How to add a link in your Instagram bio

The five steps

Instagram has moved this setting more than once, so if your app looks different the thing to look for is a Links row inside Edit profile rather than a URL field inside the bio text itself.

1. Open your profile. Open Instagram and tap your profile picture in the bottom-right corner to reach your own profile.
2. Tap Edit profile. Tap the Edit profile button directly under your bio text.
3. Tap Links. Tap the Links row. On current versions of Instagram this is a separate field rather than part of the bio text.
4. Add an external link. Tap Add external link, paste your URL, and optionally give it a display title so it reads as something other than the raw address.
5. Save. Tap Done or the tick. The link now appears as a tappable line under your bio.

Getting more than one link out of one slot

Instagram now allows a handful of links rather than strictly one, but they render as a small stacked list with no styling, and tapping through takes an extra step. For anything more than two destinations the usual answer is a link-in-bio page: one URL in the bio that opens a page holding everything else.

That page is also the only part of this chain you control. Instagram decides how the bio renders; a link page is yours to lay out, colour and reorder, and it keeps working if the platform changes the bio field again.

Miine is a free way to make one. You claim a username, add your links, style the page, and paste the resulting URL into the Links field above.

When the link will not appear or is not clickable

Four things account for almost every case:

• The URL is in the bio TEXT rather than the Links field. Text in the bio body is not clickable — it has to go in Links.
• The URL is missing its prefix. Paste the full address including https://, not just the domain.
• The app is out of date. The Links field is relatively recent; update Instagram and reopen Edit profile.
• The account is new or recently flagged. Instagram sometimes withholds outbound links on very new accounts for a period.

If the link saves but opens a warning page, the destination has been flagged by Instagram's URL checks — which most often happens with free shortener domains rather than with an ordinary hosted page.

Making the single link worth the tap

Whatever sits behind that link is the only page most of your audience will ever see outside the feed. Two things matter more than the rest: it should load fast on a phone on mobile data, and the thing you most want people to do should be the first thing they see.

Everything else — back catalogue, archive, secondary socials — can sit below the fold. The page does not need to be a complete index of your existence.