TL;DR: If you are already in the ‘dog house’ go scroll down to find some actions you can try to speed up the process of reinstating your account.
Welcome to the new Instagram! This born-again Instagram is a total paranoid, over protective and has a zero tolerance … to spammers … or anything that ‘looks and acts‘ like spammer.
Don’t get me wrong, the intention is good, in general. It is designed to get rid off fake accounts and spammers that had riddled the service for so long.
Unfortunately for the young and inexperienced users, just a slight ‘unintentional‘ mistake will get them banned! And the worst part is more often than not you’ve got NO clue whatsoever as to WHY you got banned! Sometimes they don’t often give you warning or message.
Instagram today has become a treacherous land to navigate through, it has more traps and mines than Afghanistan after the war. One wrong move and you will feel the wrath of Instagram gods.
But fret not! We’ve come up with these recipes to guide you through the trial of becoming a master of your own Instagram fate. Follow these guides and at least you have a bigger chance to live a normal life as an Instagram citizen:
- 1If you’ve just created a new Instagram account, DO NOT start Liking or Commenting on other people’s photos straight away. This is what fake accounts usually do. Instead, DO start with posting your own photos, at least 10 of them, but not at the same hour, do it 2 a day. After one week past, you can start with your liking or commenting.
- 2DO complete your Instagram profile, including uploading your profile photo and write a short bio. Do not expose yourself to Instagram hunt and destroy Sentinel bot.
- 3DO NOT stop posting photos! Again this is a typical things that spammers do. DO post more and post regularly. Twice a week is enough if you can’t do daily post.
- 4DO NOT Like excessively! This will surely get you banned. The limit is 350 per hour, but I suggest not to max your quota.
- 5DO NOT Follow people en-mass! This is considered to be a spammy and bot-like activity. The limit is 20 per hour. And remember that you can only follow as many as 7500 people, no more. So choose who you follow wisely.
- 6DO NOT post multiple duplicate comments – including emoji. As soon as Instagram detect you doing this it will put you straight away in ‘detention‘! You won’t be able to comment anymore for as long as you are in this proverbial dog house. For how long? Nobody knows.
If you manage to get the notorious ‘Action Blocked‘ message from Instagram, well … you better pray that Instagram will let you in. I’ve heard from various users that the ‘detention’ time can range from a few hours to a few weeks!!!
- 7DO NOT mention users that don’t follow you on other people post, unless they mention you first! This usually happens when our photo has been selected to ‘win’ some competition/weekly challenge etc. and we have people congratulate us. Your first instinct would be to thank them, each of them. Well, try not to do this to much, and definitely not by mentioning more than one people in one comment. It sucks I know, but as I mention at the beginning of this post, this is the new paranoid Instagram.
By the way, the limit to mention other users is 5 per comment. This seems to be ok if they are your followers and when you do it on your own post.
- 8DO be careful when you use Like or Follow Bot services. As a matter of fact, I would suggest that you refrain yourself from using these services. However I won’t deny that there are cases where the use of these bots have its merit. And I am not going to stop you from doing that as long as you understand the risk that you are taking. Instagram and its parent company Facebook has been getting better in detecting these type of activities lately, so don’t say I didn’t tell you so!
- 9DO NOT ignore the Community Guidelines! There are probably tens other things that can get you locked out from Instagram that we don’t know the reason about. So I urge you to read (again) the Instagram community guidelines and try to follow the rules written in there.
Now all of these feel like as if we are living in a dictatorship country, and a little bit of sledgehammer solution, but this seems to be what Instagram had decided to do to try to curb the spammers, fake accounts and bots.
It’s better to be over cautious nowadays, because once you get banned there is no way to tell when or if you will get your account back!
But but but I am already in the ‘dog house’ – what should I do!??
When you get banned it usually takes Instagram from 4 hours up to 4 weeks to reinstate your account. What can you do to speed things up? You can try some of the following actions which had been reported could make the process quicker, though they don’t always work:
- 1If you get one of those pop-up message like the screenshot in the point 6 (the Action Block), use the ‘Tell Us’ button to tell Instagram that they’ve made a mistake. I’ve had some people commenting in this article telling some success stories using this method. After they use the button, Instagram came back (presumably via your registered email address) and was asking some more security information. Instagram then ask the account holder to write the full-name, username and a code Instagram sent to them on a piece of paper and take a picture of themselves holding the paper. After sending the picture to Instagram their account got reinstated after a few days.
- 2Use this official online report form to reach Instagram. Wow! I just been notified by one of the commenter (thanks Kerri!) that the form that this link used to go to has been blocked! That’s just typical Instagram.
Ok, I’ve been looking for other ways to contact Instagram, and here are some of my findings:
- 1From the Instagram app, go to your profile page on tap on the Options menu (the gear icon at the top right hand corner). Scroll down until you find ‘Report a Problem’ menu item, select this and choose ‘Something isn’t working’ from the popup menu. Fill in the form and tap on the Send button.
- 2Go to this Instagram Form for reporting Hacked Account. But say that you cannot access your email account when asked to, then fill in the rest of the form.
Apart from these you might also want to try the followings:
- 1Edit your Bio. I’ve read from some of the comments in this article that changing your bio had made the ban successfully lifted.
- 2Do a clean install of your mobile OS. This seems to me a little bit of a sledgehammer approach. But desperate time requires desperate measure. Besides, it’s been reported in the comment that this method worked.
- 3If your account is disabled – well … that must had been a really serious violation indeed! Reading on this official Instagram Help page, your account can be disabled without warning! If you feel that this was a mistake, you can appeal by logging in back to the account and follow the instruction there.
In the meantime, keep trying every day and see if your ban has been lifted, don’t be afraid to try, your account won’t get deleted or something like that for just trying.
If you come across other reasons that one can get banned or blocked from Instagram, please do share in the comment below, I will update the list with your report.
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Landscaping your bio. Make sure you know how it’ll look before you hit save. If you go back and forth, they will “temporarily” block you from working on it. It just happened to me. It’s been about 30 minutes. I remember, back in the day when IG was preinstalled on droids, one has to send a formal email to IG –officials(?)– requesting to have his/her IG deleted. They responded with a default message informing that the process will take 3-5 business days for the review. IG let it be known that they still have the right to use the users pictures for advertisement purposes or whatever. Now, it’s like checking out at CVS or Walgreens with a debit/credit card–five trillion confirmations and offers before the mile long receipt and a plethora of ridiculous coupons! They will CONFIRM via signing the users virtual John Handcock on cyberspace via IG! If that makes sense? Hahaha!!
I got ban for 7 days and I’m trying to reach them but they won’t help I think it’s because I posted the same thing on my post
I’ve been told that you can wait as long as 4 weeks for the account to be re-instated.
Hi idk what to do I go on Instagram and it says I’m locked out idk the email it has on it and it’s not constructed to Facebook what do i do ??
What does it say exactly?
I’m trying to delete my Instagram account but idk if I can do it because they reset my password and I had a fake gmail sooo is there any other way I can delete it ???
Not as far as I know. You need a real email address to reset your password. Try to use the form that I link at the end of the post.
Hi Chris, I recently moved and had password troubles however I now have the right usernam and password but it won’t let me in. It’s says: “Verify Your Account
We noticed some unusual activity on your account. For your security, you’ll need to request help logging in.” none of the options are on the link. What can I do? Will it eventually ignore the unusual behavior?
No it won’t ignore it, it will keep asking you this because you have moved to a new geography. Didn’t you get an email asking for account verification? Otherwise try to do a password reset. Make sure that you have access to your email.
Hello, I recently was asked to change my insta password which I did, I got an email with a verification email and a security code but before reading I clicked the link thinking it would take me to reset my password but it removed my email account! So when i try resetting password I never get an email! Can you help me? It’s not linked to FB either. Thank you 🙂
Hey, I’m just curious. My account got banned and I was automatically signed out of Instagram. But right afterwards I was blocked from creating new accounts. It keeps telling me I “cannot create a new account right now.” Did it save some data onto my phone that prevents me from creating new accounts on my phone? How long does this last or is it permanent?
How did you fix this issue???
lmao i factory reset when i got a ban like that i got mine from posting a giant image of hitler by uploading segments of the image.
Now how about your instagram?
I’ve been locked out off my instagram and it’s telling me to revive a code via my phone number but my phone number that’s on my instagram is an old one and my email is fake so how do I do this
Are you sure that the likes-limit is 350/hour? I’m asking you cause i found different opinions in the web.
This is the limit if you are using the official Instagram app. For third party apps, the limit is 60/hour.
I lost my ig it got havked but it didnt ban me unti i followed 700 people
Is this a question?
I like around 660 photos from a third party and haven’t been banned yet. Does it usually ban you immediately or delayed?
That means the creator of that 3rd party software understand the limitation and programmed their bots carefully. Usually there is no delay, Instagram will catch you immediately. So, I would be really careful to continue using the bots. You should find out how they do it, what is the frequency of liking, just not to get caught red handed.
Our account got banned because we got hacked and someone reported us for abusive comments. We have no idea what comments they are referring to as our site a business one. We can post photos and like others post but can’t comment or use captions for a week.
You can now comment now?
This happened to me too and I don’t know why! My weeklong ban is up tomorrow…we’ll see what happens!
Please report back here so we know how it goes.
Same thing just happened to me?
Same issue here. Someone gave me a comment reply and that’s when I saw my comment stating follow for 10k followers and stuffs like that and realized this is spam. It happened to me twice and now I’m restricted to comment or put captions in any post.
I think instgram block me from sending a request to other people how can I fix this
You just have to wait for a couple of weeks and try again. Next time don’t follow people too many too quickly. Observe the limit.
They didn’t give me a limit. And how many weeks exactly
Hii Chris I just wanna know that is their any source to recover my account which is disabled because of violating rules!
The only one I know is the form which I linked at the bottom of this post.
I just made a new account and I followed like 91 people and now Instagram won’t let me comment
You probably followed too many too quick. Observe the hourly limit (described on my post).
I wish I would have known about this limit! Going to follow your tips above and hope to get my commenting privileges back.
Hi
I’m wondering if you can help me , when i go to upload a photo on my instagram it won’t let me put a caption or hashtags, this is only since I received a email of instagram for me to change my password cause off suspicious activity, and I got logged out of my instagram account , if you could help me sort it out that would be great, many thanks, Lorna
Did you change your password after Instagram asked you to do?
