Sometimes, you may not be able to reply to messages immediately. Perhaps you are genuinely busy, or you need more time to organize your thoughts, or you simply don’t like the idea of replying to messages immediately. Luckily, Instagram provides a helpful solution to avoid upsetting users who expect an immediate response. This article will explain how to turn off your read receipts and how to hide your viewed messages in a more restrictive way.
What are read receipts?
Read receipts are indicators that show when someone has received and opened a message you sent. They offer a level of trust and transparency in digital communication, and have been integrated into many online messaging platforms, including Instagram. Meta introduced this feature
How to turn off read receipts on Instagram
Here’s why to turn off read receipts on Instagram:
Step 1: Open Instagram and go to your profile page
Step 2: Tap the three-bar button to navigate to Settings.
Step 3: Scroll down and under “How others can interact with you” tap “Messages and story replies”
Step 4: Click Show read receipts and turn off read receipts.
Restricting users on Instagram
On Instagram, If users you don’t follow send you a message, you will receive it as a message request. In such cases their requested messages can either be accepted, declined or even decide to block their account. Opening such messages do not reflect any indication of seen or unseen unless you accept the message.
You can also apply this restrictive power to even users you follow where you isolate messages sent from them. The purpose here is to view direct messages without being marked as read.
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How to Restrict Users on Instagram
Here’s how you can restrict your followers on Instagram:
Step 1: Open Instagram
Step 2: Tap the account you want to restrict from your messages inbox
Step 3: Hit the account’s name at the top
Step 4: Tap Options and select restrict to complete the process.
When you restrict an account, you can read their messages but cannot reply. To respond, you must unrestrict them.
How to Unrestrict Users on Instagram
When you restrict an Instagram account, you can have access to their messages on the message requests folder. Here’s how you can unrestrict an Instagram account:
Step 1: Open the message requests folder
Step 2: Tap the account you want to unrestrict
Step 3: Hit Unrestrict from the options.
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