How To Hide Instagram DMs/Chats Without Deleting Them

Easy to follow tutorial on hiding certain DM's & conversations from your normal inbox on Instagram! This is a good trick if you don't want to delete your message, but want it to be hidden. Learn how to hide Instagram DMs/Chats without deleting them now.
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Steps:
- When I open up Instagram and tap on my messages you can see that my inbox is currently normal. And if I swipe from right to left on a message there are just two options, to delete or mute the message.
- What you want to do to hide a DM is to create another inbox, to do this you will first need to have a creator account.
- To make your account a creator account, tap on your profile icon in the bottom right corner of the homepage to get to your profile page.
- Then tap on the three lines button in the top right corner of your profile page.
- Select settings from the menu.
- Then in settings tap on ‘switch to professional account’ in blue near the bottom.
- Tap continue four times and then choose a category, it doesn’t matter which one.
- Make sure the ‘display on profile’ toggle is switched off and then tap ‘Done’ at the bottom of the page.
- Make sure that ‘creator’ is selected and tap ‘next’ then tap the ‘x’ at the top right of the page.
- Now from your profile page, tap on the three lines button in the top right again, and again select ‘settings’
- In settings tap on ‘notifications’
- Now tap on ‘direct messages’
- Under messages, you need to make sure that the middle option is selected ‘from primary only’ this means that you will only get notifications from your primary inbox.
- Now go back to the Instagram homepage and tap on messages in the top right.
- Your inbox will now be split in two, primary and general. You will get notifications about new messages in your primary inbox but not in your general inbox.
- To move a chat to general swipe from right to left on it and then tap ‘general’ that chat will now be moved to your general inbox and if someone was to look at your messages or you screenshot your inbox, it would appear like there was no chat with that person.
- To see the messages in general just tap general at the top of the page.
- To move chats back from general to primary, swipe from right to left on them and then tap ‘primary’. They will reappear in your primary inbox in the same order as before.
- If you want your inbox to go back to normal and not have two sections and want to have a regular Instagram account and not a creator account then tap on your profile icon in the bottom right corner of the homepage.
- Then tap on the three lines button in the top right corner of your profile and select ‘Settings’ from the menu.
- In settings tap on ‘account’ then tap on ‘switch account type’ in blue.
- Tap ‘switch to personal account’ and then tap ‘switch to personal’ on the popup.
- Your Instagram account will now be a personal account again and if you go to your messages you will see that there are no longer two sections and it is back to normal.

[@lee-uw9lh]

I’m not trying to offend anyone but damn the narrator is almost unbearable

[@monaandfareed4036]

Yes he slower then snail

[@suryavishwanath8564]

based on the amount of likes this video got, i thought this vidoe might be waste fo time...but this was worth it... my mom is new to insta but knows where to look for chats...so i did this way !! now she didnt even go to the general section and the chats which i wanted to be a secret was safe from from eyes.... Though its not like archive level, but still this solution was enough for me..thank you for the video

[@NoorKhan-ys5cj]

Hey i wanted to ask but this thing makes our account public??

[@suryavishwanath8564]

@@NoorKhan-ys5cj nope...nothing like that

[@HamdaniOvais]

this is not hidden. you moved to general. also you made me uoset

[@Shwetasaw.]

Hello in dms there was camera options but now it's showing calling option and I don't want it can you tell how to change that option

[@mpdissorder]

The voice ruined it for me

[@sahilmahajan5237]

Tysm for the tip... But did you rly have to narrate the whole video like that? Somehow it made me seriously annoyed and that's rare for me

[@JoshLTP]

same ....

[@dragonmaster3880]

Exactly same

[@mythlayla566]

Thank because I need to keep some messages secret🤫

[@moundirmetni6225]

its shows up again after i swich back to personal acount (this trick deosnt work anymore)

[@niyamoljosy2116]

How to unhide?

[@johnkyleevangelista3534]

This doesn’t work on my idk why!!

[@PullOutGameWeak]

Is there a way to clear your instagram send to list? when i want to share a post to someone’s dms i have a lot ppl i don’t even talk to anymore

[@daniketeitge850]

Mine doesnt say direct messages

[@davidahlstrom588]

Thanks
Lol you talk like Glados from portal :)

[@thats_shadman]

Thanks❤Subbed too❤And your voice is good too❤Keep making helpful videos❤

[@carlconstant9288]

Ji

[@HelloitsEng]

Am first

[@pouyas5878]

Why you didn't tell it has to be public azz

[@mil762.]

ts jus saved my ass from gettin caught

[@djenei2564]

wow Portal announcer has a nice new job

[@jasonkelly2000]

I hate the fact that there is probably people here to hide chats from partners for possible cheating

[@moonsstars8943]

The voice 😭

[@YahkeemFernander]

Scary

[@cl00x3r]

my gf not that stupid so useless(

[@therightshow5928]

tf are these voiceovers

[@klo_misi8544]

This is not making sense u need 1000 followers for all this general stuff