Table of contents:
- Control how much time you spend on Instagram
- End with Instagram notifications
- Option may not be available yet
There is only one thing in this world capable of making you waste more time than Facebook No, it's not Save Me, but Instagram. The social network of filters has made many users – the kings of posturing – addicted to Stories and the other options that the tool supports.
This means that, without even realizing it, they spend more time with their eyes fixed on the screen than in the arms of their lovers. And Facebook, also owner of Instagram, has noticed.So they have just presented a series of tools with which users, both on Facebook and Instagram, will be able to control the time they spend on these social networks.And manage your addiction more accurately .
Control how much time you spend on Instagram
Soon, this feature will be available to all Instagram users (Facebook as well). It is a feature with which they can verify how much time they spend connected to these applications. To access this functionality on Instagram, simply access the Application Settings section and then select Your Activity
Once inside, you will have at your fingertips a set of graphs in which your day-to-day activity will have been recorded.In this way, you will be able to see which days you have spent more time connected to Instagram and which others have not. You will be able to check the spikes and maybe analyze the reasons. Surely you realize that yours with Instagram is something more than a relationship between user and service Maybe an addiction?
Best of all, this new tool will allow you to change your habits. Because a new function is included, apart from the one already mentioned, with which you can regulate the notifications you receive Do you agree with us that these can end up being a real waste of time?
End with Instagram notifications
Surely you receive them every day and if you are one of those who are always aware of what they say or how others react, it is very possible that you stop doing what you were doing (work, talk, rest) to check what happened on Instagram.
All you have to do to avoid receiving these Instagram notifications is the following:
1. Go to section Notification settings.
2. Select the option Silence push notifications.
From here you will have the opportunity to restrict Instagram notifications for as long as you want. This way you can concentrate on another activity or simply stop living glued to the screen of your mobile phone in case someone dares to like your post.
In this section you can choose if you want to silence notifications permanently or if, on the contrary, you prefer to establish a specific period of time. You can choose from the following intervals: 15 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, or 8 hours.
Option may not be available yet
If you've been looking for this option, you may not have found it yet, because the truth is that these tools, for both Facebook and Instagram , they won't arrive for a few weeks. You should know, however, that you have the option to configure which notifications you want to receive and which others you don't.
Simply do the following:
1. Access the Settings section, within the application of Instagram.
2. Inside the Notifications area, choose Push Notifications.
3. Here you can choose if you want to receive notifications for likes (and from whom),, for comments, for likes in comments, for likes and comments for photos you appear in, for follower requests, for accepted follow requests, for photos you appear in, or Instagram Direct requests.