Its the same with me
Same thing happened to me. I got an email that there was suspicious activity and I needed to reset my password, so O did. Now I can still post pics but I can’t add any captions. I am also blocked from posting any comments. I have no Idea why this is happening. I have been getting a lot of followers lately. Could that be it? I’m so frustrated. The pop up message said the ban will be lifted on thursday.
Be patient and wait for Thursday. Keep us inform if you can.
I noticed that I was getting spammed, people were adding my account to random sales pitch stuff so I started reporting them all and next thing I know I am getting an ACTION BLOCKED message. I thought that was what I was supposed to do. I cannot like or comment anymore just post pictures. How do I fix this.
The action block dialog has a button (Tell Us) to tell Instagram that they are wrong. Did you use that button?
what is the email to reach IG in regards to bringing back my account? I can log on via the web but through the app after I disabled it has been beyond frustrating
There isn’t one. Have you tried the form I linked at the bottom of this post?
Sir,what happens if use the (tell us ) button?cause thats what I did ,it has been like a week now ,plus I can’t comment or edit on my own photo’s. In need of help
Are you saying that after you use the ‘tell us’ button, Instagram didn’t come back with an additional dialog?
This same thing happened to me after tagging multiple people for a giveaway. I used the “tell us” to explain, as well as writing to them with the link you provided, but have heard many other users say they tried both of those with no response. Any other suggestions?
Have you tried to edit your bio?
Yeah I did change my password
Instagram should give you back access after you changed your password.
They haven’t , happened almost a week ago and still can’t hash tag or caption my photos , I still can like other peoples photos but like a say when it comes to uploading a photo with a caption or hash tags they don’t show :/
I got an email last week on Monday from Instagram telling me to change my password because it suspected suspicious activities. I changed my password and after that I tried to reply to comments on my pictures but It tells me I have been temporarily banned from using the comment option and that this block will end this Monday. Well it is Monday now and I still can’t comment. What will I do. Am getting worried and this is my business account.
Try to wait until tomorrow, the Americans are not waking up yet. Maybe the server is using US time. Let me know what happens.
I just got liking banned, this is the third time, last time i was blocked from liking for over 12 hours, i’m kinda scared they will ban me eventually, is that possible?
If you knew you could get banned doing what you were doing, why did you do it again?! Please read the article again and try to follow the guidelines next time.
sir is it possible for me to open my account when my nstagram and facebook are not connected and instagram doesnt send the reset password to my email? and by the way i am entering the correct password but it says it incorrect.
Did you use a real email address when you first register to Instagram?
You really need to get access to that email for your reset password email, because this is the only way to do it.
I think I found the solution! I was getting the action blocked message and so I went in and confirmed my email then changed my bio a little and was immediately able to like pictures again once I exited out of safari and went back to the app!
Thanks for this! I will add this solution to the article!
I have been banned for a week now, and I did notify them with the tell us button. Nothing has happened, it’s so frustrating when u cannot like, comment nor follow people back. To top it off, I don’t even know what I did wrong. Maybe liked so many pictures.
Try this. Login and change your bio a bit, and then try to like something.
Morning Chris, ( my life server?)
Indeed she is back again. Been carried away when u get free days at hand! I wasn’t so sure of Wat was on my screen yesterday when it appear so Wat I did left Ig till this morning but unfortunately after three likes they says; it looks like am misusing the features by going to fast that I have been temproary blocked ??ok I agreed they must be Pitte truth in it . After going through one or two advice u gave above, do u mean one can do other things apart from liking & how long should I wait or I can change my bio immediately & get on Ig again? Wat should I do like I always says the urge has still not wear out just few followers to hit the truthful 10k instead of the other 20k if u recall Wat am talking about ! Thanks once more Chris ! ??
Yup, you have to be careful with that trigger finger indeed. Yes you should be able to do other things apart from the functionality that you are blocked. In anyway Instagram will give you a tell-tale if you can’t do something. You can try to change your bio, and normally it works immediately.
Hoi Chris,
I said it over & over u are my gin in a bottle!??. Well promising those fingers willnt do some silly things is understatement, dough am going to be pitte careful ??
I’m going through this same exact problem!! How did you fix it?? And if you didn’t how long were you blocked??
Brook Brook! Pls don’t mind me am always happy coming back to Chris forum?, well Brook I will advice u to phrase your issue directly to Chris the life server??, cos dear I can’t recall how long I waited but what I will say to u, it worth the waiting & I stayed off Ig more than enough days before I started with my trigging fingers?Ahaha!
Success Brook.
U are in the right place cos anything tip or advice from Chris is the best advices to we all in the dog holes. Especially myself, cos when I start o can’t stop .
Cheers !
ive done all this it says a link in my bio goes against community guidelines but when I try to change my bio it says the action is blocked so I cant fix the problem I’m blocked for and they wont respond to tell us or emails
Wait for a couple of days and try again.
I am not able to follow anyone on instagram. Help me.
Try to edit your bio and try again. If it doesn’t work then you just have to wait.
The same exact thing happened to me as what happened to another user here. Instagram said there was suspicious activity and made me change my password. And after I did that… It is now saying that I’m blocked from leaving comments until next Wednesday. I can’t even put captions on my own photos. This is so strange! What is going on??? I hit the tell us button, but haven’t gotten a reply yet.
Have you tried to edit your bio?
I used the “tell us” bottom and the link you provided, as well as changing my bio. Still not working and I have not heard back from IG.
Same here a ton of us on IG and the number keeps doubling who
Is effected .. We can post and “like” but no words ..
I know. Just try to follow the guidelines and you should be fine.
Stop bullshit with your guidelines, since instagram is from facebook it is horrible
Nobody is forcing you to use it. And Instagram is not from Facebook, it was bought by them. I agree there a couple of crap thing about it, no doubt. That’s why we are sharing what we know here.
I can’t like comment or follow anyone I can receive followers and likes it’s been a week now
it happened after I tried posted a picture and the Internet was really slow so I turned my phone off and then someone suggested deleting the app then I forgot my password and I was able post the picture but I haven’t been able do anything else. I’ve tried “tell us” when the action blocked pops up, I’ve deactivated my account, I’ve changed my email and password and nothing and no responses from Instagram
Try to change your bio.
I was blocked earlier this week for 24 hours, now 1 WEEK! I believe my only contribution was tagging friends (people I follow) to small giveaways. They are usually for handmade items or ship credits (I’m in the small business world). It states to enter tag a friend who might like to enter, each comment is a separate entry. So obviously, the more comments, the more likely to win. But is the block the result of tag games?
The problem is how many tagging you do at one time. It doesn’t matter if it’s in separate comment, if you tag 100 friends in 5 minutes, you will definitely get banned.
Just do every action in moderation, observe the limit, do not act like spammers, that’s the key.
Hi Chris, i reset my Instagram password and i have received the email notifying me that my password has been changed but by mistake i have clicked on the link at the end of the email which says that;”If you didn’t create an Instagram account using this email address, let us know here’ which took me to my account and removed my email. Now i tried to reset my password but i don receive the rest email anymore. Help centre was helpless. please advise me
Ups! Have you tried to use the form which I linked in this article?
Instagram reset my password to secure my account, I followed the instructions to reset my password, but I am not receiving the password reset email from Instagram (I am sure my email is correct and tried everything). I can’t login for 6 days now. It is very frustrating as it is my business account and I am so worried I will lose it.
Have you tried to use the form I linked in this article?
Yes, I did, but I am not receiving any response either. No surprise.
I know dozens of people blocked who have tried using that and not a single response or correction. Don’t waste your time.
I was blocked one morning after not being on my phone all night … I am very active on my account & I went to comment & get blocked for 1 & a half weeks!!
Instagram is a strange beast indeed. What did you do to lift the block?
Thanks for the changing bio tip. Worked a treat. Can now like and comment on Instagram after a very frustrating few weeks.
Glad I could help!
Yaay!! I think I have solution. I got temporarily banned from instagram then I visited this page,read a few comments..Then later on I changed logged out and logged in again,changed my bio and now I can like pictures
Glad we can help 🙂
Hi, my account is disabled since 5 days saying that I would pretend to be someone else wich is not true. Someone reported me and they deactivated my account! How is that even possible? I’ve filled out the form with my info and id pic have send so many emails also to the help center but NOBODY answers me nothing. I don’t know what to do anymore had my account since 3 years
Unfortunately you just have to wait.
Take responsibility Instagram. Your half the problem too
I’m in Instagram jail since last Friday until this coming Monday. I was trying to win a dognid tag in one of those “tag as many people as you can” contests… Then somehow earned an extended stay attempting to respond to a comment on someone else’s photo that I was tagged in while I was already blocked (trying to see if it had ended early) I tried changing my bio and it didn’t help. I’ve been reporting numerous times a day with no outcome. @sinerianmischief
Next time please don’t tag too many too soon. As for the ban, you just have to wait unfortunately. As I mentioned in my post, it could take up to 4 weeks.
well thats fucking great since im here to support an artist i know and get updates from a few others i like q-p but of course i have to post photos (which is fun with social anxiety and add ptsd and freaking aspergers )
Hello Chris,
I run @Goldilocksandthewolf on Instagram. I wanted to thank you for such a long in depth article about the recent update. I filled out the linked forum you shared in hopes my account will be fixed. I was banned four days ago completely out of the blue. I update my APP, tried to boot up and was kicked from Instagram. It forced me to change my password and then I was able to relogin. Several hours later (after not being on IG since the update, didn’t comment anywhere, post anything, etc) I logged on to share a photo and was met with an error message. It completely disabled my ability to post captions and comments until Sunday. I am unsure why I have been banned as I didn’t do anything on Instagram listed above and am wondering if the update itself is bugged? I have been on Instagram for over 3 years with no issues. Thank you, Amanda.
Have you tried to edit your bio?
Yes I have. I tried that multiple times as well as uninstalling and wiping the app- no luck unfortunately.
