How to Unfollow Someone on Instagram Without Them Knowing

So you want to unfollow someone on Instagram without them knowing.

Maybe you’re tired of seeing their posts or stories.

Or, you’re no longer on good terms with them.

Either way, there is a solution to unfollow people on Instagram sneakily.

Some people post way too much. So much that it might overwhelm your feed.

It might even obscure the posts from people that you care about.

Sometimes, you’re left with no choice but to unfollow these people. But you might still feel guilty.

Hence, this article contains alternatives to unfollow someone on Instagram without them knowing.

Table of Contents

1. How do you unfollow someone on Instagram?

2. How to Unfollow Someone on Instagram Without Them Knowing

3. What happens after you’ve blocked someone on Instagram?

4. Will someone know if you’ve blocked them?

5. What happens after you mute someone?

6. Will the person know that you have muted them?

7. What happens after you removed someone as a follower?

8. Will the person know that you have removed them?

9. How about the other way around (can you follow someone on Instagram without them knowing)?

10. Conclusion

How do you unfollow someone on Instagram?

Here’s how you can unfollow someone on Instagram.

Simply search for the username of the person that you want to unfollow.

Then, navigate to their profile and tap on ‘Following’.

Lastly, tap on “Unfollow” once the navigation drawer is opened.

When you unfollow someone on Instagram, their profile will be changed to “follow” instead of “following”

How to Unfollow Someone on Instagram Without Them Knowing

So, how do you unfollow someone on Instagram without them Knowing?

To unfollow someone on Instagram without them knowing, you can either block, mute, or remove them from your following list.

Some alternatives to unfollowing are blocking, muting, or removing someone from your following list.

If you use these three ways, you don’t have to unfollow someone directly.

Read on to find out how to use each solution in detail.

1. Block them

The first alternative to unfollow someone on Instagram without them knowing is to block them.

You can unblock them after if you don’t want them to know that you’ve blocked them.

You will still remained unfollowed after you’ve unblocked them.

Here’s how you can block someone on Instagram.

Navigate to their profile and tap on the “triple dots icon”.

Firstly, search for the user that you want to block.

Then, tap on the “triple dots icon” on the right-hand corner of your screen (as shown in the picture below).

Tapping on the triple dots icon will open a navigation drawer.

Move on to the next step to block the user.

Select “Block”, then “Dismiss”.

The final step is to tap on “Block”.

Then, a pop-up message will appear. Tap on “Dismiss” to return to the user’s profile.

If the block worked, the follow button on the user’s profile will be changed to “unblock”.

And that’s it — you’ve learnt how to block someone on Instagram.

What happens after you’ve blocked someone on Instagram?

Once you blocked someone on Instagram, they will be removed from your followers and your following list, as well as theirs.

Additionally, you will no longer see their posts or stories, and they can no longer see yours.

This means that the person can no longer find your profile on Instagram unless they use a secondary account.

If you decide to unblock them one day, you’ll have to follow them back again as you are no longer in their followers list.

Will someone know if you’ve blocked them?

Will someone know if you’ve blocked them on Instagram?

The short answer is ⁠— usually not.

Blocking is an alternative to unfollowing someone without them knowing.

Here’s why.

Typically, most people have an Instagram tracker app on their device (if they’ve used Instagram for quite some time).

These apps can track multiple actions such as who unfollowed, followed or are not following you on Instagram.

There are also additional features such as checking your best followers, ghost followers, and worst followers based on their engagement.

However, these additional features require you to pay a one-time, monthly, or yearly subscription in order for you to have access to them.

Similarly, knowing who blocked you is an additional feature.

Most people are unwilling to pay for these additional features, so they won’t be able to know if you’ve blocked them.

2. Mute their posts/stories

Another alternative to unfollowing someone without them knowing is by muting their posts or stories.

Here’s how you can mute someone’s posts or stories.

Scroll through your feed and find the user that you want to mute and tap on the “triple dots” icon.

Firstly, scroll through your feed and find the user that you want to mute.

Then, tap on the “triple dots” icon on the right-hand corner of their post.

Unfortunately, you cannot mute a user from their profile.

Because of this, you’ll have to manually scroll through your feed until you find the post of the user that you want to mute.

This might take a while especially if the user doesn’t post much.

