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How to hide your Instagram activity or online status
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(Pocket-lint) – Instagram has a number of similarities to other social media and chat platforms, including Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. Features are constantly being added, including options such as “Show activity status”.
If you use Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp – both owned by Facebook like Instagram – you’ll know they’re showing up when you’re online and last active, or last seen in the case of WhatsApp. Instagram does the same.
However, while the “Show activity status” option is enabled by default in Instagram’s settings menu, you can turn it off as you can on WhatsApp – something you can’t do in Instagram. 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 have the option to turn off Instagram’s Show Activity Status feature, however, if you do, you won’t be able to see someone else’s activity.
To change the visibility of your activity status:
- Open Instagram.
- Tap the profile icon in the top right corner.
- Tap the three lines at the top right.
- Tap Settings.
- Click on Confidentiality.
- Tap Activity Status.
- Tap the button next to Activity status to turn off your activity status.
Note: Just like in Facebook Messenger, there is no option to turn off read receipts on Instagram. Direct messages (DMs) always show as “viewed” after recipients open 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 had direct conversations with (DMs) will see how many minutes or hours you’ve been online.
This feature makes sense for Instagram users who rely on the service to chat with businesses or creative professionals and want to see if they’re online or even respond quickly.
How to tell if someone is online on Instagram
There are several ways to see when someone is online or active:
- You’ll see a green dot next to their username and photo in your direct inbox.
- You’ll see a green dot next to their username and photo elsewhere on Instagram.
- In your direct inbox, you’ll see their most recent activity status.
Note: The status of recent activity will be displayed as follows: Active 25m ago, Active yesterday, Viewed, In progress, etc.
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Want to know more?
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Written by Maggie Tillman. Edited by Britta O’Boyle.