Instagram’s Vanish Mode is a privacy feature that allows its users to send messages that disappears once they are seen and the user leaves the chat. In other words, Vanish mode is a feature on Instagram that allows users to send temporary messages, photos, and videos to keep the conversation private without any back up of the texts and messages.
In this article, we have provided the steps to enable and disable Vanish Mode to send disappearing on Instagram in a quick and easy guide along with the step by step process for the same.
Why Use Vanish Mode on Instagram
You need to understand why is it important for users to use the Vanish Mode feature. The various reasons why to use Vanish Mode are:
- Privacy: The messages sent while Vanish Mode disappears automatically after seen
- Control: Both the users are notified about the Vanish Mode and both must agree to send messages on vanish Mode
- Security: Vanish Mode feature only works when users are connected and have both followed each other.
- Flexibility: Vanish Mode can be easily turned on or off anytime in a single click
Vanish Mode is very much helpful for sharing private messages and sensitive content that you don’t want to be stored in chat history.
How to Activate Vanish Mode on Instagram
There are two main ways to enable Vanish Mode on Instagram.
Activate Vanish Mode with a Swipe
Step 1: Open the Instagram app and log in to your account
Step 2: Go to Direct Messages (DMs) by tapping the chat icon
Step 3: Open a conversation with the person you want to chat with
Step 4: Swipe upward from the bottom of the screen and release
Step 5: You’ll see the screen turn darker, and a message saying “You’ve turned on Vanish Mode” will appear
Tip: Swipe up again to exit Vanish Mode any time.
Turn On Vanish Mode Through Chat Settings
Step 1: Open the Instagram conversation in your Direct Messages
Step 2: Tap the info icon (i) or the person’s name or at the top right
Step 3: You would see the Vanish Mode (Disappearing Messages) option, click on that
Step 4: Toggle it to On to enable disappearing messages and select the desired way for disappearing messages
Step 5: Toggle it back to Off whenever you don’t want the vanish mode and want to return to normal chat
Tip: Both users of the chat would be notified when Vanish Mode is turned on or off.
How to Disable Vanish Mode on Instagram
You can turn on the vanish mode on Instagram using the two different methods mentioned above. However, if you no longer want the vanish mode on Instagram, you can easily turn it off with the steps mentioned below:
Step 1: Open the Instagram chat where Vanish Mode is active on your DMs
Step 2: Swipe upward from the bottom of the screen and release it OR go into the Chat Settings for the second method
Step 3: Toggle Vanish Mode to Off
Step 4: The screen will return to normal, and your chat history will function as usual
Tip: Your Instagram chat would return back to normal once you’ve disabled the vanish mode on any Instagram chat.
Conclusion
Vanish Mode is a very useful feature for users to keep the conversation private and clean, by keeping the conversations are are meant to be stored for longer period only. Vanish Mode or Disappearing messages can be enabled from different methods and the results from both the methods are the same. Vanish Mode only works with the users whom you’ve followed or when both the users are connected to make the conversation private and temporary.