Where Do Instagram Reposts Go? Every Place They Appear
Instagram reposts go to two places: a Reposts tab on your own profile, and the feeds of people who follow you. They do not go into your grid, so your own photos and reels stay exactly as you arranged them and a repost never pushes one of your posts down. Anyone who can see your profile can open that tab and scroll everything you have reposted, which on a public account means everyone. The original post is unaffected wherever your repost appears: it keeps its own likes, its own comments and its own audience, because a repost points at a post rather than copying it. This page covers every place a repost shows up, why yours might be missing, what happens when the original is deleted, and how to find another account's reposts. InstaBoost is a UK service selling Instagram reposts, followers, likes, reel views, story views, saves and shares, priced in pounds and paid through PayPal, with no account to create and no password ever requested. The minimum reposts order is fifty.
What this costs on InstaBoost
| Reposts | Price | Per 1,000 | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | £0.79 | £15.80 | Order 50 reposts |
| 100 | £0.99 | £9.90 | Order 100 reposts |
| 250 | £1.79 | £7.16 | Order 250 reposts |
| 500 | £2.49 | £4.98 | Order 500 reposts |
| 1,000 | £3.99 | £3.99 | Order 1,000 reposts |
| 2,500 | £8.99 | £3.60 | Order 2,500 reposts |
| 5,000 | £16.99 | £3.40 | Order 5,000 reposts |
| 10,000 | £31.99 | £3.20 | Order 10,000 reposts |
The Reposts tab on your profile is the main home
Reposts collect in their own tab on your profile, sitting alongside your grid rather than inside it. Open your profile, look along the row of tabs above your posts, and the reposts icon holds everything you have passed along, newest first.
The tab is cumulative and permanent until you remove an entry yourself. That makes it a running record rather than a feed, and people trying to work out what an account is about often read it more carefully than the grid, because a grid is curated and a Reposts tab is not.
Who can see it follows your own privacy setting exactly. A public profile means anyone can open the tab; a private profile means only accepted followers can. There is no setting that keeps a Reposts tab hidden while the rest of a public profile stays open.
Start at the minimum on one post
Fifty reposts is the smallest order we take on any service. Post link only, no password, paid in pounds with the price shown in the table above.
They also land in your followers' feeds
A repost can appear in the feeds of people who follow you, shown as your repost of someone else's post with your name attached. That is the reach half of reposting, and it is the reason creators generally welcome being reposted.
Whether a specific follower sees it works the same way as any other post: Instagram decides what to show each person, so a repost reaching some followers and not others is normal rather than a fault.
The engagement lands on the original post, not on a copy. Likes and comments given to your repost belong to the post you reposted, which is exactly what makes a repost a credit rather than a re-upload.
Make a good post look widely passed on
A repost count reads as a stronger signal than a like, because it costs the person doing it a slot on their own profile. Delivery completes within twenty-four hours.
Reposts never go into your grid
Your grid stays untouched. A repost is not added to your photo and reel grid, it does not change your post count, and it cannot displace something you posted yourself. This is the single most useful thing to know about the feature, because it means reposting freely costs your profile layout nothing.
It also means reposting is not a way to fill a quiet week. Someone landing on your profile sees your grid first, and a Reposts tab full of other people's work does not read as your own output.
If you want a reposted post inside your grid, the only route is asking the creator for permission and posting the content yourself with a credit. That is a different thing from a repost, and it should always be asked for rather than assumed.
For a launch post that has to travel
A thousand reposts suits a campaign post rather than an ordinary weekly one. Keep the post up and the account public until delivery has finished.
Why you cannot find a repost you made
Four things explain almost every missing repost, and they are quick to check in order. Start with your own profile tab, then look at what happened to the original post.
The most common cause is that the original was deleted or made private by its owner. A repost points at the original rather than storing a copy, so when the original goes, your repost has nothing left to show and disappears with it.
The rest are simpler. You may have removed it yourself, the app may need updating on your phone, or you may be looking at a different account if you manage more than one. None of these is recoverable by contacting anyone, so it is worth checking all four before assuming something is broken.
- The original post was deleted by the account that published it.
- The original account switched to private, or blocked you.
- You removed the repost yourself from your Reposts tab.
- Your app needs updating, or you are signed into a different account.
- The creator turned off resharing after you reposted.
Finding another account's reposts
Open their profile and look for the reposts tab in the same row as their grid. If the account is public, you can scroll everything they have reposted without following them and without them being told you looked.
If there is no tab, the account has not reposted anything, or the account is private and you are not an accepted follower. There is no search that lists reposts across Instagram, so browsing the profile is the only route.
Reading someone's reposts is a genuinely useful way to judge an account before working with them. It shows what they choose to associate their name with, which is more revealing than a grid they had time to plan.
Where a bought reposts count actually shows
A bought reposts order raises the repost count on one specific post of yours, and that number is what other people read. It signals that the post travelled, which matters because passing a post along costs the person doing it a slot on their own profile, unlike a like.
It does not add followers, it does not choose who sees the post, and no supplier can promise Instagram will leave every repost in place. Those are the honest limits of what the service does.
Keep the size proportionate to the account. A repost count far larger than the likes on the same post reads oddly to anyone who looks, which is why the minimum here is fifty rather than something enormous.
How a reposts order works here
The minimum reposts order is fifty. You give the link to the post you want them on, and no password is ever requested, because delivery works entirely from the outside of a public profile.
Delivery starts within minutes of payment clearing and the order completes within nought to twenty-four hours, paced across that window rather than arriving at once. Payment is in pounds through PayPal, and there is no account to create on this site.
Your account must stay public and the post must stay up for the whole delivery, since a deleted post ends the order and it cannot be moved elsewhere. Every order carries a thirty-day refill covering any drop inside that month, and the price for each quantity is in the table at the top of this page.
Questions people ask before ordering
Where do Instagram reposts go?
They go to a Reposts tab on your own profile and into the feeds of people who follow you. They never go into your grid, so your own posts stay exactly where you put them. Anyone who can see your profile can open the tab and scroll everything you have reposted.
Do reposts show up in my grid or change my post count?
No. A repost sits in its own tab beside the grid, does not add to your post count and cannot push one of your own posts down. If you want reposted content inside your grid, you have to ask the creator for permission and post it yourself with a credit.
Why has my repost disappeared?
The usual reason is that the original post was deleted or made private by its owner, because a repost points at the original rather than storing a copy. Other causes are removing it yourself, the creator turning off resharing, an app that needs updating, or being signed into a different account.
Can people see everything I have reposted?
Yes, if your account is public. The Reposts tab is cumulative and stays that way until you remove an entry, so it reads as a record of what you chose to pass along. On a private account, only your accepted followers can see it.
How do I see someone else's reposts?
Open their profile and look for the reposts tab in the same row as their grid. If the account is public you can scroll it without following them, and they are not told that you looked. There is no way to search reposts across Instagram, so browsing the profile is the only route.
Do likes on my repost go to me or the original creator?
They go to the original post. A repost points at the post rather than copying it, so the likes and comments belong to the account that published it. That is what makes a repost a public credit rather than a re-upload.
Can I buy reposts, and what does the count show?
Yes. A bought order raises the repost count on one specific post of yours, which signals that the post travelled. The minimum here is fifty, ordered against the post link with no password, paid in pounds through PayPal. It does not add followers or choose who sees the post.
How long does a reposts order take?
Delivery starts within minutes of payment clearing and completes within nought to twenty-four hours, paced rather than dropped in one go. The account must stay public and the post must stay up throughout. Every order carries a thirty-day refill covering any drop inside that month.