Upcoming Instagram update prevents unsolicited pictures from randoms

Instagram is making it more durable for folks to ship undesirable spam direct messages.

After some testing, Instagram now lets customers who don’t comply with you solely ship a single message invite earlier than they will begin chatting with you, studies The Verge.

Further, customers can not ship unsolicited pictures, movies or voice messages, as these messages can solely comprise textual content. In the previous, Instagram let customers ship limitless message requests, which undoubtedly triggered issues for some.

Users can solely ship extra messages after you’ve accepted their chat request. While this hasn’t modified, message requests dwell in your inbox within the ‘requests’ tab.

“We want people to feel confident and in control when they open their inbox,” Cindy Southworth, Meta’s head of girls’s security, says in a press release. “That’s why we’re testing new features that mean people can’t receive images, videos or multiple messages from someone they don’t follow until they’ve accepted the request to chat.”

Instagram’s proprietor Meta began testing this function to additional push security on the app.

Source: The Verge

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