Instagram Launches Quiet Mode to Allow Users to Pause Notifications

Instagram has introduced a new feature called Quiet Mode, which is designed “to help people focus and encourage people to set boundaries with their friends and followers.”

The feature, according to the company, aims to alleviate users’ anxiety about spending time away from the app by silencing incoming alerts, auto-replying to direct messages (DMs), and changing an account’s status to ‘In Quiet Mode’ to notify followers that the user is not currently active on the app. Although the feature is available to all users, it is specifically designed for adolescent users.

Instagram parent firm Meta said in a blog post outlining the new capabilities that youngsters had occasionally told it they “wanted to take time for themselves and might be seeking for more ways to focus at night, when studying and throughout school.” The new Quiet Mode will prompt teenage users to select Quiet Mode at night in order to encourage them to use the app less during the day, according to the business.

According to Meta, this function was created to “promote people to set limits with their friends and followers” and to “help people focus.” When it is turned on, all notifications are silenced, and the activity status of your profile is changed to indicate that you are in Quiet Mode. The startup claims that when someone sends you a DM, Instagram will also automatically react.

Instagram also updated its Parental Supervision Tools and included additional methods for managing recommendations in its most recent blog post. Now, users have the option to conceal multiple items of content from Explore at once. A phrase or collection of words, emoticons, or hashtags that you want to avoid can also be added by users.

We recently launched a feature that allows parents to view their teen’s Instagram privacy and account settings. Parents will be notified if their kid updates a setting so they may chat to their teen about the change. Parents can now see the accounts that their adolescent has blocked, according to the post.

Starting today, users in Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and the US can use Quiet Mode. Quiet Mode will soon be made available in other locations.

President of Global Affairs at Meta, Nick Clegg, tweeted, “Teens have informed us they’re searching for more methods to focus while studying, during school, and at night, therefore we’ll prompt them to activate “Quiet Mode” when using the service. Users in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand can access it right away. More nations will be included soon.”

Before, Instagram made an attempt to create tools to aid users in time management. The app already has a function that sends users alerts so they can keep tabs on how much time they spend using it each day.

The app also provides tools to pause, snooze, restrict, and unfollow pages, groups, and people to help reduce interaction with addictive or otherwise irrelevant posts. These tools can be set up to prompt you to “take a break” when specific app sessions last longer than a predetermined amount of time.