If you are one of those who leads a peaceful and quiet existence within social networks, without wanting to stand out too much or give people talk, surely you do not feel like interacting with the application if the next moment we know that our contacts are going to receive a notification or, even worse, a status update indicating that what they have written or sent to us we have already seen. Why do we have to be hiding to avoid these alerts?
The double check syndrome
There is a problem that is becoming more and more widespread among many users of social networks and messaging applications that They have come to be called "The double check syndrome" Because, even if we are not aware of it, we often need to know if someone has already read what we have sent. It is at that moment when a state of anxiety occurs that leads to thinking more than is advisable.
Five minutes have passed and you haven't read my message? How is it possible if we are soul friends? Maybe he got angry about something and that's why he doesn't want to read what I send him? If you have ever asked yourself such questions, or you are on your way to suffering from that small ailment typical of the digital world or you are already doing it at all and, therefore, you should start a little therapy that works very well for many problems caused by stress: patience.
Instagram, as you surely know, generates notifications similar to those of other social networks or messaging applications in such a way that it tells when we read things or receive them. Luckily, it has tools to prevent that information that we believe does not concern anyone else from reaching other profiles. In this way, you avoid unnecessary problems with users who suffer from this double check syndrome and who are going to ask us, as soon as we see each other, why it took us so long to read one of their messages.
privacy matters too
It is evident that these conditions that have been generated in recent years since the arrival of social networks are a source of problems that we can easily fix, silencing those notifications and preventing Instagram, in this case, from telling everyone when we do things. But there is something that is above all that and it is privacy, that right we have not to feel observed, monitored and controlled by no one who in their free time has nothing better to do than check how fast or slow we are reading the messages we receive.
That privacy, which now seems like a privilege when it is a fundamental right, is another of the reasons that we must use when someone asks us why we want these readings of everything that they send us in the form of messages on the social network, we prefer to hide it.
Well, even at the risk of appearing suspicious of something, if you want to protect your privacy and block what others can know about us, We are going to tell you a couple of methods to do it in the fastest way possible within your mobile. Which is surely the device from which you most connect to the social network owned by Meta (Facebook).
How to read messages without appearing as seen?
Next we are going to tell you how to get Instagram not to send anyone the indication that we have read one of their messages when in fact we have already done so. And to achieve this, we are going to offer you two alternatives. Behold.
Through the Instagram app
To remove those reading notifications within the iOS and Android applications, you must follow the following steps:
- Verify that you have the latest version installed on your mobile from Instagram, either from the Apple App Store or from the Google Play Store.
- Open the app.
- Tap on the icon to access your profile on the social network.
- Now click on the three horizontal lines to display a new menu with more options.
- You will see that one of them is Configuration. We play on it.
- Now inside the Configuration we look for the option of Notifications.
- Of all those that we can define, we are left with the ones that we will find within Calls and direct messages. We play there.
- Now we will see several options depending on the type of notifications that we want to silence, touching the deactivation check.
- The first is the notifications of Message requests, and the second that of Messages.
From that moment no one will be able to see our reading activity on the social network, so everyone who interacts with us will be blocked from accessing that information.
Block mobile connections
Anyway, if you have this problem with the notification of reading messages only with certain users and Instagram profiles, and not in a general way, then you are better served by a slightly crude solution but it works perfectly. And it consists of blocking the connections of the telephone when going to read what they have sent us.
To do so, you simply have to follow the following steps:
- Close the application from Instagram on the phone.
- Next, and in the case of having an iPhone, slide your finger from the top right of the screen downwards, so that the Control center. Once inside, and as you can see in the screenshot that you have just below, click on the airplane icon.
- If you have an Android mobile, swipe down from the top edge of the screen so that the airplane mode option appears. Also click on the icon.
- When airplane mode has been activated, you open Instagram again.
- Now you can read those messages that they have sent you without fear of generating a notification to the user who has sent them.
- Once you have read everything, exit Instagram again.
- Turn off airplane mode and that's it. There will be no trace of the activity you just carried out.