Instagram is a great platform to share photos and videos of your personal life or produce and post content to promote your business. However, there will always be haters and spammers on every network, so you need to know how to handle them. Instagram is no exclusion. The easiest way to handle unwanted users is to block them.
In this article I will explain how you can easily block unwanted Instagram users and should you do that at all.
Let’s get started!
How to block Instagram user?
If you had enough and would like to block certain Instagram username, just follow these steps:
- Go to Instagram website or open up Instagram application and log in;
- Find the user that you would like to block and tap on his username to go to his profile;
- Find “3-dot” button at the right upper corner of your screen and click on it;
- From the dropdown menu select “Block”.
That’s it. Now you won’t hear from this user anymore!
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Should you ever block anyone on Instagram?
It is important to mention that blocking feature should be used only in extreme circumstances. You shouldn’t block some random user just for negative comment under your picture. You should block only those users that really deserve being blocked.
There are some alternatives to blocking. For example, you can report or block users just from writing comments on your posts, but leave the ability to view your profile and like your content.
Here is a guide on how to block comments from certain users:
- Open Instagram App and login to your profile;
- Click on the “Profile” tab on the bottom right corner of your screen;
- Click on the menu button (3 parallel lines);
- From the dropdown menu scroll down and select “Settings”, then go to “Privacy” tab;
- Under “Interactions” tab select “Comments”;
- Select “Block comments from” and use search to find users that you want to block from commenting on your posts. That’s it!
This person probably won’t even understand that he can’t leave comments on your posts. This is because if he leaves a comment under your post, comment will be visible to him. However, comment will be hidden from all other users.
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How to unblock Instagram user?
Statistics show that many people on Google are searching not just for “how to block”, but also “how to unblock” Instagram users. Blocking is not permanent, you can unblock anytime. If you changed your mind and want to give that user additional chance, unblocking is easy:
- Open Instagram App and login to your profile;
- Click on the “Profile” tab on the bottom right corner of your screen;
- Click on the menu button (3 parallel lines);
- From the dropdown menu scroll down and select “Settings”, then go to “Privacy” tab;
- Under “Connections” tab select “Blocked accounts”;
- Select account which you would like to unblock, then you will forwarded to his profile.
- Click on “3-dot” button at the right upper corner of your screen and from the dropdown menu select “Unblock”.
What happens after you block someone on Instagram?
There are a lot of questions regarding blocking someone on Instagram. What will happen now? Will he still be able to view your posts? No worries, we will explain everything related to blocking. Just read further.
Blocked Instagram users won’t see any of your posts or stories. It is important to mention that you won’t be able to view blocked account’s posts or stories too.
You will also automatically unfollow blocked user and he will be removed from your followers list.
Note that after you block certain user his comments or likes won’t be automatically deleted from your posts, so you will need to remove comments manually if you would like to.
Surprisingly, blocked user will still be able to mention or tag you in comments or posts. However, you won’t be notified about it.
If you had any direct message chats with that user, then chat history will be removed after you block him. Blocked person will still be able to send you a new direct message, however, Instagram won’t notify you about incoming messages from blocked user.
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Will user know that you blocked him?
Don’t worry! Blocked user won’t be notified that you blocked him.
However, if he views your account then all he will see is 0 posts, 0 followers and 0 followings. By seeing that now you have 0 posts he may guess that you blocked him.
However, he won’t see a straight-forward message informing that he has been blocked from your profile (as oppose to Twitter).
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That’s it for this article. I hope that now it is clear for you how to block users on Instagram. Remember to use this feature only in extreme situations, block only those users that really deserve this.
Have you blocked users on Instagram before? Leave a comment below!
