How to activate notifications on Instagram

Instagram, like any other social network, offers notifications that notify you of the "likes" of the publications, of the new comments, of direct messages, of the live broadcasts that are launched, etc. To be up to date with all the events that occur in your profile, activate notifications.

Enable Instagram notifications

Next we will see two options to activate notifications, one for the smartphone and one for the PC.

Option 1: Smartphone.

If you are a user of the Instagram application on an Android or iOS smartphone, you should receive notifications about important events that occur on the social network. Despite this, if you do not receive any notification, you just have to spend a couple of minutes setting it up.

iPhone

The activation of notifications for the iPhone is done through the phone settings, and the detailed configuration is already found directly within the Instagram application itself.

1. Open your phone settings and go to “Notifications”..
2. In the list of installed applications, find and open Instagram.
3. To enable Push messages on Instagram, activate the option “Enable notifications”.. Just below you can have access to more advanced settings, like the sound of beeps, display a label on the app icon, choose a popup banner type, etc. Make the desired configuration and exit the configuration window; all changes will be applied immediately.
4. Despite this, if you want to establish what type of alerts will reach your smartphone, you must work with the application itself. To do this, start instagram, at the bottom of the window, open the tab on the right and then select the gear icon.
5. In the block. “Notifications”. open section “Push notifications”. Here you have access to settings such as the activation of the vibration, as well as the configuration of notifications for different types of events. When all necessary settings are configured, just exit the settings window.

Android

1. Open your smartphone settings and go to “Notification and status bar”.
2. Select the post. “App notifications”. In the next window of the list, find and open Instagram.
3. Here you configure the notifications for the selected application. Make sure you have activated the option “Show notifications”.. All other items can be configured at your discretion.
4. In the same way as with the iPhone, you must start Instagram to configure your alerts in detail. Go to your profile page and hit the three-bar icon in the upper right corner. From the list that appears, select “Settings”..
5. In the block. “Notifications”. open section “Push notifications”. Here you can configure notifications, In other words: who will you receive them from, as well as what events the phone will notify you of.

Option 2: computer

If your computer is running Windows 8 the superior, you can also have Instagram on your computer: all you have to do is install the official Microsoft Store app. At the same time, you can receive alerts about new events.

Read more: How to install Instagram on your computer

1. Right click on the icon “Start”. and select “Choices”.. You can also access this window with a hotkey combination by pressing simultaneously To win + me.
2. Choose section “System”..
3. In the left area of ​​the window, open the tab “Notifications and actions”.. On the right side, you will see general notification settings items that will apply to all applications on your computer.
4. In the same window, just below, make sure near the item “Instagram”. the toggle switch has been placed in the active position.
5. Advanced notification alternatives, as in the case of the smartphone, they are already opened directly through the application. To do this, start instagram, go to your profile page and click on the gear icon.
6. On the left side of the window, select section “Instant notification settings”. The notification settings for the different types of events will open on the right. Make the necessary changes and then close the configuration window.

Configure notifications and keep up to date with all the events that occur on Instagram. We hope this post is useful to you.

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