Was blocked from commenting after I received a like, i then liked a picture on the persons page and commented follow for follow as I get many people who follow me and when I follow them in return they often drop me as they only followed considering I would do the same so after I posted like for like I received a box that said something like you are attempting to use abusive behavior and if you feel you revived this in error click here which I did as it is only logical to try to establish a repair w someone whom is obviously looking at my page and liking posts I was redirected and after filling out the form i was unable to return to Instagram or send my message via the send link it said u are not connected to the server, I had to send it via a box in the top right corner of my screen which went through safari via iPhone then I could not get into my account I had to login through safari change my password and choose enter through app to get back into my account when I attempted to comment again I received a prompt that said something to the effect due to your previous abusive behavior your account has been blocked for 23 hours this is nuts people spend hours working on their page and on a whim can lose all their hard work and it’s almost impossible to contact them anyways Seasons Greetings wanted to share
Thanks for sharing your experience, it will really benefit all of us. Did you get your account back by the way?
Thank you for an informative page! I got blocked from commenting I had no idea there was a limit. You might have saved me from eventually getting banned
I just wonder, I was an very active user but now I don’t feel for using instagram anymore, it seems to me that they stop people from interacting to get rid of the bots. They should have a “prove you’re not a robot” feature instead…anyway thanks a lot <3
Don’t feel like that, just be considerable when you are commenting and liking, that’s all. No need to comment on everything for everybody, or like on everything on your feed. It’s actually a good practice to put some restrain to our action, because then when we do it it would mean something.
I didn’t know this but when I tried to get on IG it automatically logged saying I need to reset my password and when I do reset it it says that your password or username is wrong
Did you put it a new password when you reset?
I did via logging in through the Internet and changing my password 🙂
How long it will take to remove the block of following others ?how it can be eliminated?
As I mentioned in my post, it can take up to 4 weeks to lift the ban and there is nothing you can do about it. You just have to try every day.
My comments have been blocked for something like a week, I guess because I commented to much stuff. I just saw that on their notice, they wrote they would unblock me in 19 hours
Good luck
Says I got blocked because I unfollowed too many people. I unfollowed around 1000 but I can still post and like and comment. How long should I wait until I can unfollow more people? Will I get disabled?
Wow, that’s a lot of unfollowings! Well, as I have mentioned here, it could take as long as 4 weeks. Will you get disabled? unlikely.
Hi. I got temporary blocked and I can’t Follow anyone anymore. I got blocked because I did a massive following, about 200 follows and 200 unfollows per hour. I did this for a week aprox. Now I’m ok I’m not blocked anymore, but I want to still do this to gain followers. What’s your recomendation?? Regards
Follow the rules the you’ll be fine. There is no way escaping it.
Daniel, i’m dealing with the same problem. I get unblocked after 24 hours but blocked again after following about 20 people in one hour.
What’s going on with you? Any luck figuring out a way to keep growing your account?
I’ve apparently been “blocked” by Instagram for a month and changing my bio really worked!! Thank you!!
Glad I could help!
? I’m unable to comment or tag people on any pictures! Instagram will automatically block my comment for whatever reason and it’s been happening for a couple days now…I only ever comment and tag one person on maybe 5-7 pictures or so…so annoying
Just wait for a couple of days and try again.
Omg thanks for writing all this as I was BANNED from commenting on instagram as I used way too many emojis…
(I LOVE EMOJIS BTW.. SOZ I CAN’T HELP USING THEM?)
Anyway, I kept on using them and got banned for lyfe and I assure you that I do not own a spam account and I do not post abusive content. My real question is that when will the ban be over as it doesn’t say anything like ^it’s going to expire in 24 hours^ or something like that… Please let me know ASAP ???
As I mentioned on the post, it could take from 4 hours to 4 weeks.
Lol sorry… Aren’t I stupid
I was recently blocked by instagram from commenting on official accounts but I can post comment on some photos of ordinary users. This is ridiculous!!
Thanks for this article Chris. It’s very informative.
I’ve had my account for about one year. Got blocked recently on following others. I probably followed 20-25 people manually in one hour and boom blocked for 24 hours. This is happening everyday. I feel that my hourly follow # is even less than 20 now and I still get blocked.
I “feel” that it’s under their radar and will continue to get scrutinized. Should I create a new one? Looking to promote my podcast through IG.
What do you recommend?
My recommendation is to ease up with your following. This is all we can do I’m afraid. Even you create a new one but your behaviour is still the same as the old one, you will get banned again.
Thank you Chris.
Hi shaz, have you had any luck with your IG? The same this recently happened to me. I was able to follow/unfollow 200 every hour. I did this for a week and a half straight. Now I get blocked for 24 hours for just following less than 20 people. Did it ever end up increasing for you?
Thank you for this article it was very helpful to find out exactly what was going on. Is there a reason why instagram is refusing to contact me? Ive been trying to contact them for hours both with report a problem and then when it pops up when I try to comment on my own or others photos, the “tell us” button. Im just frustrated because its telling me i’ll be unblocked in a week. My instagram helps me promote my business so im unsure of what to do at this point. Like I said ive contacted instagram, ive changed my bio and even confirmed my email. Ive also changed my password twice.
Believe me if Instagram support were that helpful, I wouldn’t had written this post. I joined Instagram almost since the beginning, and if there is one thing that is constant is its atrociously bad customer support. Let’s just say it’s better not to think about it because we will end up having high blood pressure.
So, on that light, just don’t think about why they haven’t contacted you back because it’s just their nature. Furthermore, I suggest for you not to spend anymore time and energy trying to contact them, because the chance that they would is worst than our chance to fly to the moon.
So what to do? Just forget about it, and bear with your ‘punishment’. Hopefully your account will be out of the ban very soon.
My Instagram won’t let me comment on pictures it says my comment has been blocked, I deleted my old Instagram and decided to make a new one because I had people on my old one that were too nosey, how would I be able to use my account again?
You just have to wait until Instagram lifts the ban. It could take from 4 hours to 4 weeks.
Hello, I was gone for the whole day yesterday and I wanted to post a picture with a quote (not mine, but quoted) and I receive a box that says I’ve been suspended from commenting/captioning pictures because it was marked as abusive..
Do you think the accusation is true? Do you want to share the link to your post here so we can have a look?
I can’t post a photo on my account? I’ve tried in three seperate devices! I’ve changed my password and bio, and confirmed all my phone numbers and emails etc…..
You might just need to wait until the ban is lifted. In the meantime try to like and post comments so that you appear to be active.
Hi Chris, how long can take the ban from following people?
As I mentioned in the article, a ban can take from 4 hours to 4 weeks.
Thank you for your answer. It maybe be new for you too but im not banned anymore! It only took like 2 hours.
Congratulations! You are one of the lucky ones! Did you have to do anything? Did Instagram tell you anything?
No i didnt get any warning, suddenly i couldnt follow anymore. I followed too fast (i had to wait 2 more minutes i guess). I kept trying and after 2 hours it worked again! (Sorry for my grammar, im from the netherlands).
Among the sites that provide help for the comment blocked problem, I think this site provide the most useful answer. Thanx.
Thanks very much. Glad I could help.
I announced a giveaway 2 weeks ago and when I checked the comments they were more than 3000 and am not able to see them all??why it’s not loading all comments????
Have you tried using the Web (instagram.com)?
I just wanted to make a new account,got another email, a username etc, then i think it didnt accept my picture or something? which was completely fine…it was just a white chocolate marshmallow with a cute face. …? or was it anything else they blocked me for…i mean i couldnt even do anything at all. do u get blocked using a password double? i dont think so hence it can happen randomly. im pretty sure it didnt want to accept my picture, i didnt pay much attentio to the message hence it was ridiculous..
Are you still blocked now?
Hii.I made business acc on IG n start following people . I got that warning n I click tell us.. So within an hour I can follow people again or not? Thank before
Why don’t you try?
I didn’t try it yet. Just afraid that my account will be blocked permanently..
If u said so I will try
No it won’t. How else would you know if your ban has been lifted if not by trying it out?
Thanks for ur advice its really helpful
I’hv been into the dog house for 2 times for following 2500 people in one day …. I got unblocked after almost 2 weeks
Consider yourself lucky.
I’ve been blocked for liking too many photos. It’s the second time that has happened. First time I sent them a message on “tell us” and they unblocked me overnight. This time I’m still waiting. How do you know how long you’ll be blocked for?
You don’t.
Hello. I have motivational page and 29.5k followers. I was banned yesterday totally. I’ll be honest. I was following many people and sometimes comment others pages to get more followers. Could you please tell me how long could it take. How to make it shorter? Or will I get my account back at all? It was a lot of work and I don’t want to lose it. I contacted them and sent them the email with my photo but they still didn’t reply. Thank you for your answer.
As you can read on my block it could take from 4 hours to 4 weeks to get your account back. I don’t other way to make it quicker apart from what I’ve written in my post.
Thank you. And when my account isn’t deleted but just disabled does it mean I’ll get it back?
Just to be clear, your account is NOT disabled, you are merely restricted to do some of the actions. You should get these abilities back soon.
No it is disabled. I can´t login to my account. They blocked me an access.
I have an Instagram for about 3 months. Weirdest thing is I got blocked from following people and I don’t quite understand how despite reading the guidelines. I have almost 10k followers that are legit(I’m in the modeling industry and acting), however I am only following 97 which are my girlfriend, her family, and people I worked with before. It said I was misusing the feature of following people which makes no sense considering I barely follow people. I have 61 posts and post about every 3 days usually. I’m aware there is a 7500 following limit which I am nowhere close to hitting and the most I ever followed was 5 in one day. Support doesn’t help so I’m left confused and I can’t follow anyone at all. And yes I do have a complete bio I change a bit every few weeks. Oh and I can still like, comment, and people can still follow me normally. Its been past a week they said they would stop blocking me now.
Unfortunately some of the decisions don’t make sense, it’s because the one that made the decision is a ‘machine’ and not a real human being.
Hello Chris! Just wanted to share my experience with you guys. I got banned this afternoon after liking over 300 to 500 pictures, I really had no clue that IG has a limit per hour. Anyway, I explained that to IG via the tell us button and they unblocked me from liking within 1 hour. Now I’m able to like, but I won’t exceed the limit again! So maybe just try to explain to IG like I did that you had no idea that what you were doing was “wrong”. Bye guys 🙂
That’s cool Ben! Thanks for sharing it here!
For how many days I will get blocked by instagram if I followed and unfollowed a lot of people in a short gap of time.
If you had read my post you would had noticed that it could take from 4 hours to 4 weeks for the ban to be lifted.
