Everything to Know About Banned Instagram Hashtags in 2020
How do you check if a hashtag is banned on Instagram in 2020? We take you through the steps to avoid banned hashtags and protect your account.

Written by
Julia CohenHow do you check if a hashtag is banned?
How to manually check:
How to automatically check:
- Open Flick, and search for the right hashtags that match the post you’d like to publish on your Instagram – more on how to find the right hashtags, here. You can check for banned hashtags whether you are just exporting hashtags for a post, or if you are building a collection of hashtags for the future. You can also check if hashtags in a previous collection have been banned before you use them.
- Once you have your selected hashtags, you can run the banned hashtag scan. This will show you which hashtags out of the ones you have selected, are banned.
- Remove the banned hashtags, and replace them with hashtags that are relevant to your content, but aren’t banned. Run the scan again to make sure, and export your hashtags for use!


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