Today, we\u2019re launching Quiet mode on Instagram to help people focus and to encourage people to set boundaries with their friends and followers. Once it\u2019s enabled, you won\u2019t receive any notifications, your profile\u2019s activity status will change to let people know and we\u2019ll automatically send an auto-reply when someone sends you a DM.<\/span><\/p>\n Teens have told us that they sometimes want to take time for themselves and might be looking for more ways to focus at night, while studying and during school. You can easily customize your Quiet mode hours to fit your schedule and once the feature is turned off, we\u2019ll show you a quick summary of notifications so you can catch up on what you missed.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyone can use Quiet mode, but we\u2019ll prompt teens to do so when they spend a specific amount of time on Instagram late at night. Quiet mode is available to everyone in the US, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand starting today, and we hope to bring it to more countries soon.<\/span><\/p>\n We want to give people more control over the content they see on Instagram, so we\u2019re introducing new features that allow people to tell us what content they don\u2019t want recommended to them.<\/span><\/p>\n First, you can now choose to hide multiple pieces of content in Explore that you aren\u2019t interested in at one time. Additionally, when you select Not interested on a post seen in Explore, we\u2019ll aim to avoid showing you this kind of content going forward in other places where we make recommendations, like Reels, Search and more.<\/span><\/p>\n Next, while <\/span>you can already hide comments and DMs containing specific words<\/span><\/a>, we\u2019re now expanding this feature to apply to recommended posts you might see across Instagram. Add a word or list of words, emojis or hashtags that you want to avoid \u2014 like \u201cfitness\u201d or \u201crecipes\u201d \u2014\u00a0 and we\u2019ll work to no longer recommend content with those words in the caption or the hashtag. You can access this in the Hidden Words section of Privacy settings.<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to providing teens with more ways to manage their time and experiences on Instagram, we want to help parents be more aware of the choices their teens make, and make it easier for them to have discussions with their teens about their settings through <\/span>Family Center and supervision tools<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Recently, we added the ability for parents to see their teen\u2019s Instagram settings, including <\/span>privacy and account settings<\/span><\/a>. If their teen updates a setting, parents will receive a notification so they can talk to their teen about the change. Parents can now also view accounts their teen has blocked.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Image](\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/01_Status-1.png?resize=960%2C836\")
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