How to choose who can tag or mention you on Instagram

If you want to limit the mentions or tags your account receives, you can choose who is allowed from the Instagram iPhone app. The app has a control for each action; this walkthrough shows where to choose each audience and what each setting covers.

Choose who can mention you

The mention setting controls who can link your account in Stories, comments, and captions. In the Instagram iPhone app:

1. Tap Profile or your profile picture in the bottom right.
2. Tap Menu in the top right.
3. Under How others can interact with you, tap Tags and mentions.
4. Under Who can @mention you, tap the circle next to the audience you want to allow.

You can allow mentions from everyone, limit them to accounts you follow, or allow none, depending on the options available for your account. Someone outside your selected audience will see that you don’t allow mentions from everyone. Meta explains these audience options.

Choose who can tag you

Tags apply to other people’s photos and videos. Repeat Profile → Menu → How others can interact with you → Tags and mentions, then look for Who can tag you. Tap the circle next to the audience you want to allow; the help gives Allow tags from everyone and Don’t allow tags as examples. Someone outside the selected audience will see that you don’t allow tags from everyone.

The settings are independent: changing who can mention you does not replace your choice of who can tag you.

If a tagged post appears on your profile

By default, a photo or video you’re tagged in is added to your profile automatically unless Instagram detects it as potential spam. The help also says you can manage whether tagged posts appear automatically or manually. This visibility setting is separate from choosing who can tag you. If you want to remove an already tagged post from your profile without deleting the original, see how to hide or show tagged Instagram posts.

This setting chooses who can mention or tag you; don’t use it as a way to remove an existing tag. Read Instagram’s help about who can mention or tag you.