Hey when I like pictures I’m getting action blocked
So what should I right in tell us
Just tell them what exactly you did.
i used an app called get followers now iv been temporarily blocked how long does it take to be unblocked?
If you have read the post you would know the answer.
I dont know why they have blocked me.i liked too many pics around 30 or 40 on my app.it was ok.but my friend signed out from my account and tried to create new account.he was unable too.then i tried to login from my account it was disabled.i still dont know the reason.i havent spammed anything.thing is instagram works on browser but not on application.i have mailed them twice regarding it.i havent given any warning regarding any suspicious behaviour.will it get it back on application?
When you say ‘disabled’ what error message did you get?
And btwy, is your caps lock on your keyboard broken or something?
Well they say i violated the terms and conditions.which i have no idea off.
Hi Chris
I created my account on instagram yesterday.
I followed some accounts like 20 accounts or so and then I commented on a picture with a heart symbol like this- ‘<3'
and this was my first comment on instagram so it was not like I commented several times and when I tried to comment on other picture they told me that comments has been blocked for some community safety reasons. So, now I know the reason was the emoji but I certainly didn't know this yesterday when I joined. Can you tell me how long would it take to get my comments unblocked? This is really frustrating you know I haven't seen such policy anywhere and I am new here. It will be 24 hour after an hour that my comments has been blocked. How long should I wait or what exactly should I do?
Hi Tanvi,
Sorry that you had a bad experience on the day one, such a nature of paranoid Instagram. I have a question, have you actually post anything before you followed or liked yesterday?
The reason I asked this is because I don’t believe it’s the content of your comment that got you banned, but rather it’s your general scenario.
Chris, I don’t think that I did posted anything before that. I might have liked one or three pictures before that comment. It was my first comment on instagram and I got 25 followers and I followed 20 people (lets say) but not more than that before commenting – ‘<3'
Now its been more than 24 hours Chris! 🙁
I think my comments are permanently banned on instagram! :/
Please tell me that I am wrong and it will get resolved soon.
I just got temporarily blocked for posting captions and hashtag… i was updating my photos’ hashtag and the message popped up after i’ve worked on my 50th photos… 🙁
That’s new. I guess you just have to slow down with Instagram.
Indeed! Wasn’t expecting this cos I’m not actually uploading new photos or leaving comment or liking/following ppl. Just editing too much seems a problem too. Caption function is back, but no hashtag allowed in the caption in the meantime. Hashtags in comment is ok tho.
Oh pls ignore my previous reply. I’m actually not allowed to edit the caption only! This is the function they temporarily blocked.
Hi,
I mistanely over went the following per hour limit and they have blocked me from following. I can comment like and upload pics but can’t follow anyone.
It’s been over 48 hours and they still haven’t lifted it. It’s my legit account.
Would the form above help?
Also is there anyway to know for how much time they have banned me? No message appears when I try to follow it just goes back to the original button after a couple of seconds of requested button.
Should I contact them or wait it out.
Try the form, some people found it useful, others not so much. Otherwise just keep trying every day. No, there is no way to know when the ban will be lifted.
Submitted the form. Any usual timeframe during which they respond to those requests?
Hi,
Just wanted to ask is there any turnaround time in which the Instagram guys reply on average, if at all.
Also, its since been almost 4 days and still having the ban. Does it last more then 1 week also?
Also, if I just for the sake of finding out whether I have been unbanned, follow a single user to tesf, would it prolong the duration of the ban.
Thank you in advance for the insights.
whats up
Nothing. You?
Hi cris, i have banned by instagram then I contact your link..they answered that i need to send my real pic and num that they give to me..
I have send..but nothing change
You just have to wait.
I was blocked from commenting immediately after deleting a couple of hundred photos from my own gallery.
Hi Chris,
I can comment on my post, my friends post but cannot comment on other things. I just want to know whether such blocks are permanent or it will last for sometime like few weeks may be. Because if its permanent then I won’t waste my time using Instagram or if it is just temporary thing then I am patient enough to wait for the unblock. Can you tell me the maximum number of days I have to wait or should I just assume it as a permanent block?
Please reply Chris. Since I am no more interested in knowing the reason behind it. Whatever the reasons being if I gets unblock then I would make sure that I should not be using emoji’s in the comments next time. But just answer my this question!
Thank you.
It’s not a permanent block, if you read my post carefully you would know the time this ban usually going on. Have you used the link I provided in the post?
Btwy, I don’t think it’s the emoji. I use emoji all the time and never been blocked, it must be some other things that you did, or combinations of things.
What do u mean bout edit profil.. follow 500 people then edit username, like that?
Yes Chris I have reported on the link which you have mentioned in your blog. Actually I am new on instagram and that is the reason I’m pretty sure what exactly I did the day before yesterday. I just commented with the emoji and then I was trying to wish Liam Happy birthday with a smiling emoji and then I was told that my comments are blocked. By then I liked only two picture, had 25 followers and followed 20 people. Trust me apart from these I didn’t do anything otherwise I would have told you because even I wanted to know the reason behind this to be careful in future.
Glad to know that this is not permanent. I read your blog but I just wanted to confirm from you if it is in my case permanent since I got blocked the same day I created my account.
Instagram is a fricking dictator ship! They will ban you for any stupid reason. Liking to many pics is one now?
It’s been like that for a while. Anything that is excessive is forbidden.
Well i finally got it back.
Those who are getting problem in login with error account being disabled and they could login on browser.
Your account is not deactivated in this case.You just need to factory reset.
What i did was my account qas disabled.i went onto open instagram on browser instead of app.It was working.Then i did factory reset and it worked.
I did the sending photo part along with code too but they just replied back with the change password thing which i did and still it was disabled.
So if anyone is having problem getting login and whose account is not getting open on android instagram application.You just need to factory reset.that will work.
Thanks for the tip!
Hi,
Just wanted to ask is there any turnaround time in which the Instagram guys reply on average, if at all.
Also, its since been almost 4 days and still having the ban. Does it last more then 1 week also?
Also, if I just for the sake of finding out whether I have been unbanned, follow a single user to tesf, would it prolong the duration of the ban.
Thank you in advance for the insights.
Great posting! Ok so here is my issue … I opened an IG account, and from time to time I add pictures of beautiful women, beaches, cars, and general guy stuff that I like BUT my account is kept as Private because most of the pics of women are topless or nude. I am the ONLY one that can see my blog but I have now had two accounts deleted by IG, and now when trying to set up a new account I am getting a message that says “Sign Up Blocked. Sorry, you can’t create a new account right now.”
You know that posting nude pictures is against the community guidelines, right? That’s why your accounts got deleted.
Did you open the account using the same email address?
I have a similar issue. My account got banned cause of a similar thing and I was automatically signed out of Instagram. But right afterwards I was blocked from creating new accounts. It keeps telling me I “cannot create a new account right now.” Did it save some data onto my phone that prevents me from creating new accounts on my phone? How long does this last or is it permanent? I did not open the account using the same email address and actually opened it with multiple new email addresses and it still didnt work.
As far as I know, you can only open a limited amount of accounts from ‘the same phone’. Try to borrow someone else phone, and do it from there.
You probably can do it again if you do a clean install of your OS.
Hi guys,
I just want to inform you that my comments were blocked by instagram 5 days back.
I did edit my bio three times in between. So, today I was trying to comment again and then insta told me that it will take 7 more hours to unblock my comments.
I hope what they said is true. I personally feel that editing my bio may have some role to play as well.
I would suggest all the people whose comments are unblocked to wait patiently and try to edit your bio couple of times, completely in different words. This might help you. If my comments gets unblock really then I will update you all.
Thanks Chris for your advises 🙂
How long does it take if you bloked?
From 4 hours to 4 weeks, as I wrote on my post.
There are many different kinds of bans/blocks, and they affect users in different ways. It is too bad Instagram doesn’t officially post its hourly limits on likes/comments /follows/unfollows like Twitter does, or even give useful error messages like “You have exceeded the limits on likes per hour.
Please wait and try again later.” From what I’ve gathered so far, an hourly exceed limit like comments or likes will pass on it’s own once that sliding hour has passed – no need to submit the form to IG. Newer accounts may have lower limits than older accounts. Other blocks will take longer to unblock, like new accounts trying to comment on accounts with over 50K followers. I have had a new account for just over a week and cannot yet comment on large accounts. I can like and follow, but not comment. Go figure. I have never received any answers from IG help/support on this issue. I literally keep a piece of paper next to me while I am on IG and mark down every single comment to make sure I do not exceed the 40/hour. I also keep very detailed records of my follows/unfollows so as not to exceed the hourly limits. In my older account I do not have to worry about these limits or at least, I have never hit any. It just is terribly frustrating that IG doesn’t post them or give you accurate messages as feedback. Or a timeline for your block.
I agree it’s frustrating, my only consolation is that all of these are for the sake of us having a nicer experience with Instagram.
Hey Chris, I think due to following and unfollowing people my follow button has gotten stuck…? And now I can’t seem to click to follow anyone . Help please ? When will it return to normal again ?
Hi. I can’t add followers for 2 days now. I didn’t get a blocked or banned notification. I can still unfollow and like photos. What could be wrong with my account? Anyone have an idea?
You’ve got following ban 🙂 Did you you follow too many people in a short time? Did you read my post about it?
Hi Chris,
Can you please let me know about this.
I was blocked from follow and unfollow for 1 week and no can unfollow but can’t follow.
In aprox how much time would the follow ban be limited if unfollow has already been lifted. It was lifted after 1 week.
Nobody really knows how much time Instagram needs to do this, so just keep trying unfortunately.
Our account seems to have been blocked from commenting. We have submitted the form and will wait. We are a new Social Network that was hoping to use Instagram to market our brand.
Honestly, We’re not sure why people would put up with these restrictions that are way too aggressive. The whole point of a ‘social’ app is to be ‘social’. Perhaps Instagram has forgotten that the users are the reason for its success.
In the mean time if you’d like a social app that isn’t so restrictive please give us a go.
We’re currently in the Apple Store as Ububbl: Social Network. We’ll be releasing other versions later this year. But would love to have your support.
I am simply trying to go through all of my photos and hashtag certain ones by my kids names. I want to make them
Their own photo books using the appropriate hashtag. So I’ve been going through and hash tagging old photos and now I’m blocked from using that feature. However they did not give me a “tell us” option just an ignore box….help!
