Instagram tagged posts can now live on your own profile grid. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced the change in a reel, saying the option is “starting to roll out today.” Until now, a friend’s photo of you stayed in the separate Tagged tab. Consequently, the only way to get it onto your grid was to repost it yourself.
“Small thing, but it should give you a bit more control over your profile,” Mosseri wrote in the caption. In the video, he calls it a way to add “any photo or video that you’re tagged in” to your grid.
How Add to grid works
There are three ways in. First, open your profile, switch to the Tagged tab, and long-press any post. An “Add to grid” option appears in the menu. Second, the same option sits behind the three-dot menu on the post itself. Third, Mosseri says the option also appears in the DM notification you receive when someone tags you.
The post keeps its original author. It simply appears on your grid alongside your own uploads, in reverse-chronological order by default. However, Instagram let users reorder the grid in June. So you can drag a tagged post wherever you like once it lands.
Privacy still follows both accounts
Adding a post to your grid does not make it public. According to Engadget’s report, the Add to grid button carries a privacy notice. Who can see the post depends on both accounts’ privacy settings. In other words, a private friend’s photo stays visible only to the people who could already see it. Meanwhile, the tagged user does not gain any editing rights over the original.
Changing your mind is easy. Remove the post from your grid and it drops back to the Tagged tab. You do not need to untag yourself, and nothing is deleted.
Why Instagram keeps tweaking the profile
This is the latest in a run of profile changes. Instagram moved to taller grid thumbnails in early 2025, then shipped grid reordering this June after a year of waiting. Now tagged posts join the mix. Together, the changes point the same way. The profile is becoming something you curate rather than a timeline you cannot touch. For creators and small businesses, customer photos and collaborations can now sit on the main grid without a repost.
Additionally, Instagram is leaning on the profile as a hub for its newer products. Those range from the Instants disappearing-photo app to the feed recommendation controls it added in June. The rollout is gradual. If you do not see Add to grid yet, check back after the next app update.
