Instagram Finally Adds Mute Feature

Instagram today announced a long-awaited feature: the ability to mute posts.

Mute will let you hide posts from certain people without unfollowing them. To the offending party, things will look normal, but their annoying photos or Stories will no longer clutter your feed.

Perhaps you have a friend who doesn't know you can post up to 10 photos in one mail and spams your feed with multiple posts per day (or Stories per hour). Mayhap it's all selfies all the fourth dimension, and you've had enough of their mug. Or maybe their all-too-perfect Instagram artful is just Too Much.

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You could unfollow them, only sometimes these people are family, roommates, people yous encounter in existent life, or co-workers, and you lot'd rather not have an awkward "did you unfollow me?" conversation. Until now, you just had to put upwardly with them, but Instagram is now having mercy on us.

"With this change, yous can make your feed fifty-fifty more personalized to what matters to y'all," Instagram said in a blog post.

Mute will roll out over the coming weeks. Once it's agile on your account, tap the ellipses () on the top-right of someone's post and select "Mute." You can then select whether yous want to mute but people's photo posts, their Stories, or both.

"Y'all can also mute posts and stories past pressing and belongings on a story in your tray, or from a profile," Instagram said.

On Facebook, which owns Instagram, you tin "unfollow" people, which removes their posts from your News Feed simply does non de-friend them. Twitter rolled out a mute feature in 2022, and extended it to notifications in 2022.

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