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Turn Off Instagram Activity Status

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Answer

Open Instagram’s activity-status setting and switch off Show Activity Status. This also prevents you from seeing when accounts you follow or message are active.

Guide steps4 steps
  1. Open activity settings
  2. Turn off Show Activity Status
  3. Confirm the trade-off
  4. Verify the result
  5. If it still does not work

Open activity settings

In Instagram, open the account settings for messages and story replies.

Turn off Show Activity Status

Open Show Activity Status and turn its switch off.

Open Instagram activity-status guidance

Confirm the trade-off

After switching it off, you also cannot see other accounts’ current or recent activity status.

Verify the result

Open Instagram from a second trusted account and verify the active account no longer exposes its current activity status or recent activity timestamp where the feature applies.

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If it does not work

  • If the control is missing, update Instagram and confirm the active account. Remember that disabling activity status can also prevent seeing other accounts' activity status.
Sources and verification

Checked against official documentation on . Scope: iPhone & iPad & Android.

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