Here, we have included simple methods on how to hide, edit, disable and delete Instagram comments in details. Hope it will help you!
Social media platforms have brought the world together, connecting family and friends, buyers and sellers, and many different audiences together. You can use it to build your community to interact with or advertise your product to millions of users. However, social media platforms don’t come without their downsides.
When browsing Instagram, you will have to deal with several toxic people, trolls, or haters online. These people might leave rude comments on your Instagram posts bringing unwanted negativity.
Fortunately, Instagram has offered features to its users to remove or hide these offensive comments. There is also a feature to completely turn off comments if you don’t want trolls attacking your post.
Below we have a step-by-step guide on using these features provided by Instagram so everyone can stay away from unpleasant and obnoxious comments.
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Can I Delete Instagram Comments?
This can be done, but there’s a slight catch. Only comments made by you on other people’s posts can be deleted. You can also delete others’ comments on your post but cannot delete comments of other accounts on other posts.
How To Delete All Instagram Comments?
Some comments need to go, as they add no real value to either the post or the community and just spread hate among the people. These comments can be removed entirely with a few restrictions we discussed above.
How To Delete All Your Comments?
Sometimes you post a quick comment on a post, and instantly after posting, you start to regret it. Thankfully, Instagram does allow you to remove your comment from the post.
However, it would help if you did it as soon as possible, or else many users will view it before you get the chance to erase the comment.
Using the Instagram website, deleting comments a little different from how it’s done on the app; it’s still a pretty straightforward process as there are not many steps involved.
Here’s how you would remove your comments from a post on Instagram using your desktop:
- Using your desktop and your favorite browser, navigate to Instagram’s website through Instagram and enter your credentials to log in.
- Locate the post on which you made the undesired comment
- Navigate to your comment and then hover your mouse pointer over it
- Click the three dots that now appear on the comment.
- You will be presented with three options: Report, Delete, Cancel.
- Since you need to delete the comment, press ‘Delete.’
- And your comment is no longer on the post!
After deleting a comment, you can add another one if you like by clicking the ‘Add a comment’ bubble and then typing out your comment.
How Can You Delete Other People’s Comments?
To delete your comment, all you need to do is navigate your comment, click the three dots on the side and then pick the delete option.
However, as we discussed earlier, Instagram doesn’t allow users to remove comments made by other people on posts of different accounts for obvious reasons.
How To Edit Comments On Instagram?
As of now, editing comments is still not possible on Instagram. Once a comment has been posted, it can be deleted and replaced with a revised version from the user.
However, editing the comment is not an option. On the other hand, captions you posted on your post can be edited without any problems.
How To Hide Comments On Instagram?
There are times when something you share will trigger several users on the platform. Your post will receive hate, toxic, and offensive comments by both haters and trolls.
You can either delete these Instagram comments one by one, hide them or block all the negativity by simply turning off comments altogether. Here are steps on how to hide the toxic comments on your post:
- Open the Instagram app on your phone.
- Tap on your profile
- Tap on the three horizontal lines on the top right corner
- Tap Settings and then Privacy
- From here, Tap Comments and then switch on the ‘Hide Offensive Comments.’
- Now offensive comments on your posts will be filtered out.
Instagram also offers a ‘Manual Filter’ through which you can specify trigger words. Comments made using these words will be filtered out from your post. You can also manually select specific people and block them from posting comments on your posts.
This is not the same as blocking the account completely, as they can still see your posts but cannot comment on them.
Hide Instagram Comments Without Blocking
Instagram also allows you to hide your story and post specific comments individually, regardless of using any trigger words. This feature came back in 2019 and allowed you to hide the Instagram comments of users without them knowing.
This can be great for hiding occasional awkward or weird comments from fans who are still loyal to your account or avoid cyberbullying. Here’s how to use Instagram’s restrict feature to hide comments:
- Locate your post with the undesired comment
- Swipe left on the comment
- Choose the ‘!’ icon
- Select Restrict from the menu
How To Disable Comments On Instagram?
As we discussed above, Instagram comments can also be turned off entirely for a post you have shared. Here are the steps to turn them off:
- Open the Instagram app.
- Locate the post on which you want to turn the comments off
- Tap the three dots located in the top right corner
- Select ‘Turn Off Commenting’ from the menu
Through this feature, you can conveniently turn off comments entirely from a post, and the best part is that these comments can be turned back on again. All the previous comments will be back, and users can comment once again.
It’s no doubt that Instagram comments are a fantastic way for users to interact and share their thoughts about the content posted.
However, comments can also be pretty negative sometimes and offer no real value to the post; In that case; these comments can be hidden or deleted conveniently through the useful features provided by Instagram.
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