Photo and video sharing isn’t the only interesting thing to do on Instagram. In fact, messaging on Instagram is just as convenient as other chat-based social media apps.
Meanwhile, due to personal reasons or spammy inboxes, there may come a time you want to delete messages or conversations you have on your Instagram account. Here is how to remove messages on your Instagram DMs.
How to delete Instagram conversations on iPhone and Android
- Open your Instagram app and head to messages, by tapping the messenger icon.
- Select the chats& conversations you want to remove permanently from your DMs.
- Tap delete and confirm to complete removing messages from your chat.
Note: Because messages have already been viewed by the other person, deleting conversations will not remove the messages from the other person’s messages.
How to delete an Instagram message on iPhone
If you sent a message to someone and you want to delete it from both sides on Instagram, you can do that by using the “Unsend” option on your iPhone. This will delete for everyone permanently.
- Open your Instagram app and go to the message you want to delete.
- Press and hold the message you want to delete
- A popup menu should appear, tap unsend to delete it.
Kindly note: that “unsending” a message on Instagram will delete it for everyone.
Frequently Asked Questions
Deleting messages you sent to someone on Instagram is quite easy. All you have to do is to tap and hold the message you want to remove till you see “unsend”. Tap unsend to remove the message permanently from the person’s DM
No, Blocking someone doesn’t delete conversations you have with them, the person will still see conversations you previously had, but they won’t be able to text you again. Again you have to manually remove messages from their chats if you don’t want them to have access to previous conversations of you.
Yes, however, messages deleted from someone else will only be deleted on your device since you are not the original author of the message.
No, the other person won’t be notified if you remove messages you sent
No, unfortunately, Instagram doesn’t allow you to remove messages in your DMs at once unless done one after the other. However, some third-party apps are available to do the trick.
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