Overview
- Instagram began rolling out Replace Audio on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, allowing users to change the soundtrack on published feed posts and carousels without reuploading them.
- Swapping a track preserves a post’s likes, comments, shares, and reach so creators do not lose existing engagement when they update audio.
- Users can replace audio an unlimited number of times on a single post, Instagram confirmed, enabling repeated updates and experiments.
- The Replace Audio control appears in a post’s More Options > Edit or under the Original audio menu, and the company says the feature is available globally.
- The change is part of a push of creator-focused tools that include grid reordering and per-slide captions and follows the removal of a controversial AI image-editing feature last week.