Instagram will allow you to hide direct message reading notices, as confirmed by Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and Adam Mosseri, head of the platform. From now on there will be the possibility of hiding the ‘seen’ notice, something that many users requested in order to be able to read private messages without the sender being notified of it.
This possibility, which has been included in WhatsApp for years, now comes to Instagram and will be available in the ‘Privacy and security’ tab, which can be accessed by clicking on the name of the person within the chat in question.
There will appear a section called ‘Who can see your activity’, where there will be a kind of switch and when you deactivate it, all those seen from that moment on will be hidden from third parties with whom you have a conversation. However, read notifications will continue to be maintained in the case of messages sent in hidden mode.
The option is not yet available to everyone, and those responsible for the application have not given details about how long this testing phase will last.
Another point that remains up in the air is whether it will be a general option so that no one can see the reading notifications of the direct messages or if it can be marked according to the user to indicate to whom the notification will be visible. With this new option, Meta goes one step further in this possibility that until now could only be activated for WhatsApp.