A great way to communicate with other Instagram users is through comments. Anyone with access to your entries can post them. Depending on what’s in your photo or video and what their preferences are, they may not always have nice things to say.
There are things you can do to avoid spam and unsolicited messages from strangers. If setting your account to private isn’t an option, you can manage your comments and filter replies that contain certain words and phrases. To do this on your Android or iOS device, open the Instagram app and do the following:
- Tap your profile picture in the bottom-right corner of the page, tap the three-line icon in the top-right, then go to Settings.
- Tap Privacy, then select Hidden Passwords.
- Make sure Hide Comments is turned on — it should be, by default. This allows Instagram to automatically detect potentially offensive comments in an isolated part of the comments section, which you can choose to ignore.
- If you want more aggressive detection of offensive comments, enable Advanced Comment Filtering.
You can also make a list of words, emojis or phrases that you don’t want to see in the Instagram comments section. Follow these steps:
- Under Custom words for messages and comments, tap Manage custom words and phrases.
- Start adding words and separate each entry with a comma. This list can be updated at any time.
- Return to the Hidden Keywords page and turn on Hide Comments under Custom Words and Phrases so that any comments that contain keywords from your list — including common misspellings — won’t appear.
A more aggressive option is to completely disable comments on certain posts, so no one can post any replies and you can take a digital break. Just tap Advanced Settings before hitting Share on a new post and turn on Turn Off Commenting.
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