I follow over 500 people and I’ve never seen 470 of them like a post which is impossible. Always the same handful of friends. Some of the friends I interact with a decent amount in messages, but most I’ve never spoken to. So I wonder how instagram selects that.

I keep seeing 3-4 weeks if not more. Do I really need to wait that long?

I made a comment on somebody's post and it blew up so now every 5 minutes I get 10 notifications, I can turn my notifications off on my phone. But I wish there was a way we could turn the comments off for a particular comment we made so we can ignore it happened.

Yes, I can always delete the comment, but then why comment at all?

I recently observed that I was unblocked by an account that had blocked me for the past 3 years. Now, there is absolutely no reason that the person would now unblock me. Has anyone noticed similar behaviour on their accounts? Is it possible that this could be a bug in Instagram?

I usually don't use this account much which I've created last November, it mostly serves as a connection between old friends which is kind of stupid cause we haven't talked in 5 years. Nonetheless I got this when I tried to see if there are any updates or new friend requests, I've have been prompted to prove that I'm human which requires a mobile and when contacted the support I've got a link asking for a selfie video, I was like are they stupid or think I'm stupid, I clearly stated them I will not share anymore of my personal information and since the account was created using an email I said send the same code to the email. Is there any way to get past this or any way to complete it without sharing much of my personal information?

Thanks in advance.

I noticed in July I started getting followed randomly on one of my accounts that I haven’t even posted on since 2022. At first I thought they were just bot accounts, but when I go to their pages they appear to possibly be real people’s accounts? And also weird that most of them appear to be from India. Just curious if anyone knows why this is happening?

Over the past two-three months I’ve been encountering some weird stuff on my Instagram stories that has me confused.

I run a public account, only have around 100 followers where I post music I’m working on but have recently stopped using hashtags.

What I’m seeing is an influx of “sex” bots watching my stories with no interaction but they always follow a similar nomenclature -

A name followed by a string of numbers
They have a live story but it doesn’t go through to anything
It’s always “explicit” photos
They always target the latest story

I’ve also tracked their views (because I’m a lame insight guy) -

Story 1 posted at 22:34 Thursday -
Bot 1 - 14 hours after posting (viewed 12:50ish Friday)
Bot 2 - 17 hours after posting (viewed around 15:23 Friday)
Bot 3 - 22 hours after posting (viewed around 21:16 Friday)

Story 2 - Posted at 10:31am Saturday
Bot 1 - 35 mins after posting (viewed 11:05 Saturday)
Bot 2 - circa 6.5 hours after posting (17:04 Saturday)

Story 3 - Posted on 19:04pm Saturday
Bot 1 - 1hr 44 mins after posting (viewed around 20:48 Saturday)
Bot 2 - 3 hr 29 mins after posting (viewed around 22:35 Saturday)
Bot 3 - 16 hr 21 mins after posting (viewed around 11:25 Sunday)
Bot 4 - 19 hr 9 mins after posting (viewed around 14:15 Sunday)
Bot 5 - 19 hr 54 mins after posting (viewed around 14:50 Sunday)

Story 4 - posted at 12:37 Monday
Bot 1 - circa 1 hr ish mins after posting (viewed between 13:30 and 14:15 (Monday)
Bot 2 - 5 hrs and 15 mins after posting (viewed around 17:52 Monday)
Bot 3 - 10 hrs 38 mins after posting (viewed around 23:15 Monday)
Bot 4 - 22 hrs 32 mins after posting (viewed around 11:09 Tuesday)

Story 5 - posted at 09:07am Wednesday
Bot 1 - 4-5 hours after posting (viewed at some point between 13:00 and 14:00 Wednesday)
Bot 2 - 6 hrs 16 mins after posting (viewed at 15:23 Wednesday)
Bot 3 & 4 - 7-8 hrs after posting (viewed somewhere between 16:00 - 18:20)
Bot 5 - 11 hrs 38 mins after posting (viewed 20:45 Wednesday)

Story 6 (showing a screenshot of the bots viewing my account) - posted at 20:55 Wednesday
Bot 1 - 1 hr 48 mins after posting (viewed around 22:43)

Note - I also tried going private for awhile but it made no difference. I’m just not sure if this is a standard cron job or something else

Hii

is anyone else having the problem on ig destop with their notifications.

No matter how many times i click on it the red bubbles don't go away, even if i reload the page. they still pop up and they just keep adding up now.

can someone pls help? this is driving me mad
thnks

DEAR META OR INSTAGRAM TEAM

TODAY WHILE I WAS OUTSIDE I DIDNT OPEN MY INSTA ONCE AND WHEN I WAS BACK HOME AND OPENED INSTA LIKE BRO WTF I SAW MY ACCOUNT WAS SUSPENDED. HOWWWW????.WHAT WAS THE FREAKIN REASON?. I CANT UNDERSTAND YOUR DOWNLOAD A COPY ALSO. BRO JUST GIVE ME MY ACCOUNT BACK

Anyone know how to fix this? Note tried everything put in my number to submit to lift my restriction got an error trying to put my number in to get the code "Sorry there was a problem. Please try again"

So my gf made an alt to send me a fake scam message to mess with me (I know bit fucked up) I didnt realise it was her so I reported the account and she got all her accounts banned and cant make a new one

She can't re appeal the ban, thought maybe getting the verified thing to get customer support

I've been facing a really frustrating issue with my Instagram account. Almost every Monday, my account gets restricted for no apparent reason. Whenever I submit an appeal or request a review, Instagram removes the restriction and says that it was a technological error.

