You can now turn-off comments on an individual post on Instagram, and follow this article to learn how to disable comments on Instagram. When you disable commenting, any comments that are currently in your post will be hidden. You can turn off comments for your Instagram followers by learning how to disable comments on Instagram.
You can stop users from commenting on Instagram posts without blocking them or you can disable comments for some specific people. Comments are really necessary to interact with your followers but sometimes they comment even if it is not really required. sometimes your friend’s comments are also annoying so it is better to learn how to disable comments on Instagram and turn-off comments for users.
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How To Disable Comments On Instagram
How To Disable Comments For an Existing Instagram Post
You can disable comments on your shared Instagram posts. To learn how to disable comments on existing post just follow steps which are given below.
- Open the Instagram app and find the post which you want to disable comments.
- Select the menu on the post (three vertical dots at the right-hand side of your post).
- To disable commenting, tap the “Turn Off Commenting” option. The little speech bubble icon that is typically seen between the “heart” and the “sharing” icons will disappear.
How To Disable Comments On Instagram From Specific Users Without Blocking Them
- Open Instagram and tap on your profile picture or profile icon to open the main profile page.
- Tap on the gear icon or the three-dot icon on the top right to access the Settings page.
- Scroll down and tap on ‘Comments’ under the ‘Settings’ section.
- Under ‘Comments Controls’ tap on ‘Allow Comments From’
- By default, this is selected as ‘Everyone’ but you can mention specific users who you want to comment on posts.
- What can be simpler, however, is to go for the ‘Block Comments From’ option and select users you don’t want to comment on posts.
Instagram says that blocking your followers from commenting (not from the account) will essentially hide that specific post from them. You can likewise block particular comments (not users) from the post by giving Instagram certain keywords filters manually. Offensive comments are already disabled from Instagram automatically.
I will write the post soon about how to disable/turn off comments on the Instagram live video.Hope above-mentioned methods will help you to learn how to disable comments on the Instagram.