Privacy and security’ option from the list on the left.
• Now at the top you will get the option of Private account, tick the box shown with it.
• Your account is now private.

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Conclusion

By following some easy steps, we tried to know how we can see photos and videos of a view private Instagram Profiles. And we saw that it is very difficult to see someone’s Instagram account without following it.