How to see who reposted your post on Instagram, and what Instagram will not tell you

To see who reposted your post on Instagram, open the app, go to Home and tap the heart in the top right. Reposts normally appear in your notifications as a line like reposted your post, with the account's name, and you can tap it to open their profile. If you have a professional account, View insights on the post shows how many times it was reposted, but not by whom. There is no screen that lists everyone.

That answer comes from people filming the app, not from Instagram. Instagram's own page on reposting explains how to repost, how to find your own reposts and how to stop other people reposting you. It never says how to see who reposted you, and it does not mention a notification at all. So the rest of this page separates what Instagram documents from what the app is shown to do, and covers the share most people mean when they say repost, which for a reel Instagram says you cannot see.

Repost, share, send: which ones you can see

Most of the confusion on this question is three different actions with one word. Instagram added a real repost button in August 2025, which shows as two arrows in the app, and since then a repost and a share to a Story are separate things with separate rules.

How to see who reposted your post or reel

There are three places, and they answer three different questions: who, how many, and whether one particular person did.

Who: your notifications

• Open Instagram and go to Home.
• Tap the heart in the top right.
• Look for reposted your post or reposted your reel.
• Tap the notification to open the repost or the person's profile.

This is the only place the app shows reposters by name, and it is a feed of activity, not a list per post: you scroll for it, and nothing gathers one post's reposts in one place. For a post from months ago that is a long scroll. Two of the videos also hedge that the notification appears only where Instagram offers it for that account, which fits the line at the top of Instagram's own page: This feature may not be available to everyone.

How to See Who Reposted Your Instagram Post (Explainic, August 2026)

The video above, from August 2026, does both halves on one post: View insights first, where the Engagement section shows a repost count of one and nothing else, then back to Home and the heart for the name. We read the full transcript before choosing it, and it sells nothing.

How many: Insights on a professional account

Open the post, tap View insights, and look under engagement or interactions for Reposts. It is a number. Tapping it does not open a list, and in one of the videos (Tech Guru Support, June 2026) tapping the repost count on the post reposts it instead. The same number is what tools and dashboards get from Meta: its developer documentation lists a `reposts` metric for feed posts, reels and stories, defined as the number of reposts on the media minus the number of deleted reposts, and Meta's April 2026 API update adds a matching Reposts Count field, the number of times a post or reel has been reposted by other users. Neither mentions names.

Net of deleted reposts matters if you watch the number: it can go down. Somebody who reposts and then removes it disappears from the count.

Whether one person did: their Reposts tab

Instagram's page says reposts will appear in a dedicated repost tab on your profile, meaning the reposter's profile. So to check one account, open their profile and tap the tab with the two arrows. That works for a public account, or a private one you follow, since the tab is part of the profile and who can see a profile depends on its privacy setting.

There is a fourth, smaller signal. When people you follow have reposted your post, the post itself can show them in the bottom left with any note they added, and you can reply. The second video shows it, from July 2026, using the creator's own second account:

How To See Who Reposted Instagram Post (JustBOZ, July 2026)

What Instagram's help page actually covers

Instagram's page, Repost a reel or a post on Instagram, is short and worth reading once, because three of its rules explain most missing reposts:

• Only public reels and posts can be reposted, and only if the original creator allows reposts.
• You cannot repost a repost. Only content posted by the original creator can be reposted.
• It is app only. The page says the feature is not available on computers, so there is nothing to find on instagram.com in a browser.

One more line on that page matters to a business: Other Instagram users can comment on your repost and these comments will appear as direct messages to you. Comments on a repost of your post go to the reposter as direct messages, so a conversation about your post can happen in someone else's inbox.

Shares to a Story: Instagram says you cannot see who

When someone taps the paper plane under your post and then Add to story, that is not a repost, and it does not land in a Reposts tab. Instagram's page on sharing a post to your story is blunt about what you get:

You won't be able to see who has reshared your reel or where they have shared it to, regardless of whether you have a private or public account.

The usual way you find out is a mention: a Story that tags you normally shows up in your notifications and messages while it is live. Without a tag, a Story share shows up, at most, inside the shares number in Insights, which one of the videos describes as direct messages and Story shares together.

For photo posts, several guides send you to View Story Reshares in the post's menu, and one of the videos, from March 2026, still shows it on a professional account. Instagram's pages do not mention it, so treat it as something your app may or may not have, and do not expect it on a reel.

Should a business let people repost it?

For most businesses, reposts should stay allowed. A repost puts your post, with your name on it, in front of the reposter's followers, and Instagram's page on original content recommends it over copying: accounts that want to share other people's posts without material edits should repost or share to stories, which it describes as ways to make sure the original creator receives credit and reach. A screenshot reupload gives you neither.

The reasons to turn it off are narrow: a post about a person who did not agree to wider reach, a time limited offer you do not want circulating after it ends, or a team photo. Instagram's page documents only an account-wide switch, so it turns reposts off for everything:

• Go to your profile and tap Menu in the top right.
• Tap Sharing and reuse, below How others can interact with you.
• Turn off the toggle next to Reposts on posts and reels.

How to see, remove or bulk delete your own reposts

If what you are after is the list of things you reposted, Instagram documents that fully. Your reposts are in the tab with the two arrows on your profile. To remove one, open it and tap Repost again. To clear several at once:

• Go to your profile and tap Menu.
• Tap Your activity, then Reposts.
• Select each reel or post you want to remove and tap Delete.

Why a repost you expected is not there

• It was a share to a Story, not a repost. Most people still say repost for that. For a reel it shows nowhere unless you were mentioned.
• The notification is far back. Notifications are a feed, not an archive per post. If you know who it might be, check their Reposts tab instead.
• They removed it. The Insights count is net of deleted reposts, and the tab no longer shows it.
• Their profile is private and you do not follow them. You cannot open their Reposts tab.
• You reposted it yourself, or it was a repost of a repost. Instagram does not allow the second at all.
• Reposts are turned off on your account, so nobody could repost it. Check Sharing and reuse.

What other guides get wrong

We read eleven of the guides that rank for this search, in full, on 29 October 2026. One was written before the repost button existed, and several describe the share to a Story as if it were a repost.

The guides that get it right, Instagram's own page among them, share one limitation: none of them can show you a complete list, because Instagram does not keep one you can see. Be wary of any app or site that offers to. Several "repost viewers" work the other way round, listing what a public account has reposted, which you can see in the app already; anything asking for your Instagram password to show who reposted you is asking for your account.

What our app shows about your posts

We make a tool that designs and publishes posts, so this is the honest version for our own customers. For posts published through it, our analytics reads reach, likes, comments and saves from Instagram. It does not read reposts yet, so the place to see who reposted a post we published is the same as for any other post: your notifications, and the post's insights in the app. A post published through our app is an ordinary post on your profile, and whether people can repost it is decided by your account's Sharing and reuse setting, as above.