Sorry that you get banned. The only thing I can suggest is those ones at the end of the article.
Hey! Found this trick today so no idea to what extent this works but so far so good!
If you get blocked from following or liking posts simply go to your options and connect to your facebook friends. You don’t even have to follow someone new from there. It’s been maybe 20 minutes now and the large group of likes and follows for a contest are still visible on my account. Good luck everyone!
Thanks for the tips.
Last week,my account got block, then I follow the instruction from “tell us” button. After I follow every instruction, I got an email that contains a recovery number. Beside the recovery number, the email brings an instruction to reply with attach a photo of yourself holding a hand-written copy of the code, your full name and username. It takes 5-6 days to get your account reactivated from the time you replied the email.
Maybe it could be a help for you all.
Oh, I forgot to mention, after reactivated, your post, followers, and likes are still intact. So don’t worry, you won’t lose the account or its history.
Excellent insight! Thanks for sharing, I’m going to write this on the main article so the others can benefit from it.
Just out of curiosity, what happened exactly after you click on that ‘Tell Us’ button? What questions were Instagram asking you.
I forgot the detail after clicked “Tell Us” button, but the point is you have to input your email address and username. The instruction then sent to your email after a few moment, that’s all.
My acct have been disable for months now! Have tried all possible means but no way! What can I do? My 87k account omg pls help
What happen when you try to login? Have a read at this Instagram page: https://help.instagram.com/366993040048856?sr=1&query=account%20disabled&sid=0PXIzcFl22IsXt325
Today I got message that my account has been disabled. I just realised from your article that I got disabled because I followed more than 20 people in 1 moment. Will this be permanently disabled or for period time? Because what I read from IG is, if my account is disabled, I can make new account using the same email but not with username. I tried to do so but it said my email has been taken.
Bro Ricky, kalau dibaca di tautan ini: https://help.instagram.com/366993040048856?sr=1&query=account%20disabled&sid=0PXIzcFl22IsXt325 silahkan coba login lagi dulu, terus lihat apa yang mereka bilang.
Tulisannya your account has been disabled for violating our terms bro. Ini permanen ato sementara?
Udah coba login lagi belum, sesuai dengan suggestion di Help Page itu?
sudah coba login tp tulisannya tetep sama bro
hello , I can not follow anyone on instagram , since I am waiting for a week, and remains the same .
the button turns green, but then comes back or normal.
will that was permanent ban ?
It shouldn’t be permanent. Did you try all the steps I wrote in the article?
Hi! I have a question. Suddenly a lot of rondom people add me on my account dutch_sisters. 20 people in 5 minutes or something. It is the 2time, 2 days ago it was the same story. The accounts are fake, they have only one or 2 friends en 3 picture. Can you explain it? I have around the 2500 followers and prefer real followers.. I can block them but that is a lot of work and i think a beginning without end. (Sorry for my grammar, im from the netherlands.)
For some reason I followed too many people too quickly and I got that error message saying I was following too many people too quickly under a certain period of time and I also reported some followers that was following me but their profile was questionable because they were posting lude and obscene photos with a link under their bio for sex services
Hello!
I’ve been following and unfollowing more than 20 people and less than 100 every day and every hour.
sometimes Instagram blcoked me using the temporary blocked message. after 24h i could do it again.
however, last weekend the information disappeared and when i follow/unfollow the button disappears… Even if I wait for 24h/12h no i cant follow more than 3 people!!
i have 9.444 followers and i want to reach 10K. what can i do? why is this happening? what can i do to avoid being blocked and go back to the other situation?
THANK YOU!!
Sorry, but you’ve been blocked ‘many times’ but you kept doing the same things! What did you expect!? And you are still asking why?? Why do you think?
Now the only thing you can do is just wait, consider yourself in the ‘naughty chair’, think about what you’ve done and pray that Instagram would release you from the block.
And when or if you’ve got your block lifted, please just follow the rule.
same problem but mine I don’t see my photos on my profile and the likes are not being registered. I’m about to hit 10K followers too. dangit, I should have read this article before. I follow/unfollow more than 100 in fact I think I got to a point where I can follow/unfollow 300 per day. Hopefully my account will be reinstated soon and promise I will not do that again :'(
Hey, the SAME thing happened to me. Is there any luck yet with yours after the time has passed? Or is it still only a small amount of people you can follow?
Hello Chris,
I forgot to mention, after you clicked “tell us” button you will be asked what kind of account do you have, a personal account or brand account.
If your account is for branding or sell a product, there’s brand account choice, Instagram will asks you to input legal document from your country.
If your brand is still growing or start up like mine, @hero.movie, It’s easier to choose personal account because you just need to input your email.
The rest is like what I posted before.
Thanks for the info!
i was suddenly logged out my insta and i tryed to log in but it tells me my password is wrong. i dont remember the password to the email i used so i cant reset my password. its been 3 days and i contacted insagram and reported this problem but nothing happend. what do i do now?
You really have to try to get access to your email. There should be a way to reset the email password.
i have been bloked just noe , just because of me liking some youtubers photos. i tryna like all of her photos just becouse i wanna win a contest that she has made. but im curious, i have been bloked but i can still scrolling the photos and comment on it ? is it possible for me to be unblocked ?
Eventually you will be unblocked, but no one knows how long that’s gonna take. Just try it every day. And remember not to do it again.
Hi please tell me what limits there are to mention below the photo using @? people not subscribed to me? and what will happen if I mention people in the same way on someone else’s accuate?
The limit is 5 mentions per comment. I’m not sure I understand your 2nd and 3rd questions.
sir my account has not been disabled but im asking you one thing . i use 5000 followers pro app and have gained around 200 followers and am using 1000 likes for instagram (android) but have not used it for getting likes yet just liked 50 to 60 photos from that app now and i dont want to use it any more so am i safe from getting disaled
As long as you stay in the limit you are fine.
if i stop using the apps for followers and likes am i safe
Help my Instagram was disabled for about 7 weeks now I filled applications emailed them so many times maybe a 100 times literally they disabled my page for no reason .
Which email did you try? And have you tried to use the form I linked in this article?
My account logged out automatically and got disabled and instagram not even allowing me to make a new ID and if I make it from some other device and follow someone from my Android my id gets disabled.. What to do?
Can you tell me what you did that got you banned?
I’m 15, had 7k followers and woke up this morning to my account being disabled. I did nothing of what they said my account had been deactivated for… So I followed through on “have we made a mistake”. Yet when it askes me to put my Insta name in I can’t because obviously it’s not valid because it’s been disabled….
Did it give any error message when you put in you account name?
So like… I don’t think I got banned or anything because I was literally on instagram replying to my friend and then all of a sudden it logged me out and I thought it was just some dumb glitch, until I logged back in… it had a pop up that told me instagram had changed my password for “security reasons” and that it would be sent to me via email, well it never came. I checked spam, I looked up instagram in the search bar just in case and still nothing comes up. It’s not possible that I spelled my email wrong because it’s saved to my auto correct but there is the smallest possibility that I used a different email though…? Which doesn’t make any sense because my current email is the only one I would’ve logically used… I don’t know what to do at this point because I’ve tried for a really long time on instagram to gain followers that help me with recommendations, advice, etc. When it comes to special effect makeup because that’s what I want to do for my career and now that’s all gone… I don’t know I’m just really annoyed and was wondering if anyone had some words of advice, you seem like the best bet.
Have you tried the reset password link?
HI, I got blockes after i started to use River…. They said ppeople dont get blocked using them… really annoing, i am blocked for a week.When I want to follow someone the notice comes that i am blocked to use this feature untill next sunday…
What is ‘River’? Can you tell us so the others won’t get the same problem? Thanks.
They claim ,,River is a tool+team that will help you attract the right people on Instagram and receive a REAL LOVE back on your profile” you sign up and you can quickly more people to follow you…called river on instragram
Hi Sir.Its been two days already that I have been blocked from liking.The last time I was restricted to like was just 3 to 4 hours before this present restriction.I did not like photos fast than just allowed but they blocked me several times already.Please help me get through this.Despite my explanation on the tell us button which I sent many times now,the restriction to like is not yet lifted.Thank you
Unfortunately there isn’t much you can do apart from waiting for Instagram to reinstate your like. Have you tried editing your bio?
I can’t send anymore direct messages? Any advice. Nothing from IG.
Maybe you sent too many, that’s why you got banned. Just wait for a few weeks I suppose.
For the 4th time, I’ve been blocked for 1 week from commenting or editing my captions. I have maintained moderate use of features since the first block, and have not yet determined how or why Instagram is using my account as an example to enforce unexplained authority!
I do not excessively like, comment, follow or post. My account is 2 years old with 3,500 followers – and I follow approximately 400. My only guess at this point is someone reporting my account. As my page is business oriented, there is only business and mild “meet the maker” material. Nothing inappropriate or remotely questionable.
At this point, “telling them they made a mistake” is pointless. Each block I have had to endure 1 week of no commenting or editing posts without feedback. It is clear when you look at my page I am not a spammer or bot, and I certainly don’t behave in these manners. My point is to post my content and drive sales to my website. NOTHING you describe fits my scenario. How do I counting using Instagram if I’m not doing anything wrong?
How do I continue* using Instagram if I’m not doing anything B wrong?
Hi there, I was blocked from liking posts for the second time. The first time I was only blocked for a few hours but this time it has lasted a lot longer, any ideas how much longer it will be?
I sent an online form off to say that all I was doing was scrolling and liking, and I also tried to edit my bio but nothing works to lift the ban 🙁
Nobody knows how long this will last. You just have to wait for it. Try to slow down on the likes next time.
Hi, is there a limit to unliking photos? I was hacked and the person who liked my account liked over 100 inappropriate photos so I went back to my “likes” section and tried to unlike them quickly but got a message that I was temporarily banned. How long does this “temporarily banned” last? And how many photos can i UNlike in an hour??
I would say probably the same limit as the like, combined. The ban can take up to 4 weeks.
I never got the “tell us” option and I’ve tried everything – changing my bio, uninstalling and reinstalling the app, changed my password and I’m still blocked from liking/unliking and it’s weird bc I only unliked about 50 pictures when I got the temporarily blocked message so what do I do??
Just wait and keep trying.
Am I the only person who is unable to load my notification feed .. does this mean I’ve been banned ??
That sounds like a glitch to me. Just keep trying, or reinstall the app.
