Clear your Instagram search history
Instagram saves searches in Search & Explore to make it easier for you to find your favorite accounts and hashtags again quickly.
Clear your search history in Accounts Center:
  1. Tap profile or your profile picture in the bottom right to go to your profile.
  2. Tap more options in the top right.
  3. Tap Accounts Center, then tap Your information and permissions.
  4. Tap Search history.
  5. Tap the account for which you'd like to clear recent searches.
  6. Tap next to a recent search to remove it from your search history.
Note: Not everyone will be able to access this setting in Accounts Center at this time.
If these steps don't work for you, try this:
Clear your search history
To clear your search history:
  1. Tap profile or your profile picture in the bottom right to go to your profile.
  2. Below How you use Instagram, tap Your activity.
  3. Tap Recent searches.
  4. Tap Clear all, then tap Clear all to confirm.
Keep in mind that clearing your search history is temporary, and that searches you clear may reappear in your history after you search for them again.
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