Turn off suggested posts on Instagram for good

Can you turn off suggested posts on Instagram?

For 30 days at a time. Instagram's control for the "Suggested for you" posts in your Home feed is a snooze: tap the X on one of them, choose "Snooze all suggested posts for 30 days", and they are gone until day 31. Instagram described the control that way on August 30, 2022, and as of October 24, 2026 I found no announcement of a longer option or a permanent one. The Following feed shows no suggestions either, but you pick it from Home each time; the app itself opens on Home.

Toggle (toggle.social) is an iPhone app that opens Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X, Threads, Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook and Snapchat inside one app, with the parts built to keep you scrolling switched off. On Instagram, its Hide Suggested switch is on when you start, and it stays on until you change it: a switch rather than a snooze. The rest of your Home feed, Stories, DMs, posting and search keep working. This page is only about suggested posts; the hub Instagram without the scroll covers every other surface, and Reels and Explore each have a page of their own.

How to snooze suggested posts for 30 days

1. Open Instagram and scroll your Home feed until you reach a post marked "Suggested for you".
2. Tap the X at the top right of that post (or the three-dot menu, then Not interested).
3. Tap "Snooze all suggested posts for 30 days".

Suggested posts leave your Home feed. The Reels tab, Explore and suggested Reels inside them are untouched; the snooze is a Home feed setting. On day 31 the suggested posts return and the steps start over. There is no reminder when the snooze ends, so most people notice when a stranger's post appears between two friends.

Why suggested posts come back

Instagram's feed used to end. On July 2, 2018 it added "You're All Caught Up", a line that appears "when you've seen every post from the last two days" from accounts you follow. For a while the posts beneath that line were older ones. Then came suggestions: posts "from accounts you don't follow but may be interested in", in Instagram's words, shown below the line and, in the current app, between posts from people you follow as well. The line still appears, and the feed no longer ends at it.

A feed that never ends is the product. A permanent off switch for suggestions would give back the stopping point the 2018 line created, so Instagram offers the 30-day version and the per-post Not interested instead, both of which keep the suggestion system running while you adjust it. Why a feed with no end is hard to leave is covered in its own guide on this site.

Every Instagram control for suggested posts, and how long it lasts

Checked October 24, 2026. Menu labels move between versions; search Settings and activity for the name if a path has changed.

The Following and Favorites feeds

Tap the Instagram logo at the top left of Home. Following shows "posts just from accounts you follow, starting with the most recent post first" with "no suggested posts in this view", going back 30 days. Favorites does the same for up to 50 accounts you choose, and those accounts also rank higher in the normal Home feed. Both are the closest thing Instagram has to a feed without suggestions, and both are views you select after the app has opened on Home. A page on landing in the Following feed every time is coming to this site.

Reset suggested content

Profile, the three-bar More options icon, Content preferences, Reset suggested content. Meta announced it on November 19, 2024: it clears "your recommended content across Explore, Reels and Feed" and offers to review the accounts you follow while you're there. Your recommendations "will start to personalize again over time". A reset changes which posts are suggested, starting from scratch. It does not change whether posts are suggested; the first one appears as soon as Instagram has something to show.

Sensitive Content Control

Standard, More or Less sets how much content Instagram thinks you might find upsetting shows up in Explore, Search, Reels and in-feed recommendations, from accounts you don't follow only. It is a safety filter, not a volume knob: Less does not mean fewer suggested posts.

Toggle's Hide Suggested switch: on when you start

In Toggle, Instagram's Hide Suggested switch is on from the first load. Suggested posts leave the Home feed and don't come back on day 31, because there is no day 31; the switch stays where you put it. Unlike Toggle's Hide Reels and Hide Explore, which are locked and can only be shown for five minutes at a time, Hide Suggested can be turned off whenever you want suggestions back.

Hold the Toggle switch at the bottom of Instagram for a moment to open the options sheet. Hide Suggested sits with the other Instagram switches: Hide Reels and Hide Explore (always on), and Hide Home, Hide Stories, Hide Like counts, Hide Comments and Grayscale, which are off when you start. Changing a switch applies at once, and turning a hidden part back on reloads only what needs it.

Your Home feed with Hide Suggested on is posts from accounts you follow, with Stories above unless you hide them. Direct messages, posting, profiles, search and notifications keep working, and comments open in a native sheet. You sign in to Instagram directly; Toggle has no account system and the cookies stay on your iPhone.

Where Toggle isn't the answer

Toggle runs on iPhone (iOS 17 or later). There is no Android app; on a computer the free Chrome extension has a Suggested switch for instagram.com. The iPhone app is free to download and paid after the 7-day trial, $6.99 a week or $99 a year in the US on October 24, 2026, with the details on Toggle pricing. If you want suggestions gone for free, the honest list is the 30-day snooze on your phone and the extension on your computer.

Toggle uses Instagram's mobile website inside a native shell, so a few app-only features may be missing, and when Instagram changes its pages a switch can stop working until Toggle updates. If the real Instagram app stays on your phone, its feed is unchanged; Toggle can block it with Apple's Screen Time, an optional step covered in Block the real apps with Screen Time.