How to limit comments on an Instagram post? Check step-by-step guide

Handling comments on Instagram can be tricky. Whenever Instagram user posts a picture on the platform, they are excited to see the reaction of their friends and followers in the form of comments. While some comments are encouraging and friendly, there might be a situation when a random person or bad actor shows up on one's profile with inappropriate comments. While users can directly delete offensive or inappropriate comments, Instagram provides Comment controls that allow users to get a hand on who can comment on their post and who cannot. 

How to limit comments on an Instagram post?

• Open Instagram and head over to the post for which comments are to be limited.
• Open the comments section by tapping on the number of comments shown below the caption and the like count.
• In the following screen, tap on the three dots situated at the top right corner of the screen.
• This is the "Comment controls" menu.
• The options included in this menu are categorised into the following categories
  • For all posts: this has more options that are related to hiding comments from all the posts on Instagram.
    • It includes managing a custom word list that can be detected and hidden by Instagram whenever detected in the comments. 
    • Another setting allows users to select who can comment on their posts. Users can set "allow comments from" to everyone, or to their followers only. This setting can also be used to block comments from specific users.
    • Then there is a privacy setting menu that allows users to change their account status to private if the need be. 
  • For this post: this setting only has one option that allows users to turn off comments for a particular post on their Instagram account. As soon as a user taps on "turn off commenting" all the comments on the post will disappear.
• Using both these settings, users can manage the comments that are made by other people on their posts.

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