# \[Instagram Update\] You Cant Search Hashtags Using Browser Unless You Are Logged In **URL:** \ **Category:** Social Media News\ **Created:** [March 16, 2017, 4:29am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/instagram-update-you-cant-search-hashtags-using-browser-unless-you-are-logged-in/8105 "2017-03-16T04:29:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrandonBerner](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/brandonberner/32/9354_2.png) [@BrandonBerner](https://mpsocial.com/u/BrandonBerner)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 4:29am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/instagram-update-you-cant-search-hashtags-using-browser-unless-you-are-logged-in/8105/1 "2017-03-16T04:29:12Z")
As of Today March 15th 2017, you can no longer search hashtags via web browser UNLESS you are logged into Instagram. If you are not logged in, and click the links below, you will get the error “Sorry, this page isn’t available.” [https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/abc/](https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/abc/) [https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/fitness/](https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/fitness/) [https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/cars/](https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/cars/) This makes things much more anoying! I also hate the new update where you cannot hover your mouse over a picture to see the engagement. You now have to actually click each picture making the process more time consuming. ##Solution Use other websites such as [www.websta.me](http://www.websta.me) since you can search hashtags, and also see the likes of each picture without the need of clicking each one. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/johnny/32/45706_2.png) [@Johnny](https://mpsocial.com/u/Johnny)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 9:50am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/instagram-update-you-cant-search-hashtags-using-browser-unless-you-are-logged-in/8105/2 "2017-03-16T09:50:22Z")
> [@BrandonBerner](#): > > I also hate the new update where you cannot hover your mouse over a picture to see the engagement It seems they’re going the Pinterest route, where they removed almost all details for no apparent reason 😑 ---
**Author:** ![wortime](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/wortime/32/30775_2.png) [@wortime](https://mpsocial.com/u/wortime)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 6:08am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/instagram-update-you-cant-search-hashtags-using-browser-unless-you-are-logged-in/8105/3 "2017-03-17T06:08:04Z")
They do everything for a reason, perhaps to monitor how long your account is logged in “searching”. Either way, I do not like it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/johnny/32/45706_2.png) [@Johnny](https://mpsocial.com/u/Johnny)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 11:34am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/instagram-update-you-cant-search-hashtags-using-browser-unless-you-are-logged-in/8105/4 "2017-03-17T11:34:17Z")
> [@wortime](#): > > Either way, I do not like it. Definitely.. we’ll see how this goes. ---
**Author:** ![ddizzle](https://mpsocial.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@ddizzle](https://mpsocial.com/u/ddizzle)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 8:17am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/instagram-update-you-cant-search-hashtags-using-browser-unless-you-are-logged-in/8105/5 "2018-08-24T08:17:52Z")
Maybe I have missed this in the last year and a half… but can we really no longer look up hashtags if we’re not logged in? I just tried this and get an error message. The weird thing is, I have done this so often in the (recent) past and am quite certain that I was not always logged in, so am not sure whether I missed something or whether this is a bug. Needless to say, I currently cannot look up hashtags unless I’m logged in. ---
**Author:** ![jakim](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/jakim/32/8074_2.png) [@jakim](https://mpsocial.com/u/jakim)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/instagram-update-you-cant-search-hashtags-using-browser-unless-you-are-logged-in/8105/6 "2018-08-24T12:49:02Z")
Interesting, sometimes they work, sometimes not. I’ve seen something like this before for a location, not for every proxy you can download data, maybe it will be the same here. Things just get harder. ---
**Author:** ![ddizzle](https://mpsocial.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@ddizzle](https://mpsocial.com/u/ddizzle)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/instagram-update-you-cant-search-hashtags-using-browser-unless-you-are-logged-in/8105/7 "2018-08-24T20:16:25Z")
I’m pretty sure I was able to look up hashtags on my PC without being logged in, so I will try this again at a later point. ---
**Author:** ![jakim](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/jakim/32/8074_2.png) [@jakim](https://mpsocial.com/u/jakim)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/instagram-update-you-cant-search-hashtags-using-browser-unless-you-are-logged-in/8105/8 "2018-08-24T20:40:27Z")
That’s exactly how it was, I have tag tracking implemented in IG Monitoring, today most trackers return an error. ---
**Author:** ![ddizzle](https://mpsocial.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@ddizzle](https://mpsocial.com/u/ddizzle)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2018, 8:39am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/instagram-update-you-cant-search-hashtags-using-browser-unless-you-are-logged-in/8105/9 "2018-08-25T08:39:04Z")
> [@jakim](#): > > most trackers return an error Most but not all, so you can still track some hashtags? Maybe the more popular ones? ---
**Author:** ![jakim](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/jakim/32/8074_2.png) [@jakim](https://mpsocial.com/u/jakim)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2018, 9:25am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/instagram-update-you-cant-search-hashtags-using-browser-unless-you-are-logged-in/8105/10 "2018-08-25T09:25:52Z")
I think I do not have enough data for good conclusions, but from what I see, I can not follow the tags associated with profiles. But this is just a shot. ---
**Author:** ![pow](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/pow/32/30025_2.png) [@pow](https://mpsocial.com/u/pow)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2018, 9:38am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/instagram-update-you-cant-search-hashtags-using-browser-unless-you-are-logged-in/8105/11 "2018-08-25T09:38:02Z")
> [@BrandonBerner](#): > > [https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/fitness/](https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/fitness/) I can look for hashtags and see the post’s engagement by hovering mouse on the picture without logged in. I think this is an old post and Instagram fixed those things 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jakim](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/jakim/32/8074_2.png) [@jakim](https://mpsocial.com/u/jakim)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2018, 9:51am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/instagram-update-you-cant-search-hashtags-using-browser-unless-you-are-logged-in/8105/12 "2018-08-25T09:51:22Z")
This is a fresh matter, tags from the original post work well. Try to see [https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/explorepoland/](https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/explorepoland/) ---
**Author:** ![ddizzle](https://mpsocial.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@ddizzle](https://mpsocial.com/u/ddizzle)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/instagram-update-you-cant-search-hashtags-using-browser-unless-you-are-logged-in/8105/13 "2018-08-26T19:09:23Z")
This one doesn’t work for me. I wonder if popular hashtags still work (min a few hundred k?) but smaller ones not. Not sure. ---
**Author:** ![jakim](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/jakim/32/8074_2.png) [@jakim](https://mpsocial.com/u/jakim)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/instagram-update-you-cant-search-hashtags-using-browser-unless-you-are-logged-in/8105/14 "2018-08-29T16:26:44Z")
all my monitored tags are back to normal 🙂