You can check your Instagram messages in two ways without letting the other person know you've done so.
On Instagram, many of us communicate with people who aren't our relatives, and there are occasions when you may want to review a post they've sent without being "seen." When you check any DM on Instagram, it is immediately marked as “seen” for both you and the other person who has sent it. If WhatsApp allows you to toggle off read receipts (the blue ticks), Instagram does not.
Whether or not you follow the person, if you see a message sent by them, it will be marked as "seen," and the person on the other end will be notified. So, for whatever reason you didn't want to be "seen" after reading that message, whether it's because you don't have time or inclination to continue the conversation, or simply because you don't want to talk, it makes the situation awkward.
However, there are two ways to search Instagram DMs without having them marked as "seen." One is a temporary fix, while the other is more long-term. You can choose which one to use depending on why you don't want to be "seen" reading DMs.
The temporary solution to read DMs without letting the sender know
- Open your Instagram app and go to your DMs. This will load all your new DMs.
- Now, open the smartphone's control center and turn off both WiFi and your mobile data.
- Go back to your DMs and now, make sure the mobile data and WiFi are still off.
- If you check the DMs now, you will not see the “seen” report since your internet is off.
- The very moment you turn the internet on again and open the app, the “seen” report is going to pop up on the message, so you must keep in mind that this solution is very temporary.
The more permanent solution to reading DMs without being “seen”
- For this, you need to do a little bit of work.
- When you spot a DM from someone you don't want to be “seen” by but you still want to read the message, don't click on the message, obviously.
- Go to the concerned person's profile. Next, you need to ‘restrict’ this person. Click on the three dots on the top right of the profile page and select “Restrict".
- Restricting the account limits unwanted conversations with the person without you having to unfollow or block them. You will also get to decide if the comments made by these restricted people on your posts are visible to everyone or not. Also, their message is going to be moved to the “Message Requests” folder so they won't be able to see if you have read it or not. So, you can not be “seen”.
- You need to decide if you want to restrict an account since you will also not get updates when they message you next. You will manually have to check your “Message Request” folder to find out.
So figure out for how long and why you'd want to not be “seen” and take a pick.
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