After years of requests, Instagram caves in; you can now reorder your profile

Following years of requests and complaints about the recent graphical changes, Instagram caves in and introduces a long-awaited feature for creators: the ability to freely rearrange posts on your profile.

Moving away from the rigid chronological order, users can now customize their grid with a few simple taps, improving its aesthetics.

Instagram: now it’s possible to reorder the profile grid

Instagram, which remains firmly the second or third-largest social network in the world behind its sister platform Facebook, has undergone a rather complex period of transition.

Users are posting fewer and fewer traditional photographs, a trend that prompted leadership to implement in 2025 a major visual update.

This change has given clear precedence to Reels and Direct Messages, considered the true drivers of recent growth, however transforming the classic grid of squares into a sequence of overlapping rectangles.

This change has generated widespread discontent, particularly among content creators who value aesthetics, who had devoted countless hours to organizing their posts to create large, cohesive and harmonious images.

In this context of ongoing tweaks, a recent post immediately drew the online community’s attention. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram’s division, posted a short but eloquent message accompanied by the caption “Finally“.

The executive thus officially announced the release of a feature that had been anticipated last January and that resolves the frustrations accumulated over the past months: the ability to reorganize freely the content within your own profile.

The app thus breaks away from the strictly chronological order that has characterized it in a rigid and immovable way since its birth.

How the new profile management works

From a practical standpoint, the entire operation has been designed to be extremely intuitive and is performed with just a few taps on the screen.

Users who want to reshuffle their gallery simply need to long-press the specific post they want to move. At that point, an options menu appears from which it is enough to select the dedicated option for rearranging the grid, allowing you to drag the image or video to the new desired position.

There remains one essential final step: remember to save the changes once the visual layout meets your creative needs.