Hiding a Specific Notification
Open the Instagram app. The app looks like a white outline of a camera against a yellow, orange, pink, and purple background.
Tap on the heart icon to view your notifications. You'll see this near the bottom right corner of the screen.
Find the notification that you want to delete. You may have to scroll down through your notifications to find the one you want to hide.
Swipe from right to left across the notification. A trash icon should appear on a red background.
Tap the trash icon.
Tap Hide in the pop-up window.
Turning Off Notifications in the App
Open the Instagram app. The icon looks like a white outline of a camera on a multicolor background and can be found on the Home screen or in the app drawer. If you do not have the Instagram app, it can be downloaded for free from either the Android Google Play Play Store on Android or the iPhone App Store Icon App Store on iOS.
Tap on the Android IG Profile profile icon. This should be in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. Depending on your version of Instagram, this icon may also be your profile image.
Tap on the ☰ menu icon at the top right.
Tap on Settings Android 7 Settings at the bottom of the screen.
Tap on Notifications. This should be the second or third option under Settings.
Tap on the types of notifications that you want to stop. If you want to temporarily pause notifications, you can tap on the Android 7 Switch Off switch next to Pause All and select the time period that you want to pause notifications. Tap on Posts, Stories and Comments to either turn off these categories or change them from the default of “From Everyone” to “From People I Follow”. Tap on Following and Followers to turn off notifications of follow requests, accepted follow requests, and other related options. Tap on Direct Messages to turn off notifications of messages and message requests.
Tap on Email and SMS. This should be under Other Notification Types on the main Notifications page.
Tap on the buttons or switches next to the notification options. From here you can turn off feedback emails, reminder emails, product emails, news emails, and text notifications.
Disabling Notifications on iPhone
Open up iPhone Settings App Icon Settings.
Scroll down and tap on Notifications.
Scroll down the list of apps and tap on Instagram.
Toggle the Allow Notifications switch to the Off position iPhone Switch Off Icon. All Instagram notifications are now turned off. To limit certain types of notifications, leave the Allow Notification switch on iPhone Switch On Icon and uncheck the radio buttons under Lock Screen, Notification Center, or Banners.
Disabling Notifications on Android
Open up Android 7 Settings App Settings. This will either be on the Home screen or in the app drawer.
Tap on Apps & notifications. This should be the third option on the list.
Tap on See all apps.
Scroll down the list of apps and tap on Instagram.
Tap on Notifications.
Tap on the Android 7 Switch On switch next to Show notifications. All Instagram notifications are now turned off.
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