Please bro ma instagram account was disabled like how many days will it take to get it back although Ma informations are vilified. And Ma account is on private like how many days will it take to get back my account… thanks
That depends on which rules you violated. So, which one?
Hi I am having a Instagram account on the name of ” RetouchingIndia ” we are a genuine Retouching studio based in New Delhi , India . you can check our website www dot retouchingindia dot com , so we were posting our retouched works along with the credits of the Photographers and the Crew , Suddenly we got logged out from our account and now not able to log in back . i received the email for hand written paper picture along with full name and the code , which has been also sent yesterday , can i please know when can this issue be sorted. I can assure you that we followed all the guidelines mentioned by instagram . Kindly help. Thanks and regards. Manpreet Ahuja
After you sent that email, it shouldn’t be taking more than a few days, I would think.
Having trouble getting blocked when I like my followers pics how long will temporarily block will move because can’t removing from my page not happy with it how can I get it back from getting unblocked ?
The block can last from 4 hours to 4 weeks
Hi there! I’m a nail artist and today I opened my Instagram account. I uploaded 103 pictures of muito clients and now it doesn’t let me upload anymore pictures. I have more than 500 clients and I was wondering how long it takes for this stupid Instagram realize I’m not a robot, nor spam. Thank you!
It’s your behaviour, i.e. uploading a crazy amount of photos in such a short time, that triggered Instagram to temporarily ban you.
The ban could take from 4 hours to 4 weeks, nobody knows, just keep trying every day. And please don’t upload like that again in the future.
how long did it take?
i have an account with almost 10,000 followers. (not bought) i was logged out of my account. we changed the password but we need to verify my account. this is the easiest step! well i just needed to put in my number and then get a code. but no code is sending! we have tried almost 10 times and nothings happening. have i been blocked from instagrAm? also i can go on the account but cant like post comment anything with out the verification popping up
The phone number must be a real one.
hi,
my account got hacked. whoever hacked it started posting inappropriate content. Wirhin a few minutes all my freinds had contact me to tell me my account was hacked. Soon after i logged in and changed my password and delete the photos. I then reported it to instagram. After that my account was disabled and i have been blocked from signing up. I have tried to contact instagram, but they always send the same reply. Dont know what to do …
What did you report and how?
i reported it to “if you think your account is hacked”. a few days later I was blocked. Since its been blocked ive reported it to “report a hacked account” and also the page that pops up when you try to sign in and it says”if you think this is a mistake let us know”. I keep getting the same email back which is you have been disabled for any of the following reasons…
You said you managed to login and change your password. Did you report if ‘before’ or ‘after’ you got your account back?
i reported it after i logged back in …because i wanted to quicky change the password to stop the photos being posted
Thanks for the info. I do have one further question. I got a 24 hour ban for over-zealous liking. I must have gone over the 350 limit for an hour. when it was over, I started liking photos again (going slow and being careful this time) but even before I reached 100 likes I got banned again, no warning or anything. Do they lower your limit every time you get a temp ban? I have been using this account for like four years, uploading nice photos almost every day without issue. I’d be pissed if I was now on some sort of black list cause I got carried away one day.
Does anybody else have any experience of lower limits after a temporary liking ban?
Thanks
Hey Hannah. I got banned once for overliking. I am in my second time and its been almost 3 days now. The crazy part is yesterday at the same time I got blocked the day before I could like 5 photos then seconds alter the block was on. The same thing happened today at the same time I tried again letting 24 hours pass. I liked maybe 5 photos then seconds later then the block is on there again. I have pictures to prove this. Its crazy. Its literally messed up. I could not like 350 photos in seconds.
Halo… I have problem, my post not showing up on hashtags search. Is this kind of ban that we are talking about? If yes, how can I fix it? Thanks.
I don’t think so. Did you add the Hashtag when you uploaded the photo, or after?
Yes, I added the hashtags. I have search the answear about the problem on the web, some says that the issue could be device problem. But Im sure that is not my issue. For your info..I managed the account with my friends with their own device, and all of them facing the same problem, the post not showing up on hashtags search. Im being paranoid, Instagram has banned my account. Yes, I admit that my account activity is a little bit break the guidelines, too much post in a day with the same caption each post, following too much people etc. But, I never get warned If they banned my account.
For example of my problem: I have my own hashtag (#theamazetesti) with total 62 post and work find when I search them for the first time (the image showed up). But suddenly a few days ago when I came back to see those hashtags again, its only show a few img (not all).
What do you think? Thanks for replying
I’m having exactly this hashtag problem too. My photos simply don’t show up in the hashtags, also not in the geotags. This happens in my brand new Instagram account only. I have other two older Instagram accounts and this problem doesn’t exist in them.
Just been unblocked how long shall wait for it to get working back to normal
It should be back to normal immediately after your ban has been lifted.
Hi Chris. Someone has been stealing my photos from Tumblr and using it on an existing account that has lasted two years! I created three IGS to report them. Yet, nothing happens and I am the one that gets shut down. When I asks me to upload a photo of my license, I try to but it does let me “choose file”. I have tried on mobile, pc, ipad… there is NO solutions. I am so upset that I don’t have the solution to prove this is actually ME. Any tips?
Hi Lilia,
Sorry for your bad experience. Instagram has never been the best company for support. Try to email them here: Instagram at support dot instagram dot com.
please tell me that why instagram don’t let me log in when i try to reset my password they say “sorry this user in not active” what should i do ? m i permanently banned or banned for hours ?
waiting for your reply i be very thankful if u help me
Is it true what it says, that you haven’t been active?
My problem is that I got hacked. Someone changed my profile pic and then proceeded to like hundreds and hundreds of random photos. I got my account back, changed my password and am now in the process of un-liking all of those photos (one at a time which is really annoying) After un-liking a couple hundred in just a few minutes, Instagram blocked me from un-liking any more. I’m just trying to clean up a mess that someone else made, and these buttholes keep blocking me from doing it. I think after I get done un-liking everything, I’m going to get rid of my account. This had turned into a huge pain in the ass. If Instagram is really that easy to hack, then I’m done with it.
It’s not Instagram that is hacked, it was you. Usually the hacker managed to hack account by doing some phishing or social engineering. That’s why we need to be very vigilant.
As you’ve read in this article, there are limits on doing things in Instagram, so just calm down and slow down with your unliking, you’ll get there eventually, you just need to do it slower to avoid the ban.
Hello! I’ve been using ig for almost 1,5 yr now. OK, I got banned a couple of times for liking too many photos (ban never took more than 12 hrs), but today… Well, my first attempt to like anything ended up with an “action blocked” msg. Reported it three times so far – no reaction. I really don’t know what is my mistake this time #annoying
Just keep trying. You’ll get there eventually.
I deactivated my account yesterday but now i just cant login back.. is my account deleted or what? need help!
You should be able to just log back in. What message did you get?
Hi – I’ve gotten banned three times the last three days for either liking too much or too fast. The first time I was liking a bunch of photos from friends and I guess I went over my quota (which I had no idea about). The next day (after 24 hours) I liked a few photos and then got another bad for liking too fast. Today, I was seriously going so slow and was nowhere close to the 350 likes per hour and again I got blocked. Why is this? Also, I tried changing my password, changing my bio, deleting and reinstalling Instagram to no avail 🙁
Just try to take a break on liking. Do post some photos and maybe comments in some. Have a 24/48 hour break and try again.
I’ve been blocked from following people on Instagram. I’m not receiving a temporary block notice, it’s just that when I press follow it automatically unfollows. It has been like this for 5 days. Earlier today, I tried again and it let me follow people. I followed around 15 users in the space of about 90 minutes with no problems. I waited about 2 hours and tried to follow one person and it went back to automatically unfollowing. So frustrating…not sure why it’s blocked me again when I haven’t violated any terms??
Try to wait even longer. Who knows what is in the mind of Instagram.
Idk what happened but apparently I can’t post. 🙁 i think they may have made me stop posting. ;-; help
Can you still like or comment?
hey! when i started my instagram i used this app megafollow where you earn coins for followers now this is not aloud am i right? my instagram is now pretty big even tho i have not been using the app for a while should i be ok? haha
Soon that type of app will not be allowed. But as long as you are not using it you should be ok.
sweet thanks hope not haha so it was just the bots they are really chasing at the moment?
just worried it might get deleted now even tho the app hasn’t been used in so so long
When i post a picture Instagram deletes it immediately. I think I posted too many pics too fast, how long will I have to wait to be able to post again?
Nobody knows, but it could be as long as 4 weeks. Just try it every day.
My account constantly gets blocked but I’m a new person and was commenting a lot. When they blocked me it was for 24 hours but I checked again and it said 6 hours left, so I tried. Bam!!! Another 24 hour penalty slapped on my account. This sucks.
It says 6 hours left, why couldn’t you wait? Just be patience and follow the rules!
Why is it that whenever I sign up using my tablet and iphone it appears “Sorry, you can’t sign up an account right now” Why? What can I do?
How many accounts have you registered on that device? There is a limit on how many each device can register.
My instagram account is from 2012. I had few pics from that time that I deleted and my oldest pic now is from 4 weeks. After I did this I cant comment on pics with more then 50k followers! Any way to fix this ?
You need to post more pics. Act like regular Instagram user.
Ive posted about 50 pics for the last month.
They have disabled my account for no reason and this is getting really frustrating. Damn I lost all my f*cking work for nothing. The funny thing is that it happened right after I reported a fake account that was stealing another user’s photos. Obviously that account is still active as we speak and this makes me angry. I tried every means of comunication to reach them but still nothing. I even sent them a f*cking mugshot they asked me in an automated email for support! A mugshot with a code an everything.. I was like really? Wtf is this but I need that account so I sent it to them and still nothing. To all the people out there having these kinds of problems. Don’t bother losing your time trying to get it back cause they don’t give a f*ck about you. That’s the truth! All they care about is making money by showing you ads that you (maybe) don’t want to see. And losing one account doesn’t change sh*t for them. The thing that they’re forgetting is that if it wasn’t for us, the users, they wouldn’t be sh*t. Less that sh*t but they still don’t give a f*ck cause their strategy is working. No support unless you are talking money, advertising on their platform and stuff. Just like Facebook.
Amen brother! To be honest, we knew this even before they got acquired by FB, I experienced it first hand. Just perseverance, and hopefully you will get your account back. Good luck.
