If you've hunted around your profile and come up empty, you're not alone, Instagram doesn't show the QR code anywhere obvious. It sits a couple of taps inside the menu, and this short guide points you straight to it on both iPhone and Android.
The Exact Location
Open the Instagram app and go to your own profile. Tap the menu icon, usually three lines, in the top corner. In the menu that appears, find and tap the QR code option. Your scannable profile code fills the screen, ready to share or save.
Why It's Easy to Miss
The feature isn't surfaced on the profile screen itself, so people scroll their profile looking for it and never check the menu. Once you know it lives behind the menu icon, you'll find it in seconds every time.
If the Option Isn't There
An outdated app is the usual reason the QR code option doesn't appear. Update Instagram from your app store and look again. On older versions, the same feature is named Nametag, so tap that if you see it instead of QR code.
Create One Outside the App
Prefer not to dig through menus, or want a branded version? You can generate a code from your profile link any time with an Instagram QR generator, which works no matter your app version and gives you a downloadable file.
FAQ
Common questions are answered in the FAQ section below.