How to Turn off Instagram Comments

Nowadays, many people post glimpses of their personal life on Instagram. And these posts are often targeted by people who like to judge others and give unwarranted opinions on their life. So if you want to save your happy memories from any such negativity, you can turn off comments on your posts.

This is a fairly new update you will experience on your Instagram. Apart from preventing any future comments, you can also use this feature to hide any existing comments on your posts. This feature is primarily designed for people with a lot of followers and most likely to be the target of hate comments and abuses online. If you also wish to get rid of comments on any of your posts, read this article till the end.

How To Turn Off Comments On Instagram

Although Instagram doesn’t offer you a feature where you can turn off comments permanently, you can do it post by post. You can manually turn off comments on their posts by following certain steps in the following two instances.

• While posting something on your Instagram feed.
• After publishing the post on your profile.

How To Turn Off Comments Before Posting On Instagram

You can follow these steps to turn off comments before posting on your Instagram.

1. Open the Instagram app on your mobile phone.
2. Follow all the steps that you should take to create a post.
3. And after editing and choosing the right caption for your post, click on “Next.”
4. Now before you click “Share” and publish your post, select “Advanced Settings” present at the bottom section of the window.
5. Find the “Turn Off Commenting” toggle in the subsequent window.
6. Turn the toggle on ( it should turn to blue).
7. Now that the toggle is on, you won’t receive any comments on your post.
8. Click on the “Share” button, and there you have a post free of comments.

How To Turn Off Comments After Publishing A Post On Instagram

Oftentimes, after posting something on Instagram, you might get some negative feedback. And if you do so and you want to get rid of them, follow these steps to remove comments on any of your existing posts:

1. Open the Instagram app on your mobile phone.
2. Now open your profile and choose the post on which you wish to disable comments.
3. Click on the three horizontal lines on the top right side of your screen.
4. On clicking this, you will get a drop-down menu where you should look for the “Turn off Commenting” option.
5. Select this option, and all of the comments present on your post will be removed, and no future comments can be made on the post.

However, if you ever want to reactivate comments on that post. You can deselect the Turn off Commenting option on your post.

How To Turn Off Offensive Comments On Instagram

Oftentimes, people don’t wish to prevent their followers from commenting on your post and want to remove only offensive ones. You can do so by using Instagram’s filtering system. This system identifies the keywords that may be offensive in nature and blocks a comment that contains them.

However, this tool has a predefined list of words that Instagram identifies as offensive. And if any word that falls in this list is posted, the comment gets deleted permanently. You can activate this feature by following these steps -.

1. Open your profile on Instagram.
2. Find the settings icon ( wheel-shaped) on the right corner of your screen and click on it.
3. Under the settings menu, select the Privacy settings.
4. After clicking on this, choose the Comments option.
5. Look for a toggle named “Hide Offensive Comments” on this window.
6. Turn this toggle on and ensure that the slider turns blue.
7. And once you select this option, you will no longer find any offensive comments on your posts.

How To Turn Off Comments On Instagram Live

Live streaming on Instagram is made effective and interactive using comments. But on several occasions, people can resort to hate comments and make fun of the speaker in a live session.

So if you want to steer clear of these hate comments on your Instagram live, you can turn off live commenting by following these steps –

1. Open your Instagram and click on the camera icon on the top left corner of your screen.
2. Slide through all the camera options on your Instagram till you find “Live.”
3. Click on this option; thus, the option will automatically get centered in the capture button on the window.
4. Tap on it to start the live session.
5. Now look for three vertical dots at the bottom next to the comment section of the screen and click on them.
6. Select the “Turn-off Commenting” option on the next page, and no one will be able to comment on your live.

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Conclusion

So these are some ways you can turn off comments while posting something on Instagram. After posting, block offensive comments and stop live comments on your Instagram live.