Hi Chris, I need your advice. 5 Days ago I set my account temporarily disabled and hours later I logged in to reactivate it. I found that some portrait and landscape photos that I posted changed to the square ones. Almost a week that those error photos have not been yet recovered to the original aspect. Have you ever experienced this kind of thing? What happened and how to fix it?
Hmm, no I haven’t heard something like that before. It looks to me that there is a bug in Instagram side, especially if it happened only selectively (and not to all). Unfortunately I don’t how to fix that, only Instagram could. Have you tried to report it through the form I link in this post?
Yes, I have reported them already. Actually I kept reporting this problem from mobile application so many times but there’s no any response at all. Hope they give me some response this time.
Thanks for the read, i found the soultion in the article. You know what the funny thing is? A few times i had few hour bans for liking & following too much, but when i run an automation app and it does, like, three times more actions – it’s ok! No bans. restrictions, nothing! How the hell is that? Human behavior is less natural than a bot’s? i use Zengram btw
instagram has temporarily blocked me because i had followed and unfollowed many people so how to unblock it…
Did you read my article until the end?
I created a new account and can do everything except post comments on other people’s posts.
Have you activated your account? Instagram should’ve sent you email activation where you need to click on a link.
I was blocked from signing up
How many account have you registered already using the same device?
Sir. I have a page in Instagram which is made to post self composed quotes. So it’s obvious that I have to increase my followers list. And I was just doing that but suddenly it showed the block thing. I don’t know why such action is taken. I mean like no one will be disappointed if am sending follow request. It’s their decision they have to accept it or not. Plus my page doesn’t have such posts which shouldn’t be given. It’s a clean one. So please check to my issue soon
Did you read my post? You can find most of the reasons why someone can be blocked. Do you think you can be violating one of these reasons?
my IG is disabled from violating I never violated and I filled out the form but I still cant log in ans ny account is not viewable from my friends account. Does that mean it may be deleted forever? I hope not. I filled the form out twice so im just waiting for a reply…
Unfortunately you just have to wait.
Just want to say “Thank you, Chris” for this blog. I read it through, and all the posts and answers as well.
I have a two week old ‘normal’ non-busniness account, but using IG as normally as I can, with hopes of linking any followers to a future “buy my art” kind of website. So far my aim has been to be polite, be encouraging to other artists, who are both younger and not as good at art as I think I am, as well as say encouraging words to those artists much better than myself.
On my second day of IG I was banned for 24 hours fo trying to comment “very nice pic”. It was laughable, and my husband joked with me for being “an abusive trouble-maker” lol. Anyways, I do wish there was somewhere that stated how many posts/likes/comments are within reason to IG, or whether you are allowed more when you are an older account than when you are new.
Someone suggested that it was possible to be able to post a comment on a smaller account even if you are diallowed to post a comment on an account with a larger following. This happened to me today. . Yesterday I was being polite to answer nice likes and comments to me by saying “Thank you” back at them, and I think I made 57 comments in several hours. So today, I have received 2 warning/disallows as if they were spam or abusive, but as I said, was allowed to post a comment anyways to a smaller account. . Yes, I will be careful and slow down my comments and try to be less enthusiastic about being polite back to comments, and that’s too bad. But thank you for your blog and help and people’s suggestions. You are very patient with peeps that have not read your many previous statements. I have bookmarked this page in case I need to remind myself of your advice. I think I will create a picture poster to post on IG that says: “If I have not answered your comment it is because IG does not allow us to Thank Everyone that is nice to us, and If I am not here for a few days, it is because I may have been banned for commenting something polite, too many times.”
I would like to add, that I just re-read Instagram’s Guidelines, and it does briefly mention they do not like or allow “repetative” comments or actions. So, saying the same thing, even “Thank you.” or “Nice pic” etc, too many times in an hour a day, or whatever, or just posting too many photos, or just commenting and Not Posting photos, or just Liking, and Not Posting Comments or Photos, can all be understood by Instagram as “Spam” or potential spam, in some way, and get you a warning, or worse, banned for a time.
I just read on another page, that Instagram only allows up to 400 total actions from or on an account in 24 hours. That seems like a lot, and I don’t think I’ve ever been able to post that much, for sure, but, anyways. Too much of anything, is too much altogether, is what they mean.
Yes this is correct. I’m going to add some of these in my post.
Bytheway, I’ve never heard about warnings, how do they look like?
Hi, Chris. By getting a “warning” from Instagram, I meant an “Action Blocked” sort of warning. I It’s only ever appeared when I was trying to comment some encouraging phrase to someone’s photo. It will not post my comment, and it would say something like “Action Blocked’ What you are trying to post has already been posted by many other users and therefore may be spam.”
Another one said, “Action Blocked, You will not be allowed to post this content as it seems your action is repetative.”
Now, I might get this after having posted one or two photos, plus ‘liking’ about 15 or 20 posts of others, 45 percent of which I make a phrase comment on, plus I may follow up to three accounts, and then perhaps comment agin in anser to others commenting to me, maybe 3 to 5 times, plus, I may or may not add up to 6 hashtags to an older post of mine. This is within 4 to 15 hours.
It is only then, when I try to post a comment on a large account (that has more than 4000 followers) that I receive such a ‘warning’. I will still be allowed to comment on a smaller account (600 followers or less) with no ‘warning’.
Then, if I forget what size the next account is and attempt to post to a larger account, that is when I receive a final “Action Blocked” with the same words, and added is a detention phase of 12 to 24 hours.(for me.)
During this “Detention Phase” (my words, not IG’s,) I can still roam in my account, view everybody’s posts, see all the things related to my account, but I wouldn’t be able to post, comment or take any actions.
The first time this happened to me was on my second day of opening my account, I probably had posted up to 10 photos, created a short bio, no links and no website link, ‘liked’ about 2 to 30 photos of others, and made a few comments, less than 30. Those actions were in total over the 48 hours before I got banned for 24 hours.
The other day I was banned for 12 hours. I post all my own comments, likes, etc. I haven’t any association with any buying Followers or anything such as that . (I have 16 Followers and 40 total Photo Posts, and I am Following 85 other accounts. This is in about 2 and a half weeks. I post a new photo or two every day or so.
I do feel as if the Instagram Police are just waiting for me to flub up. When I see other accounts posting 6 to 10 pics a day with the 30 hashtags on all of them, and they are there every day.
Hi Mary,
Thanks for the detailed info. You are probably the first person who can tell me the Action Blocked process in this statistically detailed! This is a great insight.
Yes, Instagram seems to be in this ‘jihad’ against bots and fake accounts, and often its actions seems to be too overkill for us normal users. I can only urge you to be patient, the bots are going to go away soon when the new ‘rezim’ is in place sometimes this year (read my latest post), hopefully by that time Instagram would ease up a bit (one can only hope).
Thanks again for your insight, it’s very very useful. Please let us know if you find anything else.
Hi there,
Thanks very much for the ‘polite words’ 🙂 Unfortunately the rules are more or less the same whether we are a new or old (in Instagram). Though the newest one get even more than these limitations (e.g they can’t like or comment until a certain time – or certain number of posts).
Good luck with your account, and yes, we have to ‘crawl’ on Instagram’s pace. Blame the bots and the fake followers.
I can’t like, comment and my post’s captions dont appear because of the pop up telling me that i paste a link on my instagram profile that they don’t allow but when checked there’s no link on my profile that they are referring too, how can i back my instagram to its normal setting.
Just have to wait I’m afraid.
Do you know if anyone actually got their instagrams enabled after they disabled it ? I follow the instructions of what instagram told me to do in the email, but no response yet !
Yes, usually they do. Just wait.
Hi Chris,
I am trying to create a new account on my iphone but I get the ‘disabled account’ message. I don’t have an account so I am very confused. I’ve tried signing up with my FB, 2 different emails and my telephone number. I get the same message with each one. Any ideas?
Has anybody created accounts using that same device? What was the actual error message you got?
Hey, the message I get, when trying to create an account using my FB: “Your account has been disabled for violating our terms”.
Totally odd as I can’t get an account to violate anything with!
It looks to me that either you or someone had linked that FB account to an Instagram account, which has been disabled.
Try this, borrow a mobile phone from your friend or family and register a new account there, but use a completely new email address, and don’t use fake one, use a real one.
Hi! I’m unfortunately one of the many people who got a temporary 23 hour comment block on instagram. The thing is that I was replying to a friend and I had said the word “you,” then a message pops up and tells me that instagram doesn’t allow those sort of comments. I tried an alternative, I waited about 2 minutes and replied with “you are,” and I got my temporary 23 hour ban. This happened to her as well and our question is if the ban is actually temporary and it will be taken of after 23 hours, and what can we do to avoid getting it again! Thank you 🙂
Yes, the ban should be lifted, at some point.
Next time, try not to do one liner, try to comment with more words. At least for a time being.
The ban hasn’t been lifted yet but commenting more than one word in a sentence seems to work, pretty weird haha! Thanks 🙂
One liner is a mark of a spammer, that’s why Instagram doesn’t like it.
Hi. When I try to follow people I keep getting a message saying I am following the max number of poeple-but I am only at 5410. I have tried leaving it for 24 hours but I have the message again and am unable to follow anyone.
Do you have any advice. I canot find where to contact instagram or report it
Have you been sending Follow Request to private accounts? Follow requests are unfortunately included in the following count.
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I have been doing it through crowd fire. So i don’t think it lets you send one to private accounts anyway.
MY INSTAGRAM PHOTOS KEEP GETTING DELETED AUTOMATICALLY PLEASE HELP
Can you tell me more what you happened and what you were trying to do?
I have a limit on my large account (28.8k followers) I am marketing my business on there. Yesterday it was only allowing me 60 follows. Another friend of mine has had the same thing happen to him.
My secondary account has no restrictions. Any ideas?
How did you know it allowed only 60? Did you get any message from Instagram?
I tried adding people and I just counted
Bro, gue harus pake bahasa inggris kayaknya wkwwkw, well everytime i try to comment on other people post it keeps saying “we try to protect our community bla bla bla…” and wont let me comment, what should i do?
Hehehe, biar orang lain bisa belajar juga bro 🙂
So, it looks like you’ve got banned from commenting. Just wait for a few days, and try again. Remember don’t do one-liner comment. Or repeat the same comment in a row.
