Instagram is one of the most popular social media with millions of users all around the world. With ability to use voice messages, photo and video messages, Instagram group conversations and other useful messaging feature on computers or smart phones, many users has chosen Instagram to be one of their main messaging app. Instagram group can be a great place to share same interests with groups of your friends on Instagram.
How to create Instagram group chat?
You can create Instagram group conversation to share similar contents to group of your Instagram friends through Instagram Direct. To do so you just need to send a message to 2 or more people and then your group is created. To create a new group conversation on Instagram follow the instruction below step by step.
- Install the latest version of Instagram on your device.
- Tap the direct icon on Instagram home page and enter your direct inbox.
- Tap the plus icon in the top right.
- Select 2 or more people from the list of your Instagram friends.
- Tap next.
- Type a message, select a photo or video from your library or tap take a new one. You can use Instagram decorating features on the photos and videos you select to send.
- Tap send.
Once you tap send your Instagram group is created and you can choose a name for it and add new members to your group at any time you wish so.
How to choose a name for Instagram group?
you can add a name for your Instagram group as soon as you create it by following the instruction above. Here is how to name your group.
- Enter your direct inbox.
- Tap the group conversation you want to name it.
- Tap Name this group… at the top of the group conversation.
- Type your desired name and tap done.
Any member in the group would be able to choose a name and you do not have to be the creator.
How to rename Instagram group conversations?
You can always rename Instagram groups at any time after creation if you wish so. Remember that if you want to rename a group it must have three or more people as members. To rename a group conversation in Instagram Direct follow the steps below.
- Install the latest version of Instagram on your device.
- Tap the direct icon on the app’s home page and enter the direct inbox.
- Choose the group conversation you want to rename and tap on it.
- At the top of the group screen tap on the current name.
- On the appeared group settings screen tap on the name text box.
- Enter a new name as you wish and tap Done.
Once you rename a group, all the members would be able to see that you have done it. You do not have to be creator of the Instagram group to rename it.
How to leave an Instagram group?
Groups sometimes can be unwanted specially when it is one Instagram while it might not be your default messaging app. So you can always choose to leave a group on Instagram to stop receiving messages from the group. Here is how to do it step by step.
- Tap the direct icon on Instagram app and enter your inbox.
- Tap the group conversation you want to leave and open it.
- Tap on the group name at the top of the group chat screen.
- Tap Leave Conversation.
- Confirm your action.
How to add members to Instagram group conversations?
If you want to add more members to your group on Instagram after you create it you can do it if your group has already 3 members. In order to add people to a group on Instagram Direct follow the instruction below.
- Enter Instagram direct inbox on your device.
- Choose the group conversation you want to add people to.
- Tap on the group name at the top of the group chat screen.
- Tap Add People option next to Members.
- Choose the people you want to add and tap on them.
Keep in mind that you do not have to be creator to be able to add people to Instagram groups. All the current members have the possibility to add new members.
What happens when you add someone to an Instagram group?
If you want to add someone to groups you might consider that what would they be able to see when they join the group. It is important to know if you add new members to Instagram groups they would be able to see all of the previous messages, except photos and videos that were disappeared once they were sent.
How to mute Instagram group conversations?
It happens when group notifications can be annoying while you are not able to leave group for any reason, in this case you can choose to mute the particular group to still be included in the conversation but not to receive notifications from it. In order to mute notifications from a group on Instagram Direct follow the steps below.
- Tap the direct icon and enter your direct inbox.
- Tap on the group you want to mute it.
- Tap the group name at the top of the chat screen.
- Choose to Mute Messages or Mute Video Chat on the appeared screen.
Frequent questions and answers
Your Instagram group can have up to 32 members and it must at least have 3 members that you be able to go through group settings and add new members.
You can always delete a group chat similar to other chat conversation. By this the group conversation would only be deleted for you and other members would still have access to it. On Android long press on the specific group conversation and tap delete. On iOS swipe left and tap delete.
You can see the name of viewers under any particular message in a group near the small eye icon whether you are the sender of that message or not.
Yes. If you add new people to a group on Instagram they are able to see the older messages as well as new messages.
You can like group messages similar to like any other Instagram messages.
On the inbox screen under the name of any group you can see a text that states how many members where active today.
Among members of an Instagram group they might be users that have blocked you. Then you are not able to see their messages in case they share something.
You can always send a post directly yo people on Instagram by tapping the share icon under any particular post. If you do so on the appeared list you can choose the users you want to send the post in case you choose multiple users then you would automatically create an Instagram group.
Once you add someone into a group on Instagram you will not be able to remove them unless they choose to leave the group.
You can tap on the camera icon at the top of the group conversation to start group video chats with the members of the group.
Although you can delete or unsend Instagram regular messages but you can never delete them within the group conversations. However you can choose to delete a Group conversation but it would only be removed from your inbox not anyone else.
