On social media, anything can go viral if used correctly. However, there are people who avoid virality and prefer to keep a slightly lower profile. If you are one of them, the Instagram option that allows you to remix content and turn it into reels will surely seem crazy to you.
If you have a public profile, anyone can take one of your posts and create something totally new with it, both for better and for worse. Besides, in the remix it is warned that the original content is yours, something that helps to identify your account much more easily.
If this is a problem for you, then you are in luck for having reached this article. The reason? Because it is an option that can be deactivated and save you a bad drink. How can you do it? By following our tutorial on how to prevent your Instagram photos and videos from being reeled .
Prevent others from using your Instagram photos and videos
to create reels
To prevent your Instagram posts from being reused by other users on their reels, you must disable remixing in your account. This is one of the privacy options that Instagram has and accessing it is really simple, just do the following:
- Open the Instagram app on your mobile and go to your profile .
- Display the options menu by pressing the icon with the three horizontal stripes.
- Enter the Instagram settings by pressing the gear button.
- Click on “Privacy” .
- Tap on “Reels and remix” .
- Remove all remix permissions for your account.
Specifically, you will disable permission to use your posts to remix reels. There is an individual permission for each type of content (videos, photos or your own reels), so you can choose, although you may want to disable them all.
Once you do this, no user will be able to use your content to create new ones, at least directly from the application. Why do we make this caveat? Because there are third-party apps that allow you to download Instagram photos and videos easily, such as SSSGram. Thus, anyone can use them to download your content and then reuse it, but at least you close the official window for those users.
And speaking of users who use content from others, if you are worried that someone is secretly looking at your Instagram profile, we teach you how to find out.
