Instagram is becoming increasingly popular. It’s a good and fun platform to share your memories and moments with your colleagues and friends. However, there has been an increasing trend of users reporting stranger accounts and adding them to random/spam group chats.
It’s frustrating to open Instagram and find yourself added to a random group chat. These group chats can sometimes be linked to spam or even scams. If you want to prevent strangers from adding you to random group chats on Instagram, you’re in the right place.
Below, we’ve shared a simple step-by-step guide to help you stop people from adding your account to unwanted group chats on Instagram.
Stop Unknown People from Adding your Account to Random Groups on Instagram
Instagram has a dedicated setting that allows the user to control “Who can add you to group chat”. By modifying this setting, you can make sure that next time no stranger can add you to random group chats. However, this setting is hidden deep into the app and finding it in one go is very difficult, so here’s a comprehensive guide on that:
Step:1 Open the Instagram application.
Step: 2 Go to your Profile section and click on Three Lines present at top right corner of the screen.
Step: 3 Now scroll down and click on the “Messages and story replies” section.
Step: 4 Tap on “Message requests”.
Step: 5 Now under Group chats section, click on “Who can add you to group chats”.
Step: 6 You will get two options here, one would be “Everyone on Instagram” and the other would be “Only people you follow on Instagram”. Select the latter.
That’s it. Now, from the next time, no random or stranger people will be able to add your Instagram account to a random group chat. This will stop the spammers from adding you back to the group. It was pretty simple, wasn’t it? For much simpler and comprehensive guides, subscribe to YTechB.
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