This article will give an overview of deleting all messages on Instagram and how to do it. Just follow the steps, and you are good to go!
- Switch your personal account to professional.
- Click on your profile.
- Open direct messages.
- Click on the icon with three horizontal lines and three vertical dots.
- Select all conversations and tap Delete.
Overview of Deleting All Messages on Instagram
Instagram DMs lets you communicate with friends, followers, and potential clients if you sell on the app. Over time, you may need to delete older conversations to create space for others and keep your DMs manageable. You may also want to get rid of spam messages from internet marketers. Whatever your reason for deleting messages on Instagram, you need a method that works fast to delete multiple messages at once. Unfortunately, there is no way to delete multiple messages at once on a personal Instagram account. Business and creator Instagram account owners can select and delete all messages on Instagram and send bulk messages to multiple users. Luckily, switching a personal account to a professional one is a few-steps process and reversible. To delete all messages on Instagram, switch the personal account to professional, delete your multiple conversations and revert the account to personal. We will show you how to do it, keep reading!
How To Delete All Messages on Instagram
Deleting Instagram messages one by one is burdensome and time-consuming. To delete all the messages at once, you need to switch your personal account to professional.
Switch Personal Account to Professional
A professional Instagram account can either be a business or a creator’s account. Follow these steps to switch your personal account to a professional one.
Delete All the Messages on Instagram
Follow these steps to delete all messages on Instagram. You may keep the professional account or switch back to the personal one. If you want to revert to your personal account, follow the steps below.
Wrapping Up
There is no way to delete all messages at once on a personal Instagram account. However, you can select and delete multiple conversations at once on a professional account. If you want to delete all messages on your personal account, switch it to professional. You can revert it to personal after deleting the messages if you like.
- Open Direct Messages.
- Open the conversation with the message you want to unsend.
- Press and hold the message you’d like to unsend.
- Click Unsend.
- Open Direct Messages.
- Select the icon with three horizontal lines and three vertical dots.
- Tap the circle on the left of the first conversation to select it.
- Tap all the other conversations.
- Press Delete (x).
- Press Delete again.
