While Instagram's follow suggestions can help you find accounts you might enjoy, they can also repeatedly recommend people you're not interested in following or actively want to avoid on the platform.
Regardless of the reason you want the social media platform to stop suggesting certain accounts, there are ways to manage these recommendations.
Here are some tips to get rid of annoying Instagram follow recommendations...
Why Does Instagram Recommend Accounts to Follow?
Social media companies like Instagram benefit from our having our eyes glued to our screens. The longer we’re on the apps, the more opportunities there are for them to sneak in a few ads when we’re scrolling our feeds or flipping through stories.
For this reason, it serves us people and brands that it thinks we’ll happily follow. Obviously, it doesn't always work out this way.
Instagram bases recommendations on people that you have multiple mutual friends or connections with, profiles you’ve searched recently, or contacts found on your device.
While this feature can sometimes be great, there are times when there are good reasons why you’re not connected already.
How to Remove Specific Accounts to Follow
Whether it’s an old flame, a high school bully, or an ex-colleague, staying private on Instagram is a task worth taking.
With this in mind, here are several ways on how to say goodbye to those pesky Instagram suggestions.
How to Remove Specific Account Suggestions
One of the most basic way to remove suggested accounts is to scroll through your feed until you come across a list of suggested users under the Suggestions for You label.
Then, select the X in the upper-right corner of the box.
To expedite the experience of deleting everyone from this potential list, choose the Select All button in the upper-right corner of the Suggestions for You tab. Then, Instagram will bring you to a whole list of people and brands that it thinks you should follow.
From here, it will be easy to delete every single name on the list until none of them is left.
How to Disable Notifications About Friends to Follow
If you’re tired of being notified about people you should follow, open your Instagram app and select your profile picture. Then, tap the Hamburger button > Settings > Notifications. Next, select Following and Followers and deselect the button under Friends on Instagram.
How to Delete Synced Contacts
Every so often, the culprit is right on your contact list. Instagram sometimes chooses suggestions based from your synced contacts. To ask Instagram to back off from adding people with numbers on your phone, you have to log-in to Instagram from your web browser.
Next, click your Profile picture > Edit Profile > Manage Contacts. Then click Delete All and Delete to confirm. Bear in mind that this doesn’t prevent Instagram from re-uploading your contacts in the future. Thankfully, there's a way to do that too.
To disconnect contacts from syncing in general, go to your Instagram app. Next, select your Profile picture > Hamburger icon > Settings > Account.
Then, slide the button next to Contacts Syncing to disconnect your contacts.
Make Instagram Work for You
With all the talks about how social media is bad for you, there are some ways to make the experience a bit more positive. Remember that unless it’s your job, social media is meant to be fun.
If you still find that even with deleting these suggestions, Instagram is still getting on your nerves, then it may be time to consider taking a break from it.
Thankfully, there are plenty of options to change the content you see on Instagram.
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