When I try to message a person on Instagram it is showing as, You can’t message this person unless they follow you instagram? How can we text when the message is like You can’t message this person unless they follow you On insta.
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You can’t message this person until they follow you, when you see something like this on Instagram in order to text them you can do few things to try to text them.
First of all the above statement is not an error or something like that. The other person whom you are trying to text on Instagram set the option, to receive message request from people they follow.
So only people they follow will be able to text them.
This is why you are unable to send message and seeing you can’t message this person unless they follow you.
How to text this person if you face: you can ask them by contacting in the comments section to follow you, if their account is public.
If the other person account is private, then you make contact any mutual friend of yours and ask that person for a follow request. In this way you can contact or message the other person if you see the above condition.
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If you’re getting the message “You can’t message this person unless they follow you” on Instagram, it means that the user you’re trying to message has their privacy settings set to only allow messages from people they follow.
To send a direct message to someone who doesn’t follow you on Instagram, you have a few options: