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How to Hide Your Instagram Online Status
Most social media networks and chat platforms these days include a feature that shows when a user was last online or last active on the service, which can be either helpful or a hindrance, depending on your personal or business situation.
WhatsApp includes an optional "Last Seen" status for the person you're chatting with in a conversation thread, while Instagram tells you how long it was since a user was active when you're viewing messages from them in your Direct inbox. Instagram also shows a green dot next to their profile picture and name if the person is currently interacting with the app.
Sometimes though, for whatever reason, you might not want someone – or indeed anyone – to know when you were last active on social media. Fortunately, WhatsApp and Instagram both allow you to hide your activity status in the app. Here our focus is on how to hide your Instagram status, but you can find how to do the same thing in WhatsApp in our dedicated how-to article.
Hiding Your Instagram Online Status
- Launch the Instagram app.
- Tap the profile icon in the bottom-right corner.
- Tap the three lines in the top-right corner.
- Tap Settings.
- Tap Privacy.
- Tap Activity Status.
- Tap the switch to toggle off Show activity status.
Did you know you can also hide Like and View counts on Instagram posts, too? Check out our dedicated tutorial to learn how.
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(Pocket-lint) - Instagram offers a number of similarities to other social media and chat platforms, including Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.
Features are constantly added, including options like "Show Activity Status". If you use Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp - both owned by Facebook like Instagram - you'll know that they show when you're online and last active, or last seen in WhatsApp's case. Instagram does the same. However, although the "Show Activity Status" option is enabled by default inside of Instagram's settings menu, you can toggle it off like you can on WhatsApp - something you can't do in Messenger.
Here's how to hide your activity status on Instagram, as well as how to tell if someone is online.
How to hide your Instagram activity or online status
Those of you who don't want people to see when you're online in real-time do have the option to turn off Instagram's Show Activity Status feature, though, if you do, you won't be able to see anyone else's activity.
To change the visibility of your activity status:
- Open Instagram.
- Tap on the Profile icon in the right corner.
- Tap the three lines in the top right.
- Tap on Settings.
- Click on Privacy.
- Tap Activity Status.
- Tap the toggle next to Activity Status to turn off your activity status.
Note: Just like in Facebook Messenger, there's no option to disable read receipts on Instagram. Direct messages (DMs) always show as "seen" once recipients have opened them.
Who can see when you're active on Instagram?
Your followers can't see when you were most recently on Instagram.
Only people you follow or have previously had direct conversations (DMs) with will see how many minutes or hours ago you were online. This feature makes sense for Instagram users who rely on the service to chat with businesses or creative professionals and want to see whether they're online or even quickly respond.
How to tell if someone is online on Instagram
There are a few ways to see when someone's online or active:
- You'll see a green dot near their username and photo in your Direct inbox.
- You'll see a green dot near their username and photo elsewhere on Instagram.
- In your direct inbox, you'll see their most recent activity status.
Note: Recent activity status will show as: Active 25m ago, Active yesterday, Seen, Typing, etc.
Want to know more?
See our Instagram guides for more tips:
- Instagram tips and tricks: How to master the app
- 15 secret Instagram tips
- What is Instagram Stories and how does it work?
Writing by Maggie Tillman.
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How do I turn notifications from a specific person on or off on Instagram?
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If you don't want to see a specific person's posts, stories, or inboxes on your Instagram feed, you can turn off notifications from that person in several ways.
Instagram does not send any notifications to people whose posts you have hidden. Turning off notifications from a specific person is not the same as unsubscribing.
How do I turn message notifications on or off?
To enable or disable message notifications from a specific person:
Instagram app for Android and iPhone
Tap the or icon in the top right corner of the feed.
Tap the conversation with the person whose notifications you want to turn on or off.
Select the person's name at the top of the chat.
Click or next to Turn off message notifications or Turn off call notifications.
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Instagram Lite app for Android
To hide or show a person's posts or stories through their profile:
Instagram app for Android and iPhone
Click on a username in their feed or story post, or click the icon and search for the username to go to their profile.
Click Subscriptions below your profile information.
Select Hide.
Click next to the Posts or Stories button. Click to show them.
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How do I hide or show my account through the feed?
To hide or show a person's posts or stories through their feed:
Instagram app for Android
Tap the icon next to a post.
Select Hide.
Click Hide [username] and select Hide posts or Hide posts and history.
Instagram App for iPhone
Click the icon next to a post.
Select Hide.
Click Hide [username] and select Hide posts or Hide posts and history.
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