How To View Your Old Bio On Instagram?
To view your old Instagram bios within the application, follow these steps:
- Open the Instagram app and tap on your profile icon at the bottom.
- Tap on the three horizontal line icon at the top right corner.
- Tap on
Your activity
. - Tap on
Account History
. - Scroll through your history until you find the desired old bio you want to view, and click the arrow icons beside
Bio
.
For a comprehensive archive of all old bio changes, including texts that cannot presently be seen via the Instagram application itself, you can access a more detailed record using the following procedure outside the app:
- Visit https://instagram.com in a web browser on desktop or mobile.
- Log in to your Instagram account.
- Select the personalized menu icon.
- Choose
Privacy and Security
, then scroll down and clickData Download
under the Data and History section. - Opt for the HTML format and proceed.
- Enter your Instagram password.
- Wait for approximately 1–14 days to receive an email containing a download link for your archived data.
- Follow the link provided in the email and download the zipped folder by clicking
Download information
. - Unzip the downloaded folder, search for the
account_information
subfolder. - Within this subfolder, open the
profile_changes.html
document. Locate sections titledProfile Bio Text
where you will find a chronologically organized series of your old profile descriptions (or bios).