👻 Hide Your Instagram Following List — No App, Just This Message

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:locked: Hide your IG follows ➜ no app, no password ➜ send IG one message daily for a week ➜ the list disappears

That “who you follow” list everyone can snoop? There’s a way to make it vanish — straight from inside the app, free.

Right now anyone can tap your profile and scroll exactly who you follow and who follows you. No setting hides it — Instagram just doesn’t give you the toggle. But there’s a backdoor request you fire off from inside the app itself, and people swear that repeating it for a week makes the list disappear. No third-party app, no password, no risk. Just you, your phone, and a copy-paste message.

Here’s the whole thing.

👻 The exact steps — copy, paste, send

1. Open Instagram → go to your Following list
2. Shake your phone — a little menu pops up (this is IG’s hidden “report a problem” shortcut)
3. Tap “Report a Problem”
4. Tap “Include and Continue”
5. Paste this exact message and hit send:

Hello Instagram Team,

I am writing to request the ability to hide or restrict 
visibility of my followers and following lists on my 
personal profile. This feature is essential to protect 
my privacy, as the current visibility is causing 
significant inconvenience.

Thank you for your support and understanding.
🔑 The part that actually makes it work

One send won’t do it. The trick is repeating the whole thing once a day for a week — same steps, same message. People report the list quietly goes private after that.

:light_bulb: Best times to send: early morning or late night. That’s when it’s worked most for people.

:white_check_mark: Do

  • Send the exact message — don’t reword it
  • Do it daily for a full week, don’t skip days
  • Stick to morning or night sends

:prohibited: Don’t

  • Don’t spam it 10x a day — once daily is the move, flooding looks like a bot
  • Don’t use any “hide follower” app for this — none of them work, half are sketchy
  • Don’t expect it instantly — it’s a slow burn over the week, not a one-tap switch

Worked for you? Drop a :+1: and tell the thread which day it kicked in — handy for everyone trying it.