How To Close Direct Message on Instagram [Easy]

Aug 31, 2021

How To Close Direct Message Instagram - Very often, users of various social applications are faced with the fact that they cannot manage all the requests and messages that come to them from other users on the network. This problem occurs especially with people who are popular on the web.

When you have a lot of fans, many of them want to be associated with you. Of course, it is very difficult to answer all of them, and communicating with everyone on a regular basis is unrealistic and even exhausting. What's more, some people, ignored by you, can be rude online. They are too sure of their own importance and immunities due to the fact that the Web is hard to deal with, many like to insult their idols and just other people online.
 

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Instagram is no exception in this regard. Unfortunately in this article I will not tell you how to help the offender psychologically, but as soon as such methods appear, I will tell you right away. Instead, I will tell you how to close Direct Messages on Instagram.

How to close a Direct Message request on Instagram
 

First of all, many people confuse disabling notifications with disabling message requests. This is important because if you don't block incoming requests, their actual number won't go down and that makes sense.

Here's what you need to do to close the Direct Message request:

1. Go to your profile on Instagram.
2. Open the menu by tapping the icon in the top right corner.
3. There, you need to go to Settings. Although many tutorials say that after that you should select Notifications, you shouldn't because turning off notifications won't actually restrict access to direct messages to you. Instead, you should go to Privacy.
4. After that, tap on the Message button and continue.
5. Once there, there are two parts. The first section is Potential Connections, under that section is Others. You need the second one. Scroll down the page and under Other people, tap More on Instagram.
6. Here you will see Message requests and Don't accept requests. Choose the second one if you want to close your Direct Message.
   

After following all the steps above, you will not receive requests from people who are no longer subscribed to you.

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If you receive a message from someone you are subscribed to, but you don't want to receive it anymore, you just need to unsubscribe and this method will also apply to that person.