One of the features that any social network has enabled for users is the ability to write comments or express emotions to any post that is published by others. Likeing a post is a kind of show of our feelings about it, and when we want to talk about it more and give our opinions, we write a comment. Anyway, the ability to write comments and like posts, is provided for any user who is able to view our posts, and he can easily like or comments on our posts. However, sometimes we need to share a post that nobody can send to that comment on Instagram. In these situations, we need to turn off comments on Instagram in the corresponding post. Continue with us to show you how to turn off comments on Instagram and how to disable replies on Instagram stories.
Turn off comments on Instagram
If we want to publish a post that nobody can comments on it, we can do this through the following steps:
- Run the Instagram application.
- Go to the publish a post section through the “+” sign, on the center and bottom of screen, and select a picture or video of your gallery or your camera.
- Select your desired filters and edit your picture or video and then tap on the “Next” bottom.
- Tap on the “Advanced Settings” which is written in gray color.
- Active the Turn Off Commenting option.
- Return to the previous page and publish your post.
screenshots of turning off comments on Instagram.
Using the steps above, you can easily turn off comments on Instagram for your posts, and then publish them. But in some cases it is necessary to turn off comments on Instagram for posts that published in the past. In this case, we should proceed according to the following steps.
Turn off comments on Instagram for previous posts
if we want to turn off comments on Instagram for posts that published in the past, we must following this steps:
- Run the Instagram application.
- Go to the Profile page and select that post which you want to turn off commenting on it.
- Tap on three horizontal dots. to go to the settings of the post.
- Select the “Turn Off Commenting” option.
Turning off comments for published posts
This way, you can easily turn off comments on Instagram for posts that have already been published, and then someone will not be able to post comments on that post.
Turn off replies on Instagram stories
Another feature that Instagram offers to its users is the ability to set an image, text, or a short video as a story. This feature is only active for 24 hours and will not be displayed to your friends after the time has elapsed. But Instagram stories has a feature that you can comment on your friends’ stories. Of course, the nature of the Instagram stories does not allow comments that are posted to you in the story for others to be visible. But anyway, the ability to turn off comments on Instagram for stories, and turn off replies om the story is also provided to users. Using this feature, nobody will be able to reply on your stories. The steps to turn off replies on Instagram for the stories are as follows:
- Run the Instagram application.
- Go to the profile page and open the Options through the three dots on upper of the screen.
- In the settings menu, select the “Story Settings”.
- In the Hide Story From section, you can optionally choose those who do not you want to see your story.
- With choosing the “Your Followers” option, reply feature activate only for your followers.
- The “Followers You Follow Back” option is for those who followed you and you followed them, and not ones unfollowed you.
- The “Off” option is for turning off replies and comments for totally.
Turning off replies on Instagram stories