---
title: "How to Mute Someone on Instagram Without Unfollowing"
description: "Tired of seeing someone’s posts on your Instagram feed or stories? There’s a way to hide their posts from your feed without them even knowing!"
datePublished: "2021-03-01"
dateUpdated: "2021-02-28"
author: "Alexandra Ceambur"
authorImage: "/img/blog/authors/profile-pic-alexandra-allebusinesscoach.webp"
postType: "blog"
tags: ["instagram", "account management"]
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imageHeight: 1600
---

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Tired of seeing someone’s posts on your Instagram feed or [stories](/blog/instagram-stories)? 😖 There’s a way to hide their posts from your feed without them even knowing! 😜 In this post, we’ll show you how to do that.

**Jump to**

1. [How to mute Instagram posts](https://#how-to-mute-instagram-posts-🔇)
2. [How to mute Instagram Stories](https://#how-to-mute-instagram-stories-🔇)

Instagram allows you to hide someone’s posts using the “mute” function. 

### What happens when you “mute” someone on Instagram? 🤐 

By muting an account you’re choosing to have their posts hidden from your feed or story - thus limiting interactions with an account. You can also unmute any accounts if want to start seeing their posts back in your feed.

**So how do you mute someone’s Instagram post without unfollowing them?**

## How to mute Instagram posts 🔇

Search for a profile you want to stop seeing posts

1. Tap on their profile
2. Click on “Following”
3. Choose “Mute”
4. Toggle between “Posts” and “Stories”

## How to mute Instagram Stories 🔇

There’s another way you can hide someone’s story posts without having to visit their profile. 

1. Go to your Story feed
2. Tap and hold on a user’s avatar 
3. Click “Mute”

When you choose to mute someone’s stories, Instagram will send their posts to the end of your Story feed and won’t auto-play their videos. You can anytime “unmute” 🔔 them, by visiting their profile, tapping on the “Following” button and select “unmute”.

That’s all! 🙌You’ve now learned how to mute someone’s Instagram posts or stories from your feed without them even knowing.