When you are browsing your Instagram feed and doomscrolling through posts or stories and you come across some irrelevant content that totally spoils your mood, then the best way is to block them on your Instagram. But, if someone you know all too well, you can’t block them. Instead of blocking you can mute them on your Instagram. Muting an Instagram accounts can prevent their content from showing up in your feed. If you want to know how you can mute someone, then go through this article.
What Happens When You Mute Someone on Instagram
When you mute someone on Instagram, you will not see their Instagram stories, posts as well as notes in your feed. While you can mute profiles to not see their stories, posts, and notes. Instagram also has an option to mute notifications for when they message or call you. In this article you are going to know how you can mute someone on your Instagram and also how you can mute messages and calls from that users.
However, blocking someone and muting is two different things, do not confuse with this. Muting is an inactive forceful interpretation take on filtering the content in your Instagram feed. But blocking someone is going in all guns blazing to block them into oblivion. Muting is a better approach because it doesn’t let the individual you are muting. They will not know that they have been muted. But, if you have blocked someone on Instagram, then the person will know because they can’t see your posts and stories and comment also.
In addition, muting somebody is also different from blocking someone on Instagram. Go through this article and know more about what happens when you mute someone on Instagram.
How to Mute Posts or Story on Instagram
In 4 ways you can mute the Posts or Story of someone on Instagram.
1. Mute Posts or Story From Instagram Profile
To mute someones on Instagram including stories, posts, and notes, first you have to open your Instagram app.
- Go to the instagram profile of that user you want to mute and tap the “Following” button.
- In the pop-up menu tap on the Mute option.
- Depending on your needs, now you can mute the Stories, Posts, and Notes of the user.
2. Mute directly from Instagram Feed
If you scroll and browse through Instagram and suddenly you come across content that you do not want to see in your Instagram feed, then without leaving your homepage, from your feed itself you can directly mute these users.
- When you come across a post from an Instagram account on your feed that you do not want to see in your feed, then tap on the three-dot icon on that present in the top right corner of that post and from the pop up menu select the Hide option.
- After that select the Mute Instagram Profile option.
- Then, you can select from the option Mute Posts or Mute Posts and Story option to quickly and easily mute the posts directly from Instagram feed itself.
3. Mute Using Instagram Stories
You can also mute an account using Instagram stories also. This is an easy way to mute someone on Instagram. In this way you can mute both the stories and posts in one go.
- Open your Instagram app and in your Instagram feed, at the very top you have the Stories section.
- Long press the story of the user you want to mute and a pop-up window will appear with the options to mute them will open up.
- Tap on that to see two options Mute story & Mute story and posts. You can select any of the options accordingly.
4. Mute From your Following List
Mute someone on Instagram is easy but, if you want to mute bulk of users from your following lists, then individually visiting profiles and mute them is quite hectic. Instead of go to the individual profile you can mute bulk user from your following lists also.
- Open your Instagram account, from the bottom navigation bar on Instagram, go to your profile.
- Then, tap on the Following in your profile.
- Beside each user you are following you will see a three-dot menu is there. Click on the three Dot icon besides the profile whom you want to mute and select the mute option.
- You can mute the posts, stories, or notes from here.
How to Mute Someone’s Messages on Instagram
Already you have know how you can mute or unmute someone’s content popping up on your Instagram feed. Now you will see how you can mute their messages also.
- Open your Instagram app and in the top right corner you will see the message icon, tap on that.
- Open the chat of that user, whose message you want to mute.
- At the top right corner of the chat you will see the profile icon tap on that.
- From the profile select the mute option from the list and you will see the options to Mute messages or Mute calls. You can choose accordingly.
How to Unmute Someone on Instagram
If you are mute someone on your Instagram and now you want to Unmute them, then go to the profile you have muted and unmute that person. If muted multiple people, then don’t worry Instagram has the list of people you have muted on Instagram. So, you can easily unmute muted in bulk of Instagram accounts. Below is the process of how you can do this.
- Open your Instagram app and go to the profile. At the top right corner you will see the hamburger menu, tap on that.
- From the menu select the option Settings and privacy.
- When you open the Settings and privacy option you will see the Muted accounts section here. Tap on it.
- Here, you will see the Unmute button right beside each of the accounts you have muted. Toggle off the muted button by tapping on it.
