Guides
Remove the feed. Keep your friends.
Platform-specific guides, comparisons and straight answers.
- How to remove Reels from Instagram (2026)
Instagram has no setting to turn Reels off. Here is what actually works, from the built-in options to removing the Reels tab entirely.
- Instagram without Reels: what it actually feels like
What changes when the Reels tab, the Explore page and 'Suggested for you' disappear from Instagram, and what stays.
- Keep Instagram DMs, block Reels
The reason most people can't quit Instagram is the DMs. Here is how to keep them and lose the feed.
Focus & attention
- Social media without doomscrolling
Doomscrolling is a feature, not a habit. Remove the feed that drives it and the habit goes with it.
- How to stop endless scrolling (without deleting your apps)
A practical order of operations for getting your evenings back, from cheapest to most effective.
- How to make social media less addictive
Which parts of Instagram, YouTube and TikTok are engineered to hook you, and how to remove each one.
- Use social media without short-form content
Every major platform now has a TikTok clone bolted on. Here is how to use all of them without any of it.