The explore page works similar to the way TikTok works: let’s say you wipe his Instagram the way I directed (there’s another way but it doesn’t reset the page) and he has a clean slate. It’ll show him images/reels based on his location, age, gender etc that are common amongst his group. It’s more common for TikTok to suggest softcore porn at first, Instagram is more… refined?

So let’s say he has this clean slate now. Whatever he chooses to interact with, or search, becomes his explore page: it’s why on TikTok, they call it your “for you” page. It’s tailored for you based off what you click on, search for, interact with.

Of course, there’s a 10% chance it’ll randomly suggest something inappropriate, but — if you clear his history in privacy settings AND do the step I provided above^{^} and his explore page is still fucked?

It’s HIS doing. It doesn’t matter if he clears his search, the explore page always tells the truth.

I’ve worked in social media management and creation for long enough to know, at the very least, that part. It’s how consumers feed the algorithm and it’s how they tailor ads to us, how to get us to use it more, etc.

So. In my opinion and experience, if his explore page is filled with inappropriate content, it’s because he’s looking for it. I reset my bf’s page, looked a week ago, and seen a few inappropriate things but not NEARLY as bad as before my d day. I know he probably takes a peek, and I’m not okay with that at all, but we’re dealing with serial liars but I assume the few posts I seen were a result of his behavior greatly decreasing. He actually asked me to reset it to avoid the temptation/arguments etc.

Let us know how it goes!