I’ve become a fan of Instagram and really enjoy your pics [nice way to butter me up! You can find me on Instagram by searching for “d1taylor”. –DT] but there are some other people that I’m following and would rather not. What’s the fast way to unfollow someone on Instagram?
As I said earlier, nice job of shmoozing with me to get your question answered more quickly. It worked! I’ve only recently been turned on to Instagram, a mobile-based photo sharing app that’s quite surprisingly engaging (and was recently purchased by Facebook, so I expect major changes coming down the pipe in the next few months). I blame my daughter: she’s the one who got me hooked.
Just like other social networks — including notably Facebook — Instagram has the problem that you don’t really know what someone’s going to be posting to the photo stream until you’ve already friended them and become friends.
It’s nice to have lots of friends and followers, of course, but sometimes, well, sometimes you realize after you’ve become connected that you really don’t want to see their photos or, worse, “inspirational quotes” on your stream. I’m waiting for politics to invade too, as we get closer to a presidential election here in the USA…
Fortunately it’s easy to unfollow someone on Instagram. I’ll show you how to do it on the iPhone 4s, but I’m sure it’s completely identical for Android users too.
Let’s say you’re looking at your photo stream and yet another picture comes up from someone you now realize you don’t want to follow. Like this:
In this case, I’m actually a fan of yurbuds, I’m just using them as an example. And, well, I don’t like promo graphics showing up in my feed when I am looking for candid photos of people as they travel through their days. To unfollow yurbuds, all I have to do is tap on the account name, and it shows me more info about that account:
3272 following. That’s impressive! But still, when I look at their Instagram stream, I can see that there are promo graphics and marketing info mixed in with their candids. So…
To unfollow someone, simply tap on the green “Following” button about half-way down on the right. It’ll then change:
Changed your mind? Tap on “Follow” and they’re back in your photo stream.
Easy enough!
And if you, dear reader, do want to see my own Instagram photo stream, just go to “Explore” in the app and search for ‘d1taylor’ to find me. 🙂
Having an Instagram problem. Suddenly after I upgraded yesterday on the app site to better features on Instagram , I am not longer connected to my daughter. When I press follow it doesn’t allow,it and it says there are no,posts available. She’s not a private user either and we’ve followed each other all,along. I wrote Instagram but they don’t seem to answer or fix anything!!! Help!!! Should she be doing something on her end? She can’t follow me anymore either nor like any of my pics. Not allowing it. I have no, idea who,to,contact or how,to fix,it. It should be easy, if you unfollow someone and changed your mind your follow them again but here we didn’t choose to do this. It was done for us. Any ideas?? Help,please.
Is she still following your Instagram account or have you two had the ties severed?
Many times I need to do unfollows, it takes a lot of time. I realized that mass unfollows it’s what I need and I’ve searched for something like this. I tried to use Instagress, but it’s not that what I want. Too slowly and expensive. Then I found fast-unfollow.com it’s much better way. I can do up to 5000 unfollows a day, it works even more quickly than I need. And I got first 1000 unfollows for free.