Managing Photos You're Tagged In and Mentions of You
Tags and mentions help your friends bring you into their posts, but you should always have the final say over what's connected to your name and your profile. Whistlr gives you tools to see everything you're tagged in, remove tags you don't want, require approval before a tag shows up on your profile, and keep track of when someone mentions your @username in a Chattr post, comment, or Mini caption.
Finding Everything You're Tagged In
Every photo, video, or Mini where someone has tagged you is collected in one place so you never have to dig through individual posts to find them. Open your profile, tap the menu icon in the top corner, and select Tagged to see a grid of every post you've been tagged in, sorted with the most recent first. From this view you can tap into any post to review it in context, see who posted it, and decide whether you want it to stay connected to your profile.
Tags work differently depending on who posts them. A close friend tagging you in a group photo from In Circle is usually welcome, but a tag from someone you barely know, or a tag placed on content you'd rather not be associated with, is just as easy to remove. Reviewing your Tagged section every so often is a good habit, especially after a busy weekend or event when a lot of new tags tend to show up at once.
Removing a Tag From Someone Else's Post
Open the tagged post from your Tagged section or from your activity notifications, tap the three-dot menu on the post itself, and choose Remove Me From Photo (or Remove Tag for video and Mini content). This removes the connection between your profile and that post immediately. The original post stays up and the poster keeps their content, but it no longer appears in your Tagged section and your name or profile picture is no longer linked to it. The person who posted it is not sent a special notification explaining why the tag disappeared.
- Tag Review: Turn on tag approval so any new tag of you needs your sign-off before it's visible on your profile, found under Settings > Privacy > Tags
- Manual Approval: When approval is on, pending tags appear in a Tag Requests list where you can approve or decline each one individually
- Remove Existing Tags: Use the three-dot menu on any post in your Tagged section to remove yourself at any time, even from tags you approved earlier
- Hide From Profile: Choose to allow a tag to exist without displaying it on your profile grid, keeping the post connected but less visible
- Who Can Tag You: Limit tagging to people In Circle with you, or turn it off completely so no one can tag you at all
Being tagged in something should always feel like an invitation, never an obligation, which is why you decide what's connected to your profile, not anyone else.
Managing Mentions of Your Username
A mention happens whenever someone types your @username in a Chattr post, a comment, a Mini caption, or a group chat that isn't private between you and them. Mentions create a notification and a link back to your profile, similar to a tag, but they apply to text rather than photos or video. To see your mention history, go to Settings > Notifications > Mentions, where every post or comment that has used your @username is listed in one feed.
- Who Can Mention You: Choose between everyone, only accounts In Circle with you, or no one, under Settings > Privacy > Mentions
- Mention Notifications: Turn mention alerts on or off separately from your other notification settings if you'd rather check them manually
- Reporting a Mention: Tap a mention notification and select Report if the post using your username is harassing, impersonating, or misrepresenting you
- Hidden Mentions: Mentions from accounts you've muted or restricted still won't notify you, even if your settings otherwise allow mentions from everyone
If you'd rather not deal with tags and mentions case by case, the strictest option is to require approval for tags and limit mentions to In Circle only, which together mean nothing about you appears publicly without your knowledge. You can loosen these settings any time, and removing a tag or reporting a mention never notifies the original poster about the action you took, so you can manage your presence without starting a conversation you don't want to have.