For the past few days, I’ve been getting a ton of message requests on Instagram from strangers. I am sure many other users are also facing a similar experience, especially since the Messenger-Instagram merger. Though it brought many helpful features to Instagram DMs, it also carried over some of Messenger’s annoyances. One of them is message requests that allow anyone on Instagram or Facebook to message you. So if you want to turn off message requests on Instagram, follow our short guide.
In this article, we have shown this method on an Android device, but the steps are almost identical for iOS devices. So you can follow the same set of instructions to turn off Instagram DM requests on iPhones as well. Apart from that, the ability to disable message requests is not available on the desktop website. You will have to install the smartphone app to be able to access the specific Settings page. Once you do that, follow the steps below:
That’s it. You have now disabled message requests on both Instagram and Facebook. People other than your followers or whom you follow won’t be able to message you on the photo-sharing platform.
