In this guide, we will show you how to hide your online status on Instagram. With so many social networks these days, your friends and family know pretty much everything, and now Instagram will tell people when you’re online.
Instagram last added familiar green dot to profile pictures so you’ll know when people are active and online. Makes it easy to send private messages to your friends. They can also see your last activity, even if it was 2-3 days ago.
Basically, now everyone knows when they can hit your DMs with another recurring meme or photo. Fortunately, this update to Instagram also gives us more control over our online status, and you can quickly turn it off and hide the status completely.
How to Hide Your Online Status on Instagram
When you turn this feature off, it will hide your online status or activity from all your friends and family. You can’t pick and choose as it completely turns it off for everyone.
When you turn off Instagram’s activity status yourself, you cannot see the activity status of other accounts. Keep this in mind. You can find this setting in the same place on both Android and iOS, it may look slightly different depending on whether you have the latest update from the app store.
We’re all done. Now you can enjoy living freely without people noticing while browsing all those dog photos at night.
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Here’s what Instagram has to say about this new feature. “This update gives you the control to completely hide your status, while giving you the ability to have more of these real-time conversations.”
If you decide to keep this feature turned on, remember that you will only see the statuses of friends who follow you or people you DM to. While you’re here, learn how to delete your Instagram account or find out these 10 common problems and how to fix them.
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