In this modern world of the Internet and social media, it becomes crucial to stay connected with each other. Because we are available online and all of our information is available online or on social media, it is also important to maintain our privacy online. Read receipts on Instagram have become the biggest privacy woes. With this people get to know whether you have read their message or not, and they start making a fuss about why you didn’t reply.
But from now you don’t need to face this problem because you can turn off the read receipts on most of the social media apps or messaging apps, It was not been possible on Instagram until now.
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Instagram the most popular social media app, has now introduced the option to turn off the read receipts on iPhone and Android. So if you are a person who wants to keep things private then you can turn read receipts off on Instagram iPhone and Android.
In this article, I will guide you with a step-by-step procedure to turn off read receipts and enjoy this feature of Instagram.
Turn Off Read Receipts on Instagram
- Open Instagram and click on the messenger icon on the top right corner of the screen.
- Then select the direct message that you want to turn off the read receipt.
- Click the username on the top bar.
- Then click on the privacy and safety.
- Now toggle off the read receipt under who can see your activity.
And done, you disabled the read receipt in the chat. If you want to disable read receipt on other chat then the procedure will be the same.
The point to be noted is that read receipts will remain turned on in the vanish mode, even if you turn it off from here.
To enhance the privacy of Instagram messages. I recommend you turn off the activity status. Here is the step-by-step guide to turning on or off the activity status:
- Open the Instagram app and click on the More button at the bottom left corner of the Instagram home page.
- Then click on settings and then click on privacy.
- Now click on Activity status and uncheck the box next to show activity status to disable it.
Disabling the activity status in Instagram will remove the green dot from the profile whenever you are online or using Instagram.
