One of the most popular Instagram features is the Direct Message (DM) feature. With DMs, users can privately chat one-on-one with their friends or create group chats. While there are plenty of messaging apps out there, there are many people who use Instagram as their main instant messaging service.
At the same time, Instagram wasn’t really designed to organize a whole chat log of DMs, and it shows in the relative lack of tools for managing your DM inbox. Between messages from your friends, spam, and sketchy links sent by scammers, your inbox can quickly become cluttered.
How to Delete Conversations
To delete a conversation, take the following steps:
- Tap the paper airplane at the top-right of your home screen.
- Tap the conversation that you want to delete and drag it to the left or long-press it to bring up the Delete option.
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- Tap Delete.
Once you do this, the conversation will no longer be in your inbox. Keep in mind that the other person will still have access to the full conversation.
If you’re trying to just get rid of certain conversations, you can also use the Search function to find those conversations rather than having to scroll through your entire DM inbox. You can type a person’s name in the search bar at the top of your screen to find and delete your conversation with them.
Delete Individual Messages
Instagram quietly introduced the Unsend feature a few years ago. It allows you to un-send messages that haven’t been read.
If you’ve never used it before, here’s what you have to do:
- Open up the DM conversation
- Tap and Hold the unwanted message
- Select Unsend Message
This deletes the message for both you and the recipient, so it’s as if you never sent it at all. If you send a message that you later regret, you can delete it before the person even sees it.
Unfortunately, there’s no way to mass delete individual messages either, so you’ll have to do it for every message separately.
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