Instagram “saved posts” feature add-on

I have been a user of Instagram since my earliest days. I have seen the social media service evolve over time, and the features it offers has been a great motivation for me to use it. The first time I came across the ‘save posts’ feature, it was really exciting. I need not take a screenshot, I need not send it to someone else to keep the post in the chat, or save the link in my notes. It made life more convenient, since a lot of Instagram content is very inspiring and useful- since I follow some “Influencers” and life coaches.

But when I keep going through my saved posts, there are too many and I can’t find the one I am searching for!

The saved posts can also be categorized and can be saved as different groups. I believe this is a great idea, and this update helped me categorize and save all my workouts and travel destinations in different locations. Instagram comes up with great updates to be minimalistic, user intuitive and to help the task get done effectively.

But one of the pain point I observed while using the ‘saved posts’ feature is that- I have to scroll for a long time in my ‘workouts’ saved posts, to find a Dwayne Johnson post which I saved 2 years ago. I know that I saved his workout, but I cannot find it since I have a lot of saved workouts. This also happened when I saved a post from Discovery, since I wanted to travel to Puerto Rico. But when I searched through my ‘Travel bucket list’ saved posts, I couldn’t find it. This happens very often since I use Instagram a lot. So what is the solution I can think of?

I believe that having another option in the drop down of every Instagram page, be it Dwayne Johnson or Discovery, which shows the saved posts of that particular page, can solve this problem.

We usually remember who posted it, or which page usually posts it, and that information can be used to search for the saved post.

As shown in the mockup above (done on Figma), if there is an option to view the saved posts from that particular account, users can conveniently browse through a smaller filter of saved posts and find the post they are looking for far sooner; all they need to recollect is the Instagram account to which a post is associated with. Account-based “Saved Posts” can therefore be a time-efficient feature to enhance the user requirement of revisiting past content.