{"id":54283,"date":"2023-07-14T16:17:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T16:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/?p=54283"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:17:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T16:17:37","slug":"heres-how-you-can-open-your-instagram-dms-without-leaving-them-on-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/heres-how-you-can-open-your-instagram-dms-without-leaving-them-on-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s How You Can Open Your Instagram DM\u2019s Without Leaving Them on Read"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who\u2019s never wished for the \u201dread\u201d notification to disappear from apps completely?\u00a0 Unanimously considered as one of the most frustrating updates to have made its way onto social media platforms since their inception, whether it\u2019s Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, the pesky little indicator that appears once you\u2019ve opened a message has become a real thorn in our digital backsides. <\/span>
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\n<\/span>Putting us all in a position where we collectively yearn for the days when our online conversations were as discreet as they could be, today, the digital acknowledgement of receipt has turned us all into unwilling participants of an online game of hide and seek, with the “read” notification playing the role of a teammate, shouting, “I found you!” when they\u2019re really not supposed to.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably the one statistic that does not need numbers to back it as we\u2019re adamant that 100% of Instagram users have already experienced opening a DM by mistake, and subsequently found themselves having to circumvent the awkward situation by either letting the other person know that we\u2019ve read the message but can\u2019t (or don\u2019t want) to answer now by means of silence, pretending that it never happened, or actually dealing with it by reluctantly typing an appropriate response back.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Although we haven\u2019t found a solution to solve those specific mishaps yet (just watch your fingers for now), users will be glad to hear that there is actually a way for to open an Instagram DM<\/a> in incognito mode. Below, follow these five simple steps to master the elusive art of stealthy DM-reading on Instagram:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Open up your Instagram and search for the username of the person who sent you a message that you\u2019d like to open without them knowing.<\/span>\n

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  2. Go to their profile and click on the three dots next to the bell at the top right corner of the screen, then restrict the account.<\/span>\n

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  3. Head back to your inbox and you\u2019ll notice that the DM from the person you\u2019re trying to sneak away from has been moved to the \u201crequest\u201d section, meaning that you can peacefully open and read the message without them knowing that you have.<\/span>\n

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  4. Then it\u2019s up to you to decide whether you\u2019d like to un-restrict the person to give them an answer or keep them there until you decide otherwise.<\/span>\n

    <\/span><\/li>\n

  5. Thank us later.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Who\u2019s never wished for the \u201dread\u201d notification to disappear from apps completely?\u00a0 Unanimously considered as one of the most frustrating updates to have made its way onto social media platforms since their inception, whether it\u2019s Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, the pesky little indicator that appears once you\u2019ve opened a message has become a real thorn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":54284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4462],"tags":[4318],"primary_tag":[6580],"ppma_author":[4185],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":4185,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"yassineh","display_name":"Yassine Hariss","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3eea5e5732e3d1fe9382f8d13b3f004d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54287,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54283\/revisions\/54287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54283"},{"taxonomy":"primary_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/primary_tag?post=54283"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=54283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}