Open the topic’s or the hashtag’s page and tap Follow. Its posts get a place in your For you feed. You can follow up to 12 topics, and as many hashtags as you like.

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Follow a topic or hashtag

Follow a topic or hashtag in the app

  1. Tap the topic’s name at the top of a post, or a hashtag in a caption. Its page opens.
  2. Tap Follow. It changes to Following.

You can also follow topics from the Topics to follow card that turns up between posts in For you: tap the topics you want, then the button that says how many, like Follow 2 topics.

Follow a topic or hashtag on the website

  1. On ayyam.com, click a topic or a hashtag to open its page.
  2. Click Follow. It changes to Following.

A topic’s page says You follow this topic once you do.

Unfollow

Tap Following on its page. In the app, you can also go to Settings → Wellbeing → Your interests and tap it under Hashtags and topics you follow.

Good to know

  • Posts from followed topics and hashtags show in For you, not in Following, which is people only.
  • At 12 topics, the app says You can follow up to 12 topics. Unfollow one first.
  • On the Topics to follow card, Not now stops it suggesting those topics for 30 days. It doesn’t show you less of them.
  • Nobody is told which topics or hashtags you follow.