Here’s a little tip for a more readable, better-looking Instagram feed, and this tips works about 70% of the time (see below for more on the 70% thing).

Adding Line Breaks to Your Captions
This tip is for when your caption is a little long, or for when you want to separate your hashtags from the rest of your caption (of course, you can post all your hashtags as the first comment, but that’s a different tip). Anyway, it’s a little hidden how to do this on an iPhone, so that’s what I thought I’d share today.

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Above: Notice those two glorious line breaks above? Sure makes reading your caption easier. 

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Above: To add a line break; on an iPhone; tap the “123” button on the keyboard (shown circled above in red).

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Above: That brings up the number keyboard, and with it a “Return” key (circled in red above). Place your cursor where you want it; tap the Return key, and it creates a line break. 

NOTE: Remember the 70% thing I mentioned before? Well, when I went back to older posts and added these line breaks to make long captions more readable, it didn’t work in every case — even though it appeared to work while editing the caption; sometimes when I tapped the “Done” button the line breaks which it just showed, completely went away (by the way — adding line breaks doesn’t just make the text more readable — by taking one long caption and breaking it into shorter blocks of text, the chances of people reading your caption at all go way up because little blocks of text make the time it takes to read the caption seem shorter to people, so they’re more likely to read it in the first place).

Hope you find that helpful (and I hope if you’re on Instagram you’ll follow me there — I post travel photography shots there daily). I’m @scottkelby on Instagram.

Hope you have a better-than-average Monday, we’ll catch ya here tomorrow.

Best,

-Scott