Tap on “mute”.

After you tapped on the “triple dots” icon, a navigation drawer will pop-up.

Then, tap on “mute”.

Tap on “Mute Posts” or “Mute Posts and Story”.

Lastly, tap on “Mute Posts” if or “Mute Posts and Story”.

Tap on “Mute Posts” if you want to mute their posts. This means that their posts will no longer show up on your feed, but they are still accessible if you search for their profile manually.

Tap on “Mute Posts and Story” if you want to mute both their posts and story, This means that their posts will no longer show up on your feed, and their stories will no longer show up on their timeline.

And there you have it.

You’ve successfully learnt how to mute posts and stories!

What happens after you mute someone?

When you mute someone, their posts will no longer show on your feed.

On the other hand, if you mute someone’s stories, their stories will no longer be on your timeline.

You can always un-mute someone if you want to see their posts/stories again.

If you muted someone’s posts by accident, you’ll have to remember their username in order to un-mute them.

Otherwise, you can try finding them on your timeline if you didn’t mute their stories.

Will the person know that you have muted them?

The good thing about the muting someone is that they won’t know about it.

The short answer is — no, the person will not know that you have muted them.

So, the next time you’re thinking about unfollowing someone, you should consider muting their posts instead.

If you don’t like what someone is posting, you can mute their posts.

In addition, you can also mute their stories if you don’t like them.

3. Remove them from your following list

The last alternative to unfollowing someone without them knowing is to remove someone from your following list.

Here’s how you can remove someone from your following list.

Go to your profile and tap on “Followers”.

Firstly, navigate to your Instagram profile and tap on your “Followers”.

This will bring you to your list of followers.

Search for the user that you want to remove and tap on “Remove”.

Once you’re at your list of followers, you can do two things.

Firstly, you can search for the user you want to remove from following you and tap on “Remove”.

Alternatively, you can scroll through your list of followers to manually find the user and tap on “Remove”.

After you’ve tapped on “Remove”, there will be a pop-up message confirming whether you want to remove the user as a follower.

Tap on “Remove” to confirm.

And you’re done.

You’ve learnt how to remove someone from following you!

What happens after you removed someone as a follower?

If you removed someone as a follower, they will no longer be in your list of followers.

This means that the person will no longer see your posts on their feed or your stories on their timeline.

Removing someone as a follower is a great way to prevent someone from seeing your posts or stories without actually blocking or muting them.

So, if you want to prevent someone from snooping on your posts/stories, you can remove the user as a follower.

This is an additional step after you’ve unfollowed someone.

Will the person know that you have removed them?

Similar to the previous two solutions, the person will not be notified that you have removed them as a follower.

The answer is — no, the person will not know that you have removed them as a follower unless they deliberately visit your profile.

The only way someone can find out that you removed them as a follower is if they happen to land on your profile.

And if they do, they might be wondering, “Didn’t I follow this person?”.

Even so, they might have forgotten that they’ve followed you, so it’s highly unlikely that someone knows that you have removed them from your following you.

How about the other way around (can you follow someone on Instagram without them knowing)?

How about the other way around?

Can you follow someone on Instagram without them knowing?

The answer is ⁠— no, you can’t follow someone on Instagram without them knowing unless you use an alternate account to follow them.

Each time you follow someone on Instagram, they will receive an “x started following you” notification.

The only way you can follow someone without them knowing is if you used an alternate account that has no mutual followers.

However, if you’re trying to follow a private account, they person still has to approve your follow request.

This means that if you’re using an alternate account (with no mutual followers) the person is less likely to approve your follow request because it seems like spam.

That being said, if the account is not private, you can still browse someone’s posts without actually following them.

Further Reading

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> How to Unfollow Users on Instagram Who Don’t Follow You Back

> Why Do People Unfollow Me on Instagram?

Conclusion

At times, when you want to unfollow someone on Instagram, you might not want them knowing.

If that’s the case, there are three ways you use to accomplish this.

• Blocking them
• Muting their posts/stories
• Removing them from your list of followers

These are the three alternatives you can use instead of unfollowing them.

The first couple of ways are effective if you want to stop seeing someone’s posts on your feed or stories on your timeline.

On the other hand, removing someone from your list of followers will prevent your posts from showing on their feed and stories on their timeline.

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