If you want to secure your from undesired attention, blocking Instagram s is what you’re looking for. But how do you know if someone blocked you and hid their s from your sight? These are several tips on how to tell for sure if other s have blocked your .

How Do You Know If Someone Blocked You on Instagram?

You won’t get any notifications if someone blocks you on Instagram or restricts your actions. With that in mind, let’s tell the difference between the block and restriction.

Instagram Block

If somebody has blocked you, there’s no way you can communicate with them or steal a sneak of their content with this .

Here are multiple ways to tell you’ve been blocked by another on Instagram:

1. You can’t find yourself on the followings or followers lists of this .

2. You can’t find this when searching for them on Instagram from this but can find them searching from another . This is the easiest way to know if someone did block you.

Note that if you can’t find this profile in search results, it doesn’t always mean you’ve been blocked; they might have simply deactivated their .

When someone blocks you on Instagram, all your likes and comments you’ve left under their content are deleted and won’t return once you’re unblocked. Neither will your status as their follower nor your DMs sent to them while you were blocked would be delivered.

Instagram Restriction

Unlike blocking, the Instagram restriction doesn’t affect your entire . Instead, it puts a limit on some interactions you used to make with the . Unfortunately, there aren’t any definitive signs of the restriction, so to know this for sure, you should interact with the using your other Instagram and compare.

However, there are signs that might hint your actions have been restricted:

1. Your comments don’t appear under the ’s post or appear not right after you leave them.

This happens because the who you comment on must approve your comments first. Your comments will only then be visible to the public, when they are approved. If they aren’t, only you will be able to see them.

2. In DM, you can’t see this ’s online or offline status, nor can’t you see whether your text has been read or not.

But this one isn’t the ultimate sign since the can hide the status in their private settings (Settings - Privacy -> Activity Status -> Show Activity Status -> Off).

How to Know Someone Blocked You on Instagram

To confirm or disregard your suspicion, try these:

• Try to search for their name in the Instagram search. If you're blocked, you won't find anyone with this handle.

• Try sending a message to this if you've previously had a conversation with them in DM. If you're blocked, this message will be sent but never delivered to or read by this .

• Go to the ’s through Instagram Direct: you'll see an empty page with no posts or any activity if you're blocked.

If you’ve been blocked by a particular person, you won’t be able to see their posts, followers, followings, or follow them. All you’ll see is the not found message instead of the follow/unfollow button.

Note that when an Instagram is private, you can find it on Instagram, follow them but can’t see their content.

• Open Instagram web and try to search for this again. If you're blocked, you won't find them via Instagram web, either.

• Try to search for this from another Instagram . If you're able to find them, your primary has been blocked by this person.

Install 4K Stogram

4K Stogram is exactly the tool that can help you with the task. Follow the simple steps below to your friends’ private Instagram posts.

1. and launch 4K Stogram. It’s compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux computers.

2. in-app to another Instagram , not the one blocked by the whose content you want to see.

3. Enter the name of an that blocked you or whom you blocked.

4. Press .

All the results will be displayed on the dashboard of 4K Stogram: feed photos, stories, highlights, Reels (posted on the feed), profile pictures, and tagged posts. Thus, you’ll be able to see the content that is hidden from you on Instagram.

What's more, unlike the native Instagram functionality, 4K Stogram allows you to automatically save the content of this on your PC each time you . It means that you don't have to follow this on Instagram, using your fake or search for them on Insta anytime you want to check what they've posted — their content will be on 4K Stogram automatically without them knowing. This function can be turned off, though.

To view where the content is stored on your PC or Mac, hover the mouse over any photo or video and press the three dots at the upper right, then choose the Show in Finder option.