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Instagram essentials (CNET How To)

2018-02-06
it's hard to keep up with all the changes on your feed these days so let's take a look at a few of them and some tips on how to up your game Instagram changed the order of your feed and instead of seeing posts in chronological order you now see what Instagram wants you to see so here's the bad news there is no way to go back yes but there is a way to make sure you don't miss the posts from the people you want to see click on the three dots next to your favorite account and turn on post notifications any time they post you'll get a text alert on your screen the easiest way to test if you've gone overboard with your edits is to tap and hold your photo before you publish if you need to tone it down check for the black dot under the edit to figure out which ones you've just used and use the slider tool to adjust same goes for filters they're not an all-or-nothing deal tap the Sun icon to call up a slider for Lux this helps balance uneven exposure adding detail to areas with little or too much life if you're uploading multiple photos the filter will apply to all of them by default but you can also customize them one by one by pressing the icon on the bottom left if you have a few go to filters that you use all the time rearrange them to make sure they're at the top and just remove the ones you never use swipe to the right of the filters until you see this icon drag and drop to reorder or tap the checkmark to hide the ones you don't use fYI your activity on Instagram is now available for everyone to see on the message feed so if you'd rather keep that information private select the profile tab tap the Settings icon scroll down and toggle the off position on show activity status on Android open the profile tab tap the 3 on in the top corner scroll down and turn off show my activity status
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