If you want a view a private Instagram profile, those that the user has intentionally blocked so that no one, without his approval, can access all the content he publishes on the other social network of Facebook, in this article we are going to show you different methods to try to achieve it.
And when I say try to get it, I mean there is no single method that allows access to the accounts that the user has intentionally blocked, since in this way, it controls all those people who want to see the content that it publishes and can properly restrict it.
The first thing you should know about the operation of private profiles on Instagram is how they work and for this, we are going to show you the steps to follow to make an Instagram profile private.
Make an Instagram profile private
The first thing to keep in mind when converting a public account to a private account is that you can only do it if it is a personal account, since content creator accounts, obviously, cannot become private since it would be meaningless.
- Once we have opened the Instagram application from our Android device, the first thing to do is access the configuration options of the application.
- Within the configuration options, we go to the section Privacy .
- At the top of this menu, we find the option Private account represented by a padlock. To turn our public account into private, we just have to activate the switch.
- From this moment our account:
- Only our followers will be able to see the content we publish.
- We will be able to continue being tagged in photographs, receive messages and anyone will be able to mention us in their publications.
- Immediately afterwards, Instagram will invite us to review our followers, in case we want to clean up and eliminate all those people we do not want to inform about our activities, stories and others.
From that moment, next to our profile a lock will appear in searches that are carried out on Instagram where we appear, but not on our profile, an option that should be changed in the future from the platform so that the user knows at all times if his account is private or public, especially among all those users to whom he he likes to regularly change his state.
Methods to view a private Instagram profile
Request account access
The first step we must do to be able to access a private Instagram account is to follow the user. The problem that we find is that we are not really going to follow it, if by clicking on that button, the user you will receive a message informing you that the user wants to follow you.
He will receive a message where he can confirm or delete the request. Although it is the first method that we have at our disposal, it is not recommended, since the safest thing is that they will quickly deny the request if they do not know us.
Send a message to the account owner
The second method we should try to access a private Instagram profile is to request access sending you a message. If you want the request to be processed as quickly as possible, the best we can do is specify in the message who we are, what relationship we have with him and why we want to access his profile.
In this way, if the user is only looking for privacy and he knows you, will have no problem giving you permission on your bill. If we only send a request to follow, we have little chance of getting it, so this option is always more recommended than the first.
Check other social networks
Some people link the accounts of Facebook, Twitter and other platforms so that, when publishing new content on Instagram, automatically it is also published on other platforms. If so, you just have to look for it on other social networks, especially Facebook for its link to Instagram.
If we find the same problem, that the Facebook profile is not accessible to everyone, we will have to look for other alternative methods, if we have already tried the first two that I have mentioned in this article.
Talk to a friend about the person to follow
If we do not get a response to our requests, we can contact a friend who does have access to your account and urge you to speak with the account user to authorize us to follow you.
Unless it is an account with a large number of followers, it is most likely that if we have not received authorization to follow the account after having requested it repeatedly, lor more likely we will have the same success.
From someone else's account
If it is not possible, we can ask our friend with access to his account, to leave us your device to see the account we want to follow. This is usually the fastest and easiest method when it comes to people in our environment, especially when it comes to a student or academic environment.
Don't trust miracle apps or services
Although Facebook has proven to be a true strainer in terms of safety, that does not mean that everyone can access the data stored on the platform with ease. On the internet we can find a large number of applications and services that claim to grant access to private Instagram profiles.
Nothing is further from reality. These services / applications the only thing they do is save the data of our account and start post spam on our account in addition to continuously sending messages of the same type to our friends.
In addition, they also try to get hold of the datos of our credit card and phone number to send us payment messages. Some of the web pages that offer this supposed service of access to private accounts, are the following:
installer
This is one of the services that ensures us access to private Instagram profiles. But, as I have commented above, nothing could be further from the truth.
When entering the account users name, the website does a kind of access process (to give the appearance of working) and finally it shows us a window in which it invites us to get free products, download free games ...
Phototryck
This web page follows the same process as Instalocker, with the same result. When we click to verify that we are a person, it shows us that the process has failed and that we can choose one of the gifts shown.
The only purpose is to get hold of the credit card detailsas we have to pay for the shipping. Do not even think about introducing them, since it is one of the most common scams that we can find online.
Private PhotoViewer
Private Photo Viewer offers us the same functionality, null, to access the images of private profiles on Instagram, where the only motivation is to get the data from our card to pay the shipping costs of a product that miraculously it has touched us.
