Instagram allows us to share our pictures with our friends and if we compare it with other social apps, we might find it difficult in terms of sharing any kind of link through Instagram. When we use Instagram, a lot of posts appear on our Instagram feed and most of them have links. This app also provides us with the feature of links in-app which means you will be able to open the link you just clicked without leaving the app, and there is no need to open it using any other browser.
Instagram also keeps a track of each visited link. While checking out the stories of your friends, at times you will see an ad in the middle. Though after some time you might not remember the name of the brand or the product itself. But you can get the information via Instagram. It keeps a record of your history and what kind of ads you have gone through in your feed or the middle of the stories. You have an option to check out the recently seen ads on Instagram directly on your mobile.
Though there might be some differences in the steps if the choice of platform differs (android or iPhone). We will be explaining both platforms.
Steps to Check Recently Viewed Ads on Android
If you want to check the recent ads that you viewed either in your Instagram feed or in stories, you can check it out by visiting the settings section of Instagram.
- Step 1: Open Instagram on your mobile (Android).
- Step 2: Click on the icon of Avtar present at the bottom right side of your screen to go to your profile page.
- Step 3: Select the option of the menu present on the top right corner in the form of three horizontal lines.
- Step 4: Now go to the options of settings.
- Step 5: Scroll down to select the option of ads.
- Step 6: Click on the option of ‘Ad Activity’.
- Step 7: A list of sponsored ads will be displayed that you have recently viewed in your feed and stories.
You can see the recently viewed ad stories at the top of your screen. To check the recent ads viewed on your Instagram feed, you have to scroll down and search for them.
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Steps to Check Recently Viewed Ads on iPhone
The process to check out the recently viewed ads on iPhone is a bit different from Android.
To start With:
- Step 1: Open Instagram on your mobile (iPhone).
- Step 2: Click on the icon of Avtar present at the bottom right side of your screen to go to your profile page.
- Step 3: Select the option of the menu present on the top right corner in the form of a hamburger.
- Step 4: Now go to the options of settings.
- Step 5: Scroll down to select the option of ads.
- Step 6: Click on the option of ‘Ad Activity’ from the section of ‘General info’.
- Step 7: A list of sponsored ads will be displayed that you have recently viewed in your feed and stories.
You can see the recently viewed ad stories at the top of your screen and tap on them to see them again.
To check the recent ads viewed on your Instagram feed, you have to scroll down and search for it and tap on it to see that again.
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Steps to Check Frequented Links on Instagram
- Step 1: Open Instagram on your mobile.
- Step 2: Click on the icon of Avtar present at the bottom right side of your screen to go to your profile page.
- Step 3: Select the option of the menu present on the top right corner in the form of three horizontal lines.
- Step 4: Now go to the options of settings.
- Step 5: Click on the option of ‘Your Activity.
- Step 6: You can see two tabs of links and time.
- Step 7: Click on the link tab to check out the recently viewed link on Instagram.
The arrangement of the links in the tab is according to the data and the most recently viewed link will be present at the top. If you want to delete or hide the links, you can press and hold on to the link and the option of hiding or deleting will appear. Click on the option you want to opt for. If you are looking for any particular link, you have to scroll down and look for it because there is no option for a search. After you have found it out, just select the link.
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Conclusion
Using Instagram for sharing your pictures and videos is easy but to check out the recently viewed links or ads is a bit difficult but not an impossible task. Just go through with the instructions that we have described in the most meaningful way and try it. We hope that you won’t find any trouble further and might help your friends too who are facing issues to check out the recently viewed ads on their feed and in the middle of your stories.
