Instagram has been updated with a new silent mode

To encourage setting boundaries with friends and followers and help focus, Meta introduced a silent mode on Instagram. The feature is designed specifically for teenage users. Once this feature is enabled, users won’t receive any notifications, but it will send an automatic reply whenever someone sends a direct message (DM). In addition, the activity status of the profile will also change to let people know about it.

Meta announced the new Instagram features via its blog post. It read: “Today we’re launching Silent Mode on Instagram to help people focus and encourage them to set boundaries with their friends and followers. Once enabled, you won’t receive any notifications, your profile activity status will change to let others know, and we’ll automatically send you an auto-reply when someone DMs you.”

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According to the social networking site, teenagers said they sometimes want to take time for themselves and may be looking for more ways to focus at night, studying and at school. Now that silent hours can be easily customized to fit a user’s schedule, Instagram will briefly summarize all notifications after disabling the feature so you can catch up on everything you missed.

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Although Silent Mode is designed specifically for teenage users, it is accessible to all users. But Instagram will remind teenagers to do this after they spend a certain amount of time online at night on Instagram. Starting today, everyone in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand can use silent mode. The photo-sharing app intends to expand the availability of silent mode to more nations.

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It’s introducing new features that let people say what content they don’t want recommended to them. Additionally, if you choose Uninteresting post you saw in Explore, it will try to prevent similar content from appearing in other places where it provides recommendations like reels, Search, and other places in the future.

Additionally, while you can currently block DMs and comments that contain certain expressions, Instagram is now expanding this option to include any featured posts you might see on the platform. Once you add a word or list of words, emojis, or hashtags you want to avoid, it will stop recommending content with phrases like “fitness” or “recipes” in the title or hashtag. This is available under Hidden words in the privacy settings.

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Instagram has also updated its parental control tools. works to make parents more aware of the choices their kids make and make it easier for them to have conversations with their kids about their settings through Family Center and other monitoring tools, in addition to giving teens more tools to manage their time and experience on the platform.

It just launched a feature that allows parents to view their teen’s privacy and account settings on Instagram. Parents will be notified if their child updates the settings so they can chat with their teen about the change. Now parents can see the accounts their teen has blocked.

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