Instagram users are incredibly perplexed by the new Meta app’s Threads Follow Requests, which we have clarified here.
The capabilities that Meta offers on Instagram Threads, which just went live, are still a mystery to many social media users. Apart from questions regarding hashtags and direct messages, privacy issues have been top of mind for many as they observed alerts from friends and complete strangers well before they downloaded the new program. But there’s a good explanation behind it.
Threads Follow Requests: Who can see your profile
The original Instagram app functions similarly to Threads Follow Requests. It indicates the person who submitted the request is requesting your consent to follow your account on Threads when you receive a request from them, which can be located under Activity on your profile.
Only when you accept the request by selecting the Confirm button do they see your profile? You can choose Hide if you want to reject it. Regardless of who you follow on Instagram and if they follow you back, neither party may see the other’s Threads profiles until the requests have been approved. Since you have complete control over who can access your profile, there is no need for you to be concerned if you discover a row of alerts as soon as you download Threads.
The privacy options on your Instagram account determine who may follow you on Threads. Any user can ask to follow you if it is set to public. However, only your Instagram followers will be able to submit the request if your account is set to private. There is a reason for certain users’ observations that notifications on Threads started to appear before they had downloaded the program.
Users of Instagram may follow the same individuals they follow on Instagram when they download Threads because it comes with a default follow option. Even if you don’t have Threads, you’ll get a default request for being on Instagram that will eventually show up on the Threads app if you do.
This explains why, even if you recently downloaded the app, some messages regarding users on Threads are a few hours old. If you don’t want to accept every request at once, you may also pick and select who you wish to follow.
Threads Follow requests missing
‘Threads Follow requests’ are going missing or vanishing, which is a problem that many users are experiencing.
It seems that the issue arises when a user receives a lot of Threads Follow requests. Notably, the remaining requests disappear once some of them have been approved, which frustrates and perplexes people.
Just signed up to Threads and had a ton of follower requests. They are all gone now. What happened?
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Additionally, the option to accept or reject the requests remains briefly before disappearing when users try to look for accounts that have received them. Some were able to accept them within the time restriction by swiftly hitting the accept button. Others, though, were not as fortunate.
And, without a doubt, manually accepting requests when there are a lot of them becomes a challenging task. According to one of those affected, concealing a follow request causes its deletion as opposed to preserving it in a concealed condition. They go on to say that if a follow request was inadvertently buried, one must submit it again.
Another report that after accepting a few Threads Follow requests, hundreds of others disappeared. Some people have even tried erasing the app’s data in an effort to fix the problem, but this has had no luck.
Fortunately, we have discovered a solution that might assist in resolving your issue. It is advised that you change your profile to private in order to restore the ‘Threads Follow requests’ button to the top of the activity page.
How to confirm all follow requests on threads?
As there is presently no facility available to concurrently confirm all Threads Follow Requests, accepting Follow Requests one at a time might be laborious. To accept all of the requests at once, there is no manage option like in Instagram’s upper right corner. If you have a high number of followers, this might take a lot of time.
If you don’t care about privacy, the option is to switch to a public account. You won’t have to manually approve Follow Requests on Threads going forward. Therefore, Threads Follow Requests can only be approved by users with private accounts before they may be followed. Keep the choice of switching to a public account in mind if you want to accept Threads Follow Requests in bulk.
One essential feature that the software currently lacks in its early phases is the ability to accept all Threads follow requests. However, given the app’s rising popularity, we may soon expect several big improvements from Meta.
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