How To Remove/Delete All Followers on Instagram
Want to clean up your Instagram followers? Feeling overwhelmed? Let’s clean things up! Noticed a bunch of random accounts following you on Instagram? It happens when your profile’s public, letting anyone follow without permission. This can lead to a crowd of unfamiliar faces in your following list.
In this guide, we’ll walk you through a few ways to remove unwanted people from your Instagram follower list so that you don’t see a swarm of unfamiliar faces following you.
If you have set your Instagram profile to public, anyone can follow you without sending a follow request. Because of this, you may notice that many random accounts you don’t know are following you. Make sure to make your Instagram account private to avoid this from happening.
Can You Remove All Instagram Followers in One Go?
No. Instagram doesn’t offer any feature that allows you to bulk remove or unfollow all the followers and start fresh. You may want to delete the account and restart with a new one if it’s too much.
How to Remove Instagram Accounts You Don’t Follow From Followers List
Instagram makes it easier to identify the people you don’t follow with the native categories option. You can use this feature to find accounts you don’t follow and remove them from your follower list.
Here’s how you can find accounts that follow you, but you don’t follow them on Instagram:
- Open the Instagram app on your phone and head to your profile section.
- Tap on the Followers option.
- Select the Accounts You Don’t Follow Back option under Categories.
- Press the Remove button next to the profile of the person you want to remove from your followers list.
- Hit the red Remove button to confirm your choice.
This method is the easiest way to determine which accounts you don’t know are following you on Instagram and remove them from your follower list.
If you don’t want to go through all this hassle, consider hiding your followers and following list on Instagram.
How to Remove Instagram Followers You Least Interact With
Similarly, Instagram allows you to check the list of people you least interacted with and remove them from your follower list.
- Open the Instagram app on your phone and head to your profile section.
- Tap on Followers.
- Select the Least Interacted With option under Categories.
- Press the Remove button next to the profile of the person you want to remove from your followers list.
- Hit the red Remove button to confirm your choice.
That’s it. These were all the official possible ways to eliminate unwanted people from your Instagram follower list.
These categories sometimes may not appear when you want, and it may take multiple attempts to see them finally.
Why You Should Avoid Using Third-Party Apps to Remove Instagram Followers
There is no official method to remove multiple accounts from your Instagram follower list. Many third-party apps and websites will claim to remove accounts from your Instagram follower list.
However, before using such apps or services, note that Instagram takes its privacy and terms of usage policy seriously. Using these third-party apps and tools is against Instagram’s guidelines. The platform can delete your account permanently if they catch you using such services.
Besides, these services require you to log into your Instagram account on their portal, which means they can access your account without your concern. One of our members at TechJunkie lost their account to one such service.
We suggest you avoid using any third-party apps to get rid of your Instagram followers.
Get Rid of Unwanted Instagram Followers
Do you want to start fresh on Instagram without deleting your account? Don’t worry! While we wait for Instagram’s magical mass-delete feature, there are ways to revitalize your account without sacrificing everything.
If you find this article useful, check out our guide about managing your Instagram notifications.
FAQs
A. If you don’t want a specific person to follow you on Instagram, you can block them or turn your account private. Don’t accept their follow-up request after you make your account private.
A. Yes. Removing a follower on Instagram doesn’t affect DMs. They can continue to send you messages even if they don’t follow you. However, Instagram will place them under the message request section.
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