#I know my freakout probably seemed disproportionate for what it was but it genuinely really triggered my anxiety

[jattendschaton]

Hey! I'm just someone random but I saw your post from a few days ago talking about how you can't unsend messages on Instagram until the recipient accepts your message request. I ran into this issue recently myself, and I found out the solution after messing around a bit.

All you need to do is log into your account on the desktop browser version of IG and go into your messages. At that point go to the conversation, click the three dots next to the message you want to delete and then "forward" "copy" and "unsend" should pop up. I tested it on some of my own accounts and from what I've seen, if you do it this way the recipient will have no trace of the message you sent.

Oh my goodness hi thank you!!! It was so kind of you to message me this solution!!!

I logged onto my account on a desktop browser and actually it looks like the messages are already gone somehow?? I don't know, I unblocked the artist yesterday to see if the messages would still pop up and they did (so I reblocked them to continue my attempts to hide), but when I unblocked them today to try your solution, they were already gone. I checked again on mobile and even there it looks like the messages are gone ?? I honestly have no idea why but !!!

Even if I didn't actually get to use your solution, it still was helpful to get me to check again and find out the messages were gone. And if this ever happens again, this'll be the first thing I try. Genuinely, thank you for your help—it was really lovely of you to reach out with your expert Instagram knowledge, I really hadn't even thought of trying to fix it over desktop!