Instagram is a social network that, like any other, connects users from all over the world so that they can interact with each other. However, there are those who prefer to keep strangers at bay and that only their followers can comment on their photos.
If you are one of this class of users, you will be interested to know that the application has a function to restrict activity beyond the profiles that you know. In this way you will avoid annoying spam mentions, those of people you don’t know who they are and those you have previously stopped following.
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Privacy measures are essential on any platform like Instagram, as there are people who love to share their day-to-day, but only with people they consider trustworthy . So there is the option to deny commenting on your photos and showing you how to do it is the goal of this post, so follow these steps to protect your account:
- Open the Instagram app on your mobile.
- Go to the corresponding section of your profile in the lower right area, touching on your photo.
- Click on the three lines at the top right of the screen and select the “Settings” option that appears at the bottom independently of the rest in some cases; whereas, in the most recent versions of the app, it appears first.
- Once inside the application settings, access the “Privacy” section .
- In this section you can control all kinds of interactions with your Instagram account, but the one that interests us is the “Comments” option.
Here you have control over the people who can comment on your posts and there are up to three alternatives depending on your preferences, which are the following: people you follow, your followers or people you follow and your followers. The ideal would be to choose the last option so that any user of all those you follow along with your followers can leave you a message in the publication.
More methods to protect your account
In addition, in this part of Instagram you can also select specific accounts that you want to block so that they cannot comment on you, although the most effective method so that no one else bothers you is to delete your account and that’s it. Be careful, regarding the above, it is important to point out that it is not a block to use that will prevent you from following you, but it will restrict the action of commenting. All you have to do is select “Block Comments From” and enter the user’s name and then bookmark their profile.
Another way to avoid potential spam from fake accounts is to limit the ability to tag yourself in photos and mention you in comments. First, you can avoid it by accessing the “Publications” section and indicating the “People you follow” option in the “Allow tags from” section; while, on the other hand, so that they cannot mention you, you have to go to “Mentions” and check the same box for “People you follow”. With these settings no one you don’t know can bother you.