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Fine-Tune Instagram Push Notifications On Your Phone
Instagram notifications are divided into different categories– you can tweak all kinds of notifications on the platform through easy in-app controls. Below is how you can customize which notifications you receive from Instagram on your phone.
1. Pause Notifications on Instagram
Are you planning to take a break from Instagram? Or want to focus on work for the moment? Well, Instagram does have a pause feature that lets you turn off notifications for a set period of time. You can use it as a Do Not Disturb mode for Instagram. To pause Instagram notifications on your phone: Instagram currently lets you pause notifications from 15 minutes to 8 hours. Want to disable notifications for a longer period? You can do it from your phone’s settings, using the steps below.
2. Tweak Notifications for Posts, Stories, and Comments
Instagram sends you notifications whenever someone likes your posts, likes/ comments on photos of you, tags you in a photo, likes or pins your comment, or uploads their first post or story on the platform. You can customize whether you want to receive these notifications from everyone or only from people you follow. You can also turn them off individually. Decide whether you want to turn off notifications, receive only from people you follow, or from everyone.
3. Turn On/ Off Notifications for Live and IGTV
By default, Instagram sends you an alert whenever someone goes live on the platform. Similarly, it also pushes notifications when the IGTV video you uploaded is ready to watch or if it has reached a view milestone. While the latter ones don’t bother much, the live video alerts can be annoying at times. Below is how you can disable them completely. Want to turn off live video notifications for a particular person or account? Here’s how to stop Instagram live notifications for one person.
4. Get Notifications Only from Specific Accounts
Those who want notifications only from a particular person or account can visit the particular person’s profile and follow them. Then, tap the Notification icon at the top and select which type of notifications you want to receive- Posts, Stories, IGTV, and Live Videos.
5. Turn On/ Off Notifications for Message Requests, Group Requests, Video Chats
Messages from people you don’t follow, and group requests appear in the General tab. Some people may want these notifications to not miss out on any messages or group invite requests. At the same time, others may want to turn them off due to spam. Similarly, a lot of people may find DM and incoming video call alerts to be bothersome. Below is how you can turn on or off notification for messages, message requests, group requests, and video calls:
6. Disable Alerts for Reminders, Product Announcements by Instagram
Instagram sends you alerts for product announcements on the platform, say a new feature. It also sends reminders for unseen notifications and stories and alerts for ad approvals, support requests, and unrecognized logins. To customize these notifications, go to Instagram Settings > Notifications. Then, click on From Instagram and set your preferences.
Customize Instagram Notifications in Phone Settings
Android
Android users can adjust other Instagram notifications through the device settings. One can do it by going to Settings > Apps & Notifications > Instagram and then tapping Notifications.
iOS
Similarly, iOS users can go to Settings, scroll down and select Instagram. Then, tap Notifications to modify settings like alerts on the lock screen, notification center, banners, sounds, badges, and notification grouping.
Wrapping Up
This was all about how you can fine-tune Instagram push notifications on your phone, be it an Android device or an iPhone. I hope this will help you control Instagram notifications the way you want to. Anyway, do you find notifications to be annoying at times? Do let me know in the comments below. Stay tuned for more.
