Instagram shows me someone else's notifications. How to avoid it?

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This post is the result of the comments of several of you in which the same question was always repeated; ""Why is Instagram showing me someone else's notifications?? ». As we see that this is a fairly common obstacle, especially for people who manage different Instagram accounts from the same phone, today we are going to explain a series of tips that will help you prevent this from happening again.

How to avoid surprises with Instagram notifications.

As we have talked about before, this problem is repeated especially in people who use the same phone to manage multiple accounts on Instagram, again further proof of the need for Instagram to have the multi-account option.

That this option is a basic need for many of us does not mean that Instagram is interested in enabling it, mainly for spam reasons (you already know the problems that Instagram has right now to control spam) and that is why it is not useful for you No other option but to follow the advice that we are going to give you below, if you do not want your application to start behaving strangely by showing you notifications from other people.

Put yourself in the situation, imagine the case where you lend your phone to a friend to access their Instagram account or basically you intend to access your business account to post a video or a photo. When you're done, log out of that account and log back in. log in in your personal account, and suddenly you start receiving notifications from Pleasures and comments that have nothing to do with your posts. In reality, you review the notifications and realize that they all correspond to the account you had connected before! How, but what happens? Well yes, that is what happened as an example to Some:

, or Irvin:

, and the problem continues to repeat itself in other users. Well, the answer is quite simple and does NOT require you to uninstall the app and reinstall it.

All you need to do is delete the data from the Instagram app cache so that there are no issues with session changes. To delete Instagram cache data, you basically need to follow these steps:

• iOS (iPhone, iPad or iPod)
  1. Download and install iFunBox on your computer or Mac.
  2. Once you have it installed, connect your iPhone to your computer or Mac.
  3. Select the app on which you want to clear cache. In this circumstance the application would be Instagram.
  4. Now go to the folder «library«.
  5. To finish, delete the folder that says «Caches«
• Android (on Android it is much simpler because you do not need to install anything to delete the cache)
  1. Press the button "Menu»And have access«Settings > Apps > Manage apps«
  2. Now click on the «Discharged»And select Instagram.
  3. To finish, press «clear cache"and ready! (You can also select the option «Delete data«, If you want to do a more complete cleaning of the application)

Once you have cleared the cache data, try again. log in in your account and you should no longer receive notifications from another user.

And what happens when your Instagram account is connected to your Facebook profile?

In this circumstance, two things can happen:

1. Instagram starts showing you notifications like «A Facebook friend has joined Instagram«Without that person being truly your friend on Facebook. This is what happened to Lina:

   

2. When you give the option of «Find friends on Facebook»From the Instagram application, suddenly, the people who appear to you do not correspond to your Facebook friends. The same case as that of Ana:

   

Here the answer is very simple and in both cases it is the same. Basically log out of the Facebook app on your phone, then go to Instagram and reconnect both profiles (for this case, it will ask you to log in again on your Facebook profile). And that's it, you can do the test by selecting the option «Find friends on Facebook»And if everything has gone well, it should correctly show you your Facebook friends, while obviously not showing you notifications from other users.

In short, if you have also experienced an obstacle of this type and have also asked yourself the question of Why does Instagram show someone else's notifications?, you already know that there is a very simple and quick way to solve it without having to uninstall and reinstall the application. We hope that these tips help you make managing different accounts on Instagram more bearable and that you don't have to give it up due to problems of this type.

And you, what other problems have you experienced with Instagram notifications?