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How to Delete Multiple Posts on Instagram

How to Delete Multiple Posts on Instagram

Instagram lets you delete several posts in one go from Your activity: open Posts under Content you shared, tap Select, tick the posts, then Delete and confirm. The film selects both posts on the operator’s account and reaches the confirmation dialog - but the final Delete is never tapped on camera, so nothing is actually deleted in the film.

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  • SystemAndroid
  • AppInstagram
  • Last verifiedNovember 15, 2026

Every screenshot below is taken from the actual recording on this device — no stock images.

Steps

Open Instagram

On the home screen, tap the Instagram icon.

Open Instagram

Go to your profile

In Instagram, tap your profile picture at the bottom right.

Go to your profile

Tap the menu

On your profile, tap the three lines at the top right. This opens Settings and activity directly - no separate menu sheet appears.

Tap the menu

Tap Your activity

On the Settings and activity page, scroll down to How you use Instagram and tap Your activity.

Tap Your activity

Tap Posts

On the Your activity page, scroll down to Content you shared and tap Posts.

Tap Posts

Tap Select

On the Posts page, tap Select at the top right to enter selection mode.

Tap Select

Select the posts to delete

Tap each post you want to delete. Here both of the account’s posts are selected - the bottom bar reads Archive (2) and Delete (2).

Select the posts to delete

Tap Delete

Tap the red Delete (2) at the bottom right. Archive, on the left, would hide the posts without deleting them.

Tap Delete

Check the confirmation dialog

Instagram asks ‘Delete posts? Are you sure you want to delete these posts?’ The film ends on this dialog - the final Delete is not tapped on camera, so the posts are not actually deleted in the film. Tap Delete here to finish.

Check the confirmation dialog

Good to know

  1. The deletion is not shown completing: the film ends on the ‘Delete posts? Are you sure you want to delete these posts?’ dialog with the final Delete untapped. To finish, tap Delete in that dialog.
  2. Archive is the non-destructive alternative on the same bar: archived posts leave your profile but stay saved. Deleted posts first land in Recently deleted - the row is visible on the Your activity page - rather than vanishing at once.
  3. You can narrow the list first: the Posts page offers sorting (newest to oldest or oldest to newest) and filters by date and location. The film opens the Sort by and Filter by date sheets but does not apply a filter - both posts are selected without one.
  4. Only posts are covered here: Reels and Highlights sit in their own rows under Content you shared.
  5. The film’s account is the operator’s own @the_help_screen, with 2 posts, 0 followers and 3 following - both of its posts are the black squares selected for deletion.
  6. The same Select route works for a single post too - just tick one instead of several.

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