How to Delete a Repost on Instagram (Reels, Posts & Stories)

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To delete a repost on Instagram, go to your profile, open the Reposts tab, open the repost you want gone, tap the highlighted repost icon, and confirm Remove repost — about ten seconds. Removing a repost only deletes your share of the content — the original reel or post stays exactly where it always was, on the creator’s profile — and Instagram does not notify anyone that you removed it.

If the Reposts tab is new to you, that is normal. Instagram rolled out native reposts to everyone in 2025, and every public reel or feed post you repost now lands in a dedicated Reposts tab on your profile, where anyone who visits can scroll through it. This guide covers the fast manual removal, the three different things people call a “repost,” and what to do when the cleanup is bigger than one tap.

How to Delete a Repost on Instagram: Quick Steps

Open Instagram and go to your profile.
Tap the Reposts tab next to your grid.
Open the repost you want to remove.
Tap the highlighted repost icon on it.
Tap Remove repost and confirm.

The repost disappears from your profile immediately. If you do not see a Reposts tab at all, you have no active native reposts — whatever you are trying to delete is probably a story reshare or a repost-app post, both covered below.

The Three Kinds of Instagram Reposts

“Repost” means three different things on Instagram, and each one is removed in a different place. Knowing which one you are dealing with saves you from hunting through the wrong menu.

1. Native reposts (the Reposts tab)

This is the official feature. When you tap the two-arrow repost icon on a public reel or feed post, Instagram adds it to the Reposts tab on your profile and can surface it to your followers in their feeds, together with any note you attached. The icon works as a toggle: open the repost, tap the repost icon again, choose Remove repost, and the share — note included — is gone.

2. Story reshares

Tapping the paper-plane icon and choosing to add it to your story creates a story reshare, not a repost. It never touches the Reposts tab. It sits with your other stories and expires on its own after about 24 hours; to remove it sooner, follow how to delete an Instagram story.

3. Feed shares made with repost apps

Before native reposts existed, third-party repost apps re-uploaded other people’s content as a brand-new post on your own grid, usually with a credit caption. Instagram treats those as your posts, full stop. They live in your main grid, not in the Reposts tab, and you remove one the same way you delete any of your own posts.

Removing Many Reposts or Shares at Once

Instagram has no bulk un-repost button. Native reposts have to be toggled off one at a time — the only mercy is that the Reposts tab lists them all in one place, so even a few dozen can be cleared in a single sitting. For reposts and everything else on your profile, see the full guide to cleaning up your Instagram profile.

The genuinely slow problem is usually the old repost-app shares, because they are mixed into your real grid as ordinary posts, sometimes years deep. Deleting hundreds of grid items by hand is exactly the kind of job that stalls after twenty minutes. Since Instagram counts them as your own posts, reels, and carousels, they can be bulk deleted with the workflow in how to delete Instagram posts, photos, reels, and carousels.

That is where Unpost fits. Its bulk delete on Instagram signs in through Instagram’s own login page inside the app and removes your posts, reels, carousels, DMs, likes, and comments, with date and engagement filters to target the right items. Free accounts get 50 deletions per connected account per day; Premium removes that cap. Unpost does not toggle off native reposts — those stay a quick manual job in the Reposts tab.

Clean Up Your Grid

Bulk delete old posts, reels, and repost-app shares.

Get Unpost

Runs are slow on purpose, to protect your account from a ban. Avoid opening or using Instagram while one is in progress, and on an iPhone keep the app in the foreground. If Instagram rate limits you, wait a couple of hours before starting again.

What Removing a Repost Actually Changes

Your Reposts tab. The item disappears immediately, and once the last repost is removed the tab itself usually stops showing on your profile.
Follower feeds. Instagram stops surfacing the content to your followers on your behalf, and any note you attached vanishes with the repost.
The original. Nothing happens to it. The creator’s post keeps its place, its views, and its likes.
Your other activity. Removing a repost does not remove your like or comment on the original — those are separate cleanups.
Notifications. Nobody is alerted, not the creator and not your followers.

You can also repost the same content again later if you change your mind — the toggle works in both directions.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does removing a repost on Instagram notify the original creator?

No. Instagram sends no notification when you remove a repost. The share simply disappears from your profile and from your followers' feeds, and the creator is not told.

Where is the Reposts tab on Instagram?

It sits on your own profile, next to your grid, reels, and tagged tabs. The tab only shows up once you have reposted at least one public reel or feed post.

What is the difference between a story reshare and a repost?

A story reshare lives with your stories and disappears on its own after 24 hours. A native repost stays in your profile's Reposts tab until you remove it yourself.

Can I remove many Instagram reposts at once?

Not native ones: Instagram has no bulk option, so each is removed from the Reposts tab individually. Repost-app shares are ordinary posts, so those can be bulk deleted.

Does the original post stay after I delete my repost?

Yes. Removing a repost only deletes your share of the content. The original post or reel stays untouched on the creator's profile, along with its views and likes.