Best nine 2018: How to make an Instagram collage of your top posts to mark end of the year

Which of you Insta posts received the most likes?
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Amelia Heathman2 January 2019

This year is very nearly over - but there's a very easy way for Instagram users to check out some of their best highlights from 2018.

The Instagram best 9 collage allows users to share their nine highest-flying posts from the last year, all collated into one image for you.

The app, Top Nine, uses data from your personal Instagram profile to pull through the posts that received the most likes and collates it into a top nine, which you can then download and share as your own for more likes.

How to do your best nine on Instagram

  1. Go to Top Nine, either the desktop version of the app. If your Instagram account is private, then you need to use the app.
     
  2. Enter your Instagram handle and your email address and get generating.
     
  3. Top Nine will email you when your collage is ready. Simply download the image and get sharing.
     
  4. After the image has been downloaded, you can ask Top Nine to delete your email and all the data associated with it.

Sharing the Instagram best 9 has become somewhat of an internet tradition over the past few years. Like with all the best traditions, no one is sure when it really started or where it came from, but it is now a necessary stalwart of December and over two million people have already used Top Nine in 2018.

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The Instagram best nine feature is a nice way to look back and remember the things you’ve been up to, like the millennial equivalent of a photo album.

In fact, if you want some tangible evidence of 2018, Top Nine allows you to select some of your favourite Instagram images to be printed on products, including a phone case, pillow or a tote bag. You can access this in the app.

Alternatively, if you are a Google Photos user, Google now has a Photo Book feature to make it easier to create photo albums straight from your photo collections.

Google’s AI can suggest albums from all the stored photos, such as weekends away or holidays, and collects the images together to make it even easier to collect and flip through the memories.

Last minute Christmas present idea: sorted.

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