In recent years, Instagram has evolved from a photo-sharing platform to the world’s most authoritative social media platform. People spend their most time on Instagram because of its eye-catching content, attractive features, and most importantly, it helps to connect with their friends.
Instagram gathered around one billion monthly active users with millions of engaging content. Brands promote their products by showing their presence on Instagram by posting engaging content and replying to the users on the Instagram direct messages section.
What Does Active On Instagram Mean?
The active status on Instagram is nothing but describing your activity with an indication of your presence on the direct messages section. Users cannot determine your presence just by looking at your post or stories. If you enter the Instagram direct messages section, your followers can see the “Active Now” below your profile picture. Active now status can be viewed only by users on your follower and the following list, and it is a switchable option, you can turn off/on Active status on Instagram at any time.
How To View The Active Status On Instagram?
Instagram contains an in-built feature to directly message with your followers or send message requests to your target audiences. Many startups use Instagram DM to show their presence by connecting and increasing the Instagram impressions. Yes, it is an excellent tool to communicate with your audience about your products and services. Engaging with your audience will get more profile visits and boost your account reach.
How to Hide Active Status on Instagram-2022
To hide Active Status on Instagram is simple, follow the steps below to turn off Active status on Instagram,
- Open the “Instagram” account on your phone.
- Go to the icon and click the menu.
- Click the option, and select the “Privacy” option.
- Choose the “Activity Status” option and disable the option “Show Activity Status.”
How to appear offline on Instagram
Many people use Instagram to relax and spend time watching videos and Reels. But Instagram will show the active status to your followers so they may message you and may ruin your relaxation time.
Imagine if you’re watching videos on Instagram after coming from the office to relax, but your office colleague messages you about office work by seeing your activity status. So to avoid this and to appear offline on Instagram, you can disable the activity status on Instagram.
- Open the “Instagram” account on your phone.
- Go to the icon and click the menu.
- Click the option, and select the “Privacy” option.
- Choose the “Activity Status” option and disable the option “Show Activity Status.”
How to turn off Read Receipts on Instagram- 2023 [updated]
When you read the received message from your friend, the “seen” text will appear under the message, and both the sender and receiver can view the “seen” text. Recently, users have concentrated more on privacy menus like reading receipts. Unfortunately, Instagram doesn’t provide an option to turn off Read Receipts on Instagram. But don’t worry, here I am going to share two tricks to turn off “seen” on Instagram,
Restrict an Account
“Restricted Account” on Instagram is not the same feature as “Read Receipts” but a replacement for that. If you restrict someone on Instagram, the restricted user’s message will not appear on the top of the DMs. Instead, the messages will appear on the message request box. Now you can read the message, and the “seen” under the message will not appear even if you read the message.
Steps to Restrict an Instagram user
- Go to the “Instagram” application on your phone.
- Click the “Explore” option.
- In the “Search box,” type in the username to Restrict
- On the right side of their account, a three-dotted vertical menu will appear
- Click that menu, “Restrict” option will appear.
- Click the “Restrict” option. To Restrict the specific user/account.
Read messages offline
As I mentioned earlier, there is no built-in option to turn off read receipt on Instagram. Read the messages offline to avoid “seen” under the messages.
Points to remember when you read messages offline
- First, you need to disconnect the internet to read the messages offline.
- Do not open the message notification and read it because it shows “seen” under that message.
- Try to put your mobile on “Airplane Mode” and read the message.
Keep in mind that as soon as you’re online, the “seen” will appear under the message.
Can you turn off “seen” on Instagram?
You can turn off the “Last Seen” on Instagram direct messages on Instagram by disabling the “Activity status.” It also hides the “active” status on DMs from other users. Like Whatsapp, you cannot turn off “Read Receipt” on Instagram.
How to go Invisible on Instagram?
To go Invisible on Instagram DMs, you need to disable the “Activity Status” option.
Follow the steps below to disable “Activity Status,”
- Open the “Instagram” account on your phone.
- Go to the icon and click the menu.
- Click the option, and select the “Privacy” option.
- Choose the “Activity Status” option and disable the option “Show Activity Status.”
Conclusion
To enhance user privacy, Instagram has the option to turn on/off Active Status on Instagram. But Instagram doesn’t offer the feature to turn off Read Receipt, and it is impossible to restrict an account and go offline every time you read the message. So Instagram needs to add this feature in their future updates.