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An Instagram shadowban means your posts stop being shown to people who don't follow you: no Explore page, no hashtag pages, no Reels recommendations. Instagram's own word for it is being made "not eligible for recommendations", and unlike a removed post, it comes with no notification at all. Your followers still see everything, which is exactly why it takes so long to notice.
Instagram is actually more transparent about this than most platforms. Buried in your settings there's an Account Status screen that will tell you if your content has been ruled non-recommendable. The catch is that it doesn't cover everything, and plenty of suppressed accounts still show a clean status there.
That's what this test is for. Enter your username and we read the public signals: your profile, recent post engagement relative to your follower count, and whether the pattern looks like a suppressed account. You get a risk rating and engagement score on screen, and the detailed report by email. No login, no password, and Instagram never knows a check happened.
Type your Instagram handle into the box above and add the email address where you want the full report sent. No login, no password, no access to your account.
We pull your public profile and recent post stats, then compare the engagement against what an account your size normally gets. Suppressed accounts leave a recognizable pattern in that data.
A few seconds later your shadowban risk and engagement score appear on screen, and the detailed report lands in your inbox. Free, no downloads, and you can re-test as often as you like.
Because your followers keep seeing your posts, an Instagram shadowban is easy to miss. Engagement looks merely "slow" until you check where it's coming from. Testing early means you can drop a flagged hashtag or pause the automation after days of lost reach instead of a month of it.
The classic manual check is posting with a rare hashtag, then searching for it from an account that doesn't follow you. It works, but it needs a second account, a test post, and patience. This runs the equivalent read on your public data in seconds, no test post required.
Falling reach isn't always a shadowban. Instagram shifts distribution between formats constantly, and photo posts in particular have been losing ground to Reels for years. The test tells you whether you're dealing with suppression or just the feed changing around you, and those call for very different responses.
The test reads publicly visible data only. We never ask for your password, never log in as you, and Instagram has no way of knowing a check ran. Handing your Instagram login to third-party tools is how accounts get hijacked; this tool never asks, so there's nothing to leak.
No single symptom proves an Instagram shadowban, but the pattern is distinctive. If three or more of these describe your account right now, run the test above.
Likes and comments fall hard within a day or two, with no change in what or when you post. Gradual decline is usually the algorithm; an overnight cliff is the shadowban signature.
Search a small hashtag you just used from an account that doesn't follow you. If your fresh post isn't in Recent even on a tag with a few hundred posts, hashtag suppression is on.
Open a post's insights and look at reach by source. If Explore and Reels recommendations used to bring real numbers and now sit at zero, Instagram has stopped recommending your content.
Insights split your reach between followers and non-followers. A healthy account always pulls some strangers; a suppressed one shows a non-follower share collapsing toward zero.
Check the Account Status screen in your Instagram settings. If it says your content isn't eligible for recommendations, that's Instagram confirming the suppression outright.
Story views sliding at the same time as feed reach is a bad sign: it suggests the restriction sits on the whole account, not just one flagged post or hashtag.
If the test comes back medium or high risk, here's the sequence that clears most Instagram shadowbans. Start with the hashtags, because they're the most common trigger by far.
Search each hashtag you use regularly. If the results page is empty, shows a warning, or hides the Recent tab, that tag is restricted. Stop using it and edit it out of your recent posts; one bad tag in a saved hashtag set can keep re-flagging everything you publish.
Give the account 24-72 hours of quiet: no posts, no like sprees, no follow bursts. Revoke access for any third-party apps and schedulers you don't fully trust while you wait; linked automation is the second most common trigger after hashtags.
Open Account Status in your settings. If a post is listed as removed or non-recommendable, delete it or appeal it right there. A successful appeal clears the flag; leaving a flagged post up keeps the restriction alive no matter how long you wait.
How long does it take? Most Instagram shadowbans clear within about two weeks once the trigger is gone; repeat violations can drag it to 30 days or more. Re-run the test every few days so you can see the recovery in numbers instead of guessing from vibes.
The questions we get most often about Instagram shadowbans, answered without the fluff.
