How to find a post you liked on instagram

It's not as intuitive as you think

What to Know

• Tap profile > menu icon (three lines) > Your activity > Interactions > Likes.
• You can only view the 300 most recent posts that you've liked.

This article explains how to view posts you've previously liked on Instagram.

Where to Find Your Most Recently Liked Instagram Posts

Open your Instagram app and sign in to your account. Then follow these steps to find a list of previously liked posts.

1. In the lower-right corner, tap the profile icon.

2. In the upper-right corner, tap the menu icon (three lines).

3. Choose Your Activity.

4. Select Interactions.

5. Tap Likes to open a screen of your most recent likes. The default is to display the likes from newest to oldest.

6. Scroll down for older likes or tap Sort & filter to specify a date range or sort from oldest to newest.

Reasons to View Your Previous Likes

Being able to access posts you've previously liked is suitable for a lot of things. Go back to view what you've already liked so you can:

• Find new accounts to follow from posts you've liked previously.
• Read a post's long caption that you didn't have time to read when you liked it.
• Read more comments to follow along with a discussion on a particular post as additional people see it in their feeds.
• Leave a comment of your own on a post that you liked but didn't have time to type something out at the moment.
• Revisit helpful information you want to check out in detail later—like a product, service, contest, workout routine, recipe, makeup tutorial, or something else.

What you like on Instagram isn't just a friendly gesture to let the poster know you approve of their post. It's a beneficial way to bookmark things that are interesting and valuable enough to look at again.

Limitations to Revisiting Liked Posts

According to Instagram's Help page, you'll only be able to see the 300 most recent posts (photos and videos) you've liked. That's still a lot, but if you're an Instagram power user who likes hundreds of posts a day or you feel the need to look for something you liked several weeks ago, you may be out of luck.

Liked posts are displayed if you liked them while using the Instagram mobile app or Instagram on the web. However, you can only see liked posts in the app. It's unclear if any posts you liked through a third-party app for Instagram like Iconosquare show up, but if it doesn't work for Instagram's web platform, likely, it won't work for third-party apps either.

If you commented on a photo or video but didn't also like it, there's no way to find it again if you lose it. You'll only be able to see posts you've liked by tapping the heart button (or double-tapping the post) on the Likes screen.

So if you want to be able to revisit a post later, make sure you hit that heart button, even if your main intention is to leave a comment.

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FAQ

• How do you remove posts you liked on Instagram?

  If you no longer want to like a post, open that post and tap the heart icon to unlike it. This removes it from the Likes list.

• How do you see posts others have liked on Instagram?

  Select a specific post and tap "X likes" to see all the people who liked that post.

• How do you hide likes on Instagram?

  If you don't want to see the total number of likes and views on posts from other accounts, go to Settings > Privacy > Posts and flip the Hide Like and View Counts toggle to On. To hide the like counts on your own posts, go into your feed and tap the three dots next to a post and choose Hide like count.

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An average Instagram user sees hundreds of posts on the photo and video-sharing platform every day. Unless you actively save Instagram posts you wish to return to or like them, you might have a difficult time trying to see the same post again. The good news is that Instagram has an easy way to let you view all posts you have liked so far. And not just that, we will also detail how to see posts that your friends have liked on Instagram.

Check Liked Posts on Instagram (2022)

View Posts You Have Liked on Instagram

1. Open your Instagram profile using the bottom navigation bar and tap on the hamburger menu at the top-right corner. From the pop-up menu that appears, select “Your activity”.

2. Here, tap on “Interactions” and select “Likes” to view the posts you have liked on Instagram.

3. You will now see all the posts you have liked so far, including images, videos, and Reels. You can sort these posts by newest to oldest and vice versa, specify a duration, or even filter posts from a specific Instagram user. All you have to do is press the “Sort & filter” option at the top-right corner to apply the filters.

See Your Friend’s Liked Posts on Instagram

While we have discussed the steps involved to see posts you have liked via your account, some of you might be wondering if there is also an option to see what all your friends have liked on Instagram. In fact, Instagram had a “Following” tab that listed all liked posts until October 2019.

Although we don’t have a method to check liked posts of others right now, reliable app reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi recently spotted that the company may be working to bring back this feature behind the scenes. We will have to wait and see if it materializes though.

Until then, you will have to manually visit your friend’s followers list and check recent posts from other creator’s to know if your friend has liked any posts recently. This approach may be effective if you want to know whether your friends have liked posts of specific people. Here’s how to do that:

1. Open your friend’s Instagram profile and tap the “Following” section. From there, open the profile of the person you would like to check the likes on.

2. Scroll through their posts, and you will see “Liked by <friend name>” above the post’s caption if your friend has liked the post. If you have multiple mutual friends with this third person, you could also tap the like counter to view the complete likes list. Needless to say, the person should either have a public profile, or you should follow them for this method to work.

Keep Track of Liked Posts on Instagram

So, those are the two methods you can use to check the posts you have liked on Instagram. If you want to revisit the Instagram Reels you’ve been watching all this time, feel free to go through our guide on how to check your Instagram Reels watch history. And for more such cool tips, check our guide on the best Instagram tips and tricks via the link here.