How to Follow Someone on Pinterest

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By Victor Ashiedu

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This Itechguide teaches you how to follow someone on Pinterest. The guide covers steps to follow someone on Pinterest from a PC, Android or iPhone.

Option 1: Follow Someone Using a PC (Pinterest.com)

  • Open Pinterest.com from your PC. Then, if you have not yet signed in, sign in with your Pinterest account.
How to Follow Someone on Pinterest from a PC (Pinterest.com)
  • Type the name of the person you want to follow in to Pinterest search. Then, from the displayed suggestions, select a name.
  • In this example, I typed powershell into the search bar and selected powershell from the suggestions. Pinterest will display search results.
How to Follow Someone on Pinterest from a PC (Pinterest.com)
  • On the right side of the search bar, click the All Pins drop-down. Then, from the displayed options, select People. Pinterest will now display only people’s profiles in the search result.
How to Follow Someone on Pinterest from a PC (Pinterest.com)
  • From the list of displayed profiles, click the name of the person you want to follow. The person’s profile will open.
How to Follow Someone on Pinterest from a PC (Pinterest.com)
  • Finally, to follow someone on Pinterest, on the top right of the person’s profile, click the Follow button. The button will change from Follow to Following – indicating that you are now following this person!
How to Follow Someone on Pinterest from a PC (Pinterest.com)

Option 2: Follow Someone via an Android Device

  • Open Pinterest App on your Android device. Then, if you have not yet signed in, sign in with your Pinterest account.
How to Follow Someone on Pinterest on Android
  • At the bottom of the App, tap Search tab – second tab from left, next to Home tab.
How to Follow Someone on Pinterest on Android
  • Search the name of the person you are looking to follow. Then tap the People tab. Pinterest will now display names of people that match your search.
How to Follow Someone on Pinterest on Android
  • From the displayed result, tap the name of the person you want to follow. The person’s profile will be displayed.
  • Finally, to follow someone on Pinterest, beneath the person’s profile, tap Follow button. You will start Following the person. The Follow button will change to Following.

Option 3: Follow Someone Using an iPhone

  • Open the Pinterest App on your iPhone. Then, if you have not yet signed in, sign in with your Pinterest account.
  • At the bottom of the App, tap the search tab.
  • On top of the search tab, type the name of the person into the search bar. Then, to display just Pinterest profiles, click People.
  • From the displayed search results, tap the name of the person you want to follow.
  • Finally, to follow someone on Pinterest, beneath the person’s profile name, tap Follow. Once the Follow button changes to Following you are now following the person!

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Victor Ashiedu

Victor is the founder of InfoPress Media, publishers of Ilifeguides and Itechguides. With 20+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, his expertise spans Windows, Linux, and DevOps. Explore his contributions on Itechguides.com for insightful how-to guides and product reviews.

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