How to understand who blocked your Instagram stories

After noticing that a person you follow no longer posts content on Instagram, there has arisen the doubt whether this has applied some restrictions to you not to see them. So, you are looking on the Internet for a guide that explains specifically how to understand who blocked your Instagram stories. In the next lines we will bring you a couple of solutions to be able to verify it without too many fuss.

How to understand who has blocked you the stories on Instagram: first method

The popular photo social network offers a feature which allows a user to hide their stories from certain followers: their name is Hide my story. This feature is accessible both after publishing a story and through the settings of Instagram.

That said, to find out how to proceed, carefully follow the steps below:

• Open the app on your Android or iOS smartphone / tablet or Windows 10 PC or visit the website of Instagram and log in to your account so that you are on the main page of the social network.
• Once this is done, take the icon up that show a thumbnail of the profile photos of the various users followed. If the person in question hasn't posted any stories in the past 24 hours, then they may have blocked you.
• To remove any doubts, we suggest you log in using a second account (maybe that of your friend or your girlfriend). If you don't know how to proceed, we suggest you read our guide on how to create multiple Instagram accounts and use them together. Alternatively, refer to the first two tutorials under Other Useful Articles.
• Once you have successfully logged in to the according to Instagram profile, take a look at the top and see if the user to check has posted any stories.
• Obviously, in order to see this thing it is necessary that the second profile used follows the person in question or that the latter has a public profile and not a private one. It may also be that it has not blocked you but has chosen to share the story only with close friends using the appropriate feature of Instagram.

How to understand who has blocked you the stories on Instagram: second method

Didn't the first solution allow you to see the stories? You can try a second method that is very simple and easy to implement. In particular, you will have to go to his page Instagram profile and check if he has hidden only the stories or other content such as photos and videos. If you can't see the other posts, then it means that he has blocked you.

Let's see the steps to follow specifically:

• Open the app on your Android or iOS smartphone / tablet or Windows 10 PC or visit the Instagram website via the link provided above, log in and enter the username or the full name in the search field at the top or bottom.
• Once this is done, assuming that the person in question has blocked you, the writing should appear User not found and the wording No posts yet which usually appears when the person does not post any content.
• If, on the other hand, the wording Follow rather than User not found, try clicking / tapping on it and see what happens. If the entry does not appear Follow already, you have most likely been blocked. In this case, you can also take as a reference the presence or absence of the number of followers and users followed.
• To remove any doubts you could try to use a second account (and then follow the procedure indicated above) or make one search for his profile on Google after logging out of your Instagram profile. The latter solution, however, cannot be used if it is a private profile.
• In case you are able to see the published content and a red circle around his miniature profile photo, however, most likely he blocked you from viewing only some of his stories through the appropriate functionality.

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