How to Disable Online Activity Status on Instagram to Stop Showing When Youre Using the App

How to Disable Online Activity Status on Instagram to Stop Showing When Youre Using the App

Instagram now defaults to showing other peoples accounts when you were last active using the Instagram application. For example, if youre using Instagram right now then other Instagram users will be able to see that you are using the app at that moment. If you used the app exactly 23 minutes ago, other users can see that too. Some Instagram users may enjoy broadcasting to the world when exactly they are using that specific application. On the other hand, privacy advocates and more casual Instagram users may not appreciate the broadcasting of app usage to other Instagram users. If you want to disable the Activity Status feature on Instagram so that nobody will be able to tell when you were last using the Instagram app, well show you how to do it. You may need to update the Instagram app to the latest version to find the Activity Status setting available: With Show Activity Status disabled you will no longer broadcast when you were last using the Instagram app to anyone you follow or to anyone you communicate with in the Instagram app. In case youre not sure what this is referring to or you want a visual example, the following sort of Active now and Active 27m ago online status indicators as shown in the screen shot below will no longer appear: One side effect of disabling Show Activity Status in Instagram is that Instagram/Facebook has made it so that if you disable the feature you also wont be able to see other peoples activity status on their accounts either, but thats probably not much of a loss to most users unless youre obsessed with knowing when other people are or arent using the social media image sharing app. Note this setting is enabled per Instagram account, meaning if you you will need to disable the setting for each account individually. Likely the case with many Instagram users, I was not aware of this feature broadcasting my personal app usage and online history to other Instagram users, but once I discovered it I immediately turned the capability off since I value and prioritize privacy but dont want to . But to each their own. Thanks to our friends at for the tip. Oh and by the way, this is obviously for iPhone but likely applies exactly the same to Android Instagram users too.