How to Unfollow Someone on Instagram Without Them Knowing

So you want to unfollow someone on Instagram without their knowledge.

Maybe you get tired of looking at their posts or stories.

Or, you no longer have a good relationship with them.

Either way, there is a solution to stealthily unfollowing people on Instagram.

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

It can even obscure posts from people you care about.

Sometimes, you have no choice but to unfollow these people. But you may still feel guilty.

Therefore, this article contains alternatives to unfollow someone on Instagram without their knowledge.

Table of contents

1. How do I unfollow someone on Instagram?

2. How to unfollow someone on Instagram without their knowledge

3. What happens after you block someone on Instagram?

4. Will someone know if you have blocked them?

5. What happens after you mute someone?

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

7. What happens after you remove someone from your followers list?

8. Does the person know that you deleted them?

9. What about the reverse (you can follow someone on Instagram without them knowing)?

10. Conclusion

How do I unfollow someone on Instagram?

Here’s how you can unfollow someone on Instagram.

Just search for the username of the person you want to unfollow.

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

Finally, tap “Unfollow” once the navigation pane is open.

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

How to unfollow someone on Instagram without them knowing

So, how do I unfollow someone on Instagram without them knowing?

To unfollow someone on Instagram without their knowledge, you can block, mute, or remove them from your follow list.

Some alternatives to unfollowing are to block, mute, or remove someone from your watch list.

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

Read on to learn how to use each solution in detail.

1. Block them

The first alternative to unfollowing someone on Instagram without their knowledge is to block them.

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

You still won’t be tracked after you unblock them.

Here’s how you can block someone on Instagram.

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

First, search for the user you want to block.

Then, tap on the “three-dot icon” in the right corner of your screen (as shown in the image below).

Tapping the ellipsis icon opens the navigation pane.

Go to the next step to block the user.

Select “Block”, then “Remove”.

The final step is to tap on “Block”.

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

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

That’s it — you’ve learned how to block someone on Instagram.

What happens after you block someone on Instagram?

After you block someone on Instagram, they will be removed from your followers and your watchlist, as well as theirs.

In addition, you will no longer see their posts or stories, and they will no longer be able to see yours.

This means that the person can’t find your profile on Instagram anymore unless they use a secondary account.

If you decide to unblock them one day, you will have to follow them again because you are no longer on their follower list.

Will someone know if you have blocked them?

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

The short answer is ⁠—usually no.

Blocking is an alternative to unfollowing someone they don’t know.

Here’s why.

Usually, most people have an Instagram tracking app on their device (if they’ve been using Instagram for a while).

These apps can track a variety of actions, such as who unfollowed, followed or unfollowed you on Instagram.

There are also extras like checking your best followers, ghost followers and worst followers based on their engagement.

However, these extras require you to pay a one-time, monthly or yearly subscription fee to get access to them.

Similarly, knowing who blocked you is an extra feature.

Most people don’t want to pay for these extras, so they won’t be able to tell if you’ve blocked them.

2. Hide their posts/story

Another way to unfollow someone they don’t know is to hide their post or story.

This is how you can hide someone’s post or story.

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

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

Then, tap the “three dots” icon in the right corner of their post.

Unfortunately, you cannot mute users from their profile.

As a result, you’ll have to manually scroll through your feed until you find the user’s post that you want to hide.

This can take a while, especially if users don’t post much.

Tap on “mute”.

After you tap the “three dots” icon, a navigation pane will pop up.

Then, tap on “mute”.

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

Finally, tap on “Mute Posts” if or “Mute Posts and Stories”.

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

Tap “Mute posts and stories” if you want to mute both their posts and stories. This means 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 have successfully learned how to hide posts and stories!

What happens after you mute someone?

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

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

You can always mute someone if you want to review their posts/story.

If you accidentally mute someone’s post, you’ll have to remember their username to mute them.

If not, you can try finding them on your timeline if you haven’t muted their story.

Does the person know that you muted them?

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

The short answer is — no, the person won’t know that you’ve muted them.

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

If you don’t like what someone posts, you can hide their post.

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

3. Remove them from your watchlist

The ultimate alternative to unfollowing someone they don’t know is to remove someone from your watch list.

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

Go to your profile and tap on “Followers”.

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

This will take you to your list of followers.

Search for the user you want to remove and tap “Delete”.

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

First, you can search for the user you want to remove following you and tap on “Delete”.

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

After you tap “Delete”, there will be a pop-up confirming whether you want to remove the user as a follower.

Tap “Delete” to confirm.

And you are done.

You’ve learned how to get rid of someone following you!

What happens after you remove someone from your followers list?

If you remove someone as a follower, they will no longer be on your follower list.

This means that the person will no longer see your posts on their feed or your story 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/story, you can remove the user as a follower.

This is an extra step after you unfollow someone.

Will that person know that you removed them?

Similar to the previous two solutions, the person won’t be notified that you’ve removed them as a follower.

The answer is — no, the person won’t know that you’ve removed their follower status unless they intentionally access your profile.

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

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

Even so, they may have forgotten that they followed you, so it’s highly unlikely that someone knows that you removed them from your follow-up list.

What about the opposite (you can 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.

Every time you follow someone on Instagram, they will get an “x has started following you” message.

The only way you can follow someone without them knowing is by using an alternate account with no general followers.

However, if you’re trying to follow a private account, that person must still approve your tracking request.

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

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

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Conclusion

Sometimes, when you want to unfollow someone on Instagram, you may not want them to know.

If that’s the case, there are three ways you can do this.

• Block them
• Hide their posts/story
• Remove them from your follower list

Here are three alternatives you can use instead of unfollowing them.

The first few will work 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 follower list will prevent your posts from showing up on their feed and timeline stories.

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