Today’s post answers the question, “who can see my followers on Instagram?” We will discuss Instagram’s privacy feature and offer three ways of controlling who can see your Instagram followers by limiting access to your Instagram profile.
Who Can See My Followers on Instagram?
Your Instagram profile contains various details about you. Anything you share on your story, who you follow, and who follows you back are part of the details available on your Instagram profile. By default, Instagram accounts are public, meaning unless you’ve changed these settings, your account will remain public, and anyone can see who your followers are. It’s worth noting that Instagram doesn’t offer an easy way of restricting who can access your account unless you block a given person, make your account private, or remove a follower. The three are your only options for restricting who can see your followers on Instagram. People can still access your followers, whether your Instagram account is public or private. Therefore, your only chance is to hide your followers from a given person and not from everyone who follows you. For instance, for public accounts, your followers are available to everyone. For private accounts, your followers are visible to anyone that follows you.
How To Hide Your Instagram Followers
If adjusted, Instagram offers various privacy settings, which can help you restrict who can see your followers. The methods discussed below are applicable depending on whether you want to hide your followers from a given person or from everyone you don’t follow or haven’t accepted their friend request. Check them out!
Use Private Instagram Mode
Instagram allows you to set your account to private such that unless someone is your follower, they can’t view your Instagram profile. When your account is set to private, someone must request to be your friend on Instagram, and only after you accept their friend request can they start interacting with your Instagram profile. Here’s how to set your account to private to restrict who can see your followers. This method works best when you don’t want the public to view who you follow, but if you are a brand, it won’t be applicable for your case as you are hindering your profile from being accessible to your customer base.
Remove the Follower
While setting your Instagram account to private help restrict the public from viewing who you follow, that doesn’t apply to those who already follow you. So, if you want a given person who is already your follower not to view your followers, you must remove the person as your follower. That way, with your account set to private and having removed them as your follower, they won’t have a way of viewing your followers. That’s it. The person you have removed won’t have a way of interacting with your profile since your account is private.
Block the Person
If you can’t afford to set your account private, how about blocking the person you don’t want they view your followers? The blocked person won’t view your followers again.
Conclusion
This guide covers various ways of restricting who has access to the people you follow on Instagram. We have presented three methods and the steps to follow to limit access to your followers on Instagram. Use the method that works best for you.
