If you don’t want to see a person’s Instagram or stories for some reason, it’s reasonable to mute them. The advantage of muting is that you don’t unfollow an Instagram user or block them; thus, you will be able to send them DMs, see their content once you visit their profile, and unmute them anytime.

After you mute an Instagram account, you won’t see their posts in your feed and stories anymore.

If it sounds like what you want, follow the steps below.

How to Mute Someone on Instagram

Here’s how you can make someone’s content from your Instagram feed without unfollowing or blocking them.

1. Open a profile page of the user you want to mute.

2. Find the Following button under their profile picture and click on it. No worries — you won’t be unfollowing them.

3. From the window that opens, choose the Mute option.

4. Select Posts or Stories or both.

Instagram won’t let them know you’ve muted them.

5. Swipe the menu back down to exit.

This is how you can easily mute someone on Instagram.

How to Unmute Someone on Instagram

If you change your mind and decide to unmute a user, you can do so following this brief guide.

Go to the user’s profile again and tap the Following button. From the menu that is already familiar to you, select the Mute option, and toggle the switcher off.

If you want to get rid of the user on Instagram whatsoever, you can block them instead.

Tip: If you want to view Instagram stories anonymously or view Instagram content of people without actually following them on Instagram, use 4K Stogram. 4K Stogram allows you to save Instagram media by users, locations, and hashtags, back up your Instagram account, feed Instagram feed of other users as your own, and a lot more.