Following criticism from users and, more importantly, comments from the Kardashians, Instagram has decided to reverse its latest changes. One of the biggest complaints was around the excessive number of recommendations. His proposal contemplated showing you 15% more recommended publications. What exactly are the latter? Well, nothing more than videos or photos of people you don’t know, but that the app’s algorithm thinks might interest you.
Mark Zuckerberg has assured that this figure is going to double by 2023. However, for now Instagram allows you to show fewer recommendations. This feature probably won’t be around forever, given the social network’s intentions. Of course, it is one that you can take advantage of during this period of changes in the application.
During one of his Stories this week, Adam Mosseri mentioned one of Instagram’s new features. This is one that allows you to disable all recommendations, at least temporarily. With it, the social network will stop showing you profiles that you do not know, although only for a period of 30 days. But nobody stops you to activate it again.
How to turn off Instagram recommendations for 30 days
- The first thing you are going to have to do is find a publication of this type. scroll through your feed until you see a profile that you don’t know, or that has been recommended “Because you follow…”. Do not confuse recommendations with advertising, it is not the same, and the latter cannot be deactivated.
- When you find it, touch the “X” next to the username by which Instagram has recommended this new profile to you. This will hide the post. But that’s not all we want. Here we want to disable all recommendations for as long as possible.
- Once you have done the above, a new menu will open. These extra options will allow you to customize the behavior of the recommendations. Among them, we have not suggesting related publications, or not suggesting that particular profile. What matters to us is “Pause all suggested posts in the feed for 30 days“.
- Of course, choose this option. Subsequently, a message will be displayed announcing that all recommendations have been paused for 30 days.
Now, you should no longer see any more recommendations on Instagram during the proposed time. Once the 30 days have elapsed, will reappear. In that case, you can follow this same procedure to make them disappear again.