Speaking of social networks, we are sure that we all have a friend who spends 24 hours a day on Instagram uploading photos, stories, tagging us in other publications or sending private messages. If you do not dare to tell him to stop, today we will explain how you can mute each and every one of their notifications on your instagram account.
How to mute some Instagram notifications
Whether you have that friend who is a little tired with his posts on this social network, or if you simply don't want to hear the sound of notifications from your smartphone every time you receive an update on Instagram, let's see how we can silence each of these alerts separately. Or, even, it will be possible to block them all at the same time, although the latter has trick.
The first, and most important, is access the notifications section Instagram to see which of them we can act on. To do this, whether you have an Android or iOS phone, it's as simple as:
- Click on the user icon located to the right of the bottom bar to access your profile.
- Click on the menu of the three lines in the upper right corner and click on the Settings option.
- Once in this new menu Access the Notifications option.
It is that simple to get to the section where we can configure each of the notifications that affect our user account. Now the important thing is to know which sections we are interested in blocking here. This will depend on which of these notifications “bother you the most”. From this menu you can block alerts from:
- Publications, stories and comments: this is the category that takes the main bulk of notifications that we can normally receive. Within this we can block those alerts when receiving a like on a photo, a message that we have been tagged in a publication, comments on tagged photos or on our own photos or likes and responses to our own comments. Instagram puts very clear examples so that we can correctly identify each of these. Here we can silence each of these alerts completely, or receive only the one from those people we follow.
- Accounts you follow and followers: This section unifies those notifications regarding follow-ups between Instagram accounts.
- Calls and direct messages: all those alerts that we can receive from the direct messages of this social network. For example, we may block requests for these messages, group requests, or video chat requests.
- Videos and live videos: This section refers to the messages received from live videos such as IGTV publications, both from others and from your own. If you don't want to receive an alert every time one of the profiles you follow is live, take a look at these options.
- Fundraisers: In this section you will find out about all the movements that occur when you decide to raise funds for a cause, or when other profiles are in charge of doing so. If you don't want to hear from those kinds of posts, turn them off.
- Instagram: If user notifications were not enough, Instagram itself can also send different alerts to our phone such as news, reminders or logins. If you do not want these to bother you, you can review each one of them, although we do recommend that you leave the “Unrecognized logins” option active.
- Email and SMS: In case you had not noticed, this social network has by default our acceptance to send us notifications by email or via SMS. You can also block them from this section of the notifications section.
These are all the alerts that you will be able to block in your Instagram account. But, at this point you may be asking yourself several questions: Can't I mute them all at once? What if I only want to block those of a specific user? Well, these issues are clarified below.
How to mute all Instagram notifications
If what you want is to "put the mute button» to all Instagram alerts at once, this social network is not going to make it easy for us. Keep in mind that they live off the time we spend on their platform and, therefore, all those actions that reduce it are not exactly to their liking.
If you have paid attention, within the Instagram notifications menu there is a slider to perform this action. The problem is that Instagram only allows us to block them for a period of time and not permanently. But we can do this from the settings of our smartphone easily.
If you have a android phone, you just have to do the following steps:
- Go to the "Settings" and access the notifications section of the terminal. If you cannot locate it, in this menu there is a search engine in which you can type the word "notifications" to find this section.
- Once here, locate Instagram within the list of apps installed and click on it to access the options.
- Now click on the notifications section and, if you do not want to receive any more, click on "All Instagram notifications" to not receive them again.
In case you own a iPhone, the procedure is very similar:
- Access the iPhone settings and click on the "Notifications" section.
- Scroll down through the list of installed apps until you locate Instagram. Click on it to see all the options.
- Once here, as we did in the previous section, if you want to stop receiving each and every one of the alerts from this application, you just have to block them by clicking on the "Allow notifications" slider.
How to mute someone on Instagram
Finally, in case you want mute a user's notifications Specifically, you just have to:
- Mute direct messages by pressing the "i" icon in the upper right corner of direct messages and selecting the corresponding options.
- Check that you do not have any of the notifications of the new section of the "bell" of Instagram active. You can get to this menu from the bell icon in the upper right corner of that user's profile.
Extra bonus: two ways to silence notifications
Although it may seem somewhat absurd, if you are simply annoyed by Instagram notifications during a specific period of time (for example, while you study or work), You will always be able to partially silence your phone. If you have an iPhone you can temporarily cancel those notifications by telling iOS to keep them silent for an hour or until the next day. Thus, we do not have to be touching the menus of the social network itself.
To carry out this process you must follow the following steps:
- Grab your iPhone and see if you have a notification from Instagram on your lock screen.
- If so, slide it to the left.
- You will see several functions: stick with Options.
- Now choose the length of time you want to keep Instagram notifications silent.
- Once finished, you will no longer see more balloons or messages about mentions, invitations, etc.
The second of the alternatives is a bit more radical, because it not only eliminates a moment in which Instagram becomes a problem due to the huge amount of notifications we receive (imagine that one of your posts has suddenly gone viral) but also all the others that can come to you in that moment of madness. Especially if you have overcome the barrier of impacting the usual profiles a few times and have made the leap to the first division an influencer.
If this is your case, do the following:
- access the Control center of the iPhone by sliding your finger from the top center of the screen from top to bottom.
- Tap on the concentration mode control.
- Choose one that disables notifications, such as Do not bother.
- Check that it has been perfectly activated.
- You will no longer receive a single notification from anything, including Instagram.