The problem is that I feel these repeated restrictions are affecting my account's features, and some Instagram features aren't available to me.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? If so, were you able to fix it permanently?

I'd really appreciate any suggestions on what might be causing this and what I can do to stop these restrictions from happening every week.

My account earlier while i was just scrolling got marked as not real so i did the verification thing like adding a phone number and then face selfie but then i just get straight deleted cause i somehow didn't meet their standard?

All i did today was share one good morning post on my story and scrolled through reels like geniunly what the fuck did i even do to get this and i cant even ask for a review cause i technically already appealed once when i was forced to do the human verification thing

i keep getting restrictions from instagram when i make one comment 2 of my accounts got banned this week because of this because it flags me as "spam" pls help

pretty self explanatory, I was scrolling on insta (and mind u i have been scrolling for the whole day) when i get suspended for CSE. appealing was useless and im permanetly disabled. ive been multiple accounts of this exact same situation in r/Instagram. is there ANY OTHER way i can get my account back bro, im like stressed

Yesterday when I tried logging in back into my insta account and went to my dm, all my messages were somehow vanished and disappeared into thin air, except all my group chats. I ask the people I’ve been talking to and they can see everything normally except from my account perspective. Has anyone had this issue before and found a way to fix it or restore it?

Thanks

Do you guys know any way I can keep a custom name while being Meta Verified, so that I can use whatever name I want and still keep the blue tick?

So as the title reads my reels aren’t getting as many views as they used to. I used to get like 20-30% views from reels tab but it’s down to around 5-8% and I used to avg 1000 views and us hitting 7k on one but now I am lucky to get 200 views in 24 hrs. My page is @prime_time_props.

Ive been trying to schedule a post but everytime this would pop up. My profile is public. So I dont understand why? Do any of you guys know what needs to be turned off? Ive been trying to research and nothings working. Acc status is good as well and im not even a big profile yet. Please help!

Hey guys, I want to use Instagram but without people from my contacts / people who have my number being able to find me. Since I cant create an Account without a phone number, I was thinking of getting a 2nd phone number on my phone, in form of an e-sim.

Does anyone know if that is possible?

I dont know anything about e-sims but I was thinking that since no one except the people I share the 2nd number to will know it, no one will be able to find me in their recommendations or something. But as my normal sim card would be on the same phone as the app, couldnt it still get access to the main phone number?

I'm sorry if this is hard to read. I hope someone who was wondering the same thing knows if this works!

Would like to use Instagram again without ghosts from the past reappearing just because they have my number :)

Someone ended up hacking my account a couple days ago, changed email, phone number and account name, I have tried to get in to appeal the ban and try and change some info back but I keep getting errors when trying to send a verification code to my phone number, last ditch effort before I bite the bullet and make a new account. Meta "support" is woefully unhelpful.

Anything helps!

(I have tried separate browsers, clearing cache and all that stuff)

I'm posting this because I spent two days thinking my Instagram account was completely cooked, and hopefully this helps someone dealing with the same issue.

*The problem:*

Out of nowhere, Instagram flagged my account with a warning saying something along the lines of **"Your email might be compromised"** and forced me to change my email address.

The problem was that every time I tried changing my email, I would get another error saying **"This content isn't available right now."**

I was basically stuck in an endless loop. I couldn't change my email, couldn't get past the warning, and couldn't access my account.

I searched Reddit and saw people recommending waiting 24-48 hours, so I waited two full days. Nothing changed.

I also tried fixing it through my PC/browser, but it kept sending me right back into the same loop.

*Here's what FINALLY worked for me:*

1. *Delete the Instagram app completely* from your phone.

2. *Reinstall Instagram* from the App Store or Google Play.

3. When you open Instagram, you'll probably see your account/profile already prepopulated on the login screen.

4. *IMPORTANT: Remove your saved account/profile from the login screen.* Don't use the automatic login! Every time I tried using my saved login, it threw me right back into the same error loop.

5. Once you've removed the saved account, open your phone's browser (Safari/Chrome) and go to *https://www.instagram.com/hacked/\*

6. Follow the instructions on that page. In my case, it automatically redirected me to the Instagram app.

7. Enter your Instagram username or email when prompted.

8. Instagram gave me two options to verify my identity:

- *Al video selfie verification:* You record

a short video of your face so Instagram can verify you're the account owner.

*Manual review:* From what the app showed me, this could take around 24-48 hours.

1. I chose the *Al video selfie verification* because I wanted to get my account back ASAP.

*One thing to know about the video verification:*

It took me SEVERAL attempts to get the AI to recognize my face. It kept failing or not registering properly. Don't immediately give up if this happens.

After multiple tries, it finally accepted my video. The verification took about a minute, and *BOOM, MY ACCOUNT WAS UNLOCKED!*

*A few important things:*

I had to do everything through the *phone app*. Trying on my PC just kept me stuck in the loop.

Removing the saved/automatic login was a HUGE part of getting this to work. Otherwise, Instagram kept sending me back to the same warning screen.

My account wasn't actually hacked, at least as far as I could tell. Instagram just randomly flagged it as potentially compromised.

Waiting two days did absolutely nothing for me.

The video selfie verification might fail several times before it works, so be patient.

*TL;DR:* If Instagram is forcing you to change your email because it thinks it's compromised, but keeps giving you "Content isn't available right now," try deleting and reinstalling the app, REMOVE your saved login/profile, then go to *instagram.com/ hacked* through your phone's browser. Follow the recovery process in the app and try the video selfie verification. That's what finally got me back into my account.

I genuinely thought I lost my account for good, so I hope this saves someone else the headache.