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Paste your caption, copy it back, and the gaps between your paragraphs survive posting. You see it on a phone before you share it.
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Why Instagram removes your empty lines
Instagram keeps a single line break but treats a line with nothing on it as stray space and removes it. Two paragraphs separated by an empty line end up touching, and a caption written to be skimmed turns into a wall of text.
The fix is to make the empty line not quite empty. This page puts one invisible character on each blank line. The line looks empty on every phone, but Instagram sees a character and leaves it alone.
It also removes spaces at the end of each line. They're invisible, Instagram trims them anyway, and on some versions of the app a space before a line break takes the break with it.
Which invisible characters work
Everyone who fixes this uses one of a handful of characters. Here's how they behave in captions today.
| Character | Code | In a caption | Use it? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Braille blank | U+2800 | Looks empty, kept every time. It's a real symbol in the Braille block, so apps don't treat it as space. | Yes. This page uses it unless you choose otherwise. |
| Left-to-right mark | U+200E | Has no width at all. Kept in most captions, stripped by a few scheduling apps. | Fine as a second choice. |
| Zero-width space | U+200B | Often counted as space and removed along with the empty line. | No. |
| Ordinary space | U+0020 | Removed. A line with only spaces is still an empty line to Instagram. | No. |
| A dot or a dash | ., -, • | Kept, but everyone sees it. | Only if you like the look. |
Instagram caption limits
Checked against Instagram's help centre and Meta's publishing reference on 2 October 2026.
| Limit | Number | What happens past it |
|---|---|---|
| Caption length | 2,200 characters | The app stops you typing more. Each invisible character on an empty line counts as one. |
| Shown before “more” | About 125 characters, or two lines | The rest hides behind “more”, so put the hook first. |
| Hashtags on a post or reel | 5 | Instagram cut this from 30 to 5 from December 2025. A caption with more may not post. |
How to use it
Write your caption anywhere you like: Notes, a document, or the box above. Leave an empty line wherever you want a gap. Paste it into the box, check the phone preview, and tap Copy caption.
In Instagram, paste it into the caption field as it is. Don't add or remove lines there: the app may trim them again. If you need to change something, change it here and copy it again. Running a caption through twice is safe; nothing doubles up.
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