Thank you ill wait for a few days and i respect instagram but didnt notice this to happen but thank so much i will
Hi, ive got banned from instagram because i may have liking photos to fast and say im abusive but i send them the reason, apologize to them buti didnt respond yet, what should i do to fix it
Facing the same problem
Instagram said that my account was “banned” because of a link I had kept in my bio. So I attempted to go and remove this link from my bio, and it would tell me that i couldn’t remove the link because there was a link in my bio that was blocked. It was ridiculous.
i have got my instagram account locked and it says to verify your details which I have doe how long will it take for them to give me access to my account again.
Usually very soon after.
can anyone tell me if im blocked; if i post something i hardly get any likes anymore,i use the right hashtags but i hardly get any likes? how can this be; i had another account before and it happend to that one 2. i used like4like pics alot and delete them after a few minutes, could this be a reason why i dont get any likes anymore? what do i do?
How do you expect to get likes if you delete the pictures?!
I got banned because I unfollowed lots of people. It says “you a temporarily blocked” how long with this be for?
If you read my article properly you would know the answer (from 4 hours to 4 weeks).
I unfollowed many ppl in a very less time and they blocked me temporarily. Plz help me ?.. its my shopping business there cant afford to be blocked
Just wait, they should lift the block soon. Just try every day.
U says its ur business place & u unfollow ppl how is that possible, so u want ppl following u?Is Nt my business but u deserve it.
istagram has blocked me from unfollowing anyone how to get rid of this problem????
Just wait for a bit and try again.
Chris thanks a bunch 4all the tips,my Ig was block since on Thursday & thank God I came across ur page, viola the tip of changing bio works perfect. Spend a full day on Ig free from work, got nothing doing ??
Glad that it worked for you 🙂
Hi all, i did the mistake (due to lag) to send a picture four time in few seconds, my account is now disabled and as business owner it makes me angry since i didn’t get any warning.
I am able to login through the mobile to instagram just to read my account is disabled and i’ve an option that allow me to upload a proof that i own a business.
NOW i try to upload a file but i can’t, i mean… seriously when i click the button “upload file” nothing happen.
any ideas?
i can login via mobile but not via pc.
The only suggestion I could think of is to remove the app and reinstall it.
A few days ago I got “temporarily blocked” for 24 hours, for, I assume, liking too many photos in one hour. Fair enough. After 24 hours, I liked about a 100 photos in my feed, and got blocked. Today, once the ban was lifted, I liked about 30 photos in my feed, and was blocked again. So does the limit get lower every time you’re blocked? What can I do about it?
I would suggest not to like for the next 24 hours, and then try again. In the meantime, you should do other things, e.g. posting photos, commenting, following, etc.
I try to lke photo but they always said that may account is blooked
And i dont know how to fixed this
Have you done other things apart from liking photos? For example posting photos, commenting or following people?
Mau share aja nih, 2 minggu lalu saya buat akun, postingan baru 3, semua baik2 aja sampai 2 hari yg lalu pagi2 saya posting gambar. sorenya gabisa akses akun tsb, pas log in disebutin telah melanggar ketentuan. Hari itu juga saya kirim aduan menjelaskan akun saya tidak melanggar rules. Hari ini dapat balasan spt ini :
Your account has been disabled for not following the Instagram Community Guidelines, and we won’t be able to reactivate it. We disable accounts that post content that is sexually suggestive or contains nudity.
Saya heran, postingan saya yg terakhir menurut saya sangat tidak melanggar rules, ikan paus dan kapal apakah melanggar rules?. Kalau dibilang spammer, saya aja belum pernah komen di akun org lain gimana mau nyepam. Mention orang juga belum pernah, apalagi pake bot service yang aneh2..hadu
Kira2 kenapa ya problemnya? apa ada yang melapor? Padahal isi gambar saya cuma hewan2 lucu, dan itu murni karya sendiri bukan punya orang lain. Saya bingung mau email lagi tapi sudah dibales kayak gitu. Yah nasib mungkin musti bikin lagi -_- jadi rada parno
IMHO, there might be someone who reported you. Go and contact them again, tell them that you didn’t feel you had violated the community guidelines, especially that you didn’t post anything even remotely sexual, or even human, you posted animal photos. Atatch examples of the photos you posted for proof.
Hello Everyone & Ofcourse Our Own Chris, well have been cracking my head off just going through ur complains, too bad just Chris that can read & reply to ur complains; too bad others can’t learn & how to avoid such from happening to them!
Happy Easter Folks
Hi, so I can’t post on my page. It’s been 3 days now. I can only post videos , like & comment on people’s pics but I can’t post any pics on my page… Am
I blocked or is something wrong with my page ?
Did you try all the tips I’ve written on my post?
I am extremely disappointed at what has been happening on two separate occasions. I am starting my beach line business, and opened two accounts so far that have been deleted. I never posted ANYTHING vulgar, some of my photos definitely show some skin but nothing that I haven’t seen before on Instagram. I have seen active account with bare naked models. The photo I posted was a lady chair and her whole body was covered with a tree where you couldn’t see anything. Not only did I lose all my pictures, but they are taking away the possibility for me to use that name again on Instagram once I try creating a new account.
I don’t think they understand how this affect the growth of my business. They are limiting, and blocking my ability to build a following due to the lack of screening that has been occurring. They just assume that people are violating terms and permanently delete their content and account without checking or verifying how it is hurting their situation.
This is horrible for their reputation. I send their help center a message, but I doubt they’ll get back to me. If anyone knows of a way I can work this out please help me out.
Hey Chris ,
Am Back again, I did something today I wasn’t
so proud off. Well it goes like this have got almost 7000 followers with more than 300 likes on each pic. + comments that I did myself with likes & comments on each pages I visited & recently out off the blue I notice some on some off my followers with 10000 followers just in few days & am like what?. Have been reading about buying fellowers which I did??, so Chris my questions are this is they any advice or certain don’t & do to avoid from getting into Ig problem ? ladies & gentlemen pls no one should judge me cos am feeling Like an ass hole already ! i feel good whenever I get likes & comments after hours of likes & comments on others pages . Pls help me out Chris cos am feeling really uncomfortable the past hours .
Cheers !
Hi B,
I actually did it myself once, i.e. buying followers, although admittedly I did it for the sake of experiment for Moblivious. I bought 10K followers. Here is the thing, those 10K followers were all fakes! Yes they will boost your followers, but they will not help what so ever with your likes or comments, because simply there is no one behind those accounts.
You won’t get any trouble from IG for buying followers (buying likes or comments are different matter). In anyway, you will lose those follower in a matter of weeks, because Instagram is actively ‘culling’ fake accounts. So, at the end, my followers’ numbers were back to where I started before I bought them. My only consolation was that I bought for pretty cheap.
Hello Chris,
?????!wahoo am going to loss them in due time.i had a terrible night I must confess & hearing this even makes me feel worst! So my hurting continues. I must say am having an addiction from Ig the more am getting likes & comments the more am drawn to it ….moreover am not having it for business just have fun with my son & i .
Highly appreciate all the good tips & advice .
Cheers!
No worry, in the past when Instagram used to be just a small community, we were constantly on it almost all the time. We were all addicts, so much so that I coined the term AIGS (Addicted to InstaGram Syndrome).
Nice1 Chris .
A Very SuperB morning to U .
Cheers?
I got my second account disabled yesterday and have been frantically trying to get it appealed. It was just an account I dedicated for pictures of my husky. The only thing I can think that might have caused this was that sometimes I post the same picture on my main account, though usually days or weeks apart. Also I posted a lot of pictures at once since I’ve only had the account for a week.
Try not to upload pictures all in the same time, this is what fake accounts normally do. Do it like 4 times a day.
HI, this is really helpful post. Thank u. But i have already got disabled. All i did is posted some bags picture that i hv personally and tried to sell it to my friend. Maybe i posted it too frequently, they say that my account is for business so they disabled it….. Is there anyway to recovering it? I dont want to start all over again….T T
How did Instagram say it exactly? And how do you actually do the ‘selling’ part?
350 likes per hour??? I was banned for 2 weeks after about 20. Yesterday it worked again, I liked about 12 and now I´m banned again. Instagram sucks! A very aggressive tutelage! This NEVER EVER happened on all my other Social Media!
You can thank all the bots and fake accounts that ruin it for us.
Can I ask how long have you had your account, how many followers/followings, how many photos do you have?
I’m in the same boat. It lifted then second later it went back on 24 hours alter it lifted for seconds then back on.
I got my second account disabled on Sunday afternoon for violating the terms of service. This account is exclusively photos of my husky and I’ve taken all the photos myself. I’m currently in the appeal process and have yet to hear back. The only thing I can think of that might have gotten me in trouble was that sometimes I will post the same photo in my usual account. The other thing that might have gotten menu trouble is that I posted a lot of photos at roughly the same time because I’ve only had the account for about a week. I just want my account back because the name was awesome. I don’t really care if I lose my followers.
I don’t know if this is considered a block or just a bug in Instagram, but for the past week I have been unable to post pictures. I run a store page so every so often I delete the pictures and start again (adding new pictures) I know Instagram has a post limit so I’d usually wouldn’t be able to post after a certain amount, but now everytime I go to post it will upload my photo and once the page is refreshed my photo deletes itself, I’ve tried to contact Instagram to no reply numerous times, its been almost a week now and I am still unable to post. I have close to 1500 followers and a bunch of items I worked so hard on that I can post 🙁 please someone help me!!
How did you contact Instagram?
Hey there,
I’ve been blocked from liking photos on Instagram because I liked too many photos too fast. This block was on for 24 hours and then it lifted at 3am last night. I was awake cause I’m a night owl ? So then I liked about five photos, not quickly, and bam! I’m blocked again! I have sent a million messages to IG through the “tell me” option and through feedback in the “somethings not working” category. I don’t know if this is an error or something, but my account is not spam or anything like that. Will I get unblocked? In the next 24 hours? I fear that I’ll be unblocked and then blocked again. Anyone know anything?
this happened to me too!! what worked for you? when were you unblocked?
**This actually works! Thank you! So happy lah!
Edit your Bio. I’ve read from some of the comments in this article that changing your bio had made the ban successfully lifted
I have read your article and will not ask when my account will go back to normal 😉 I have a different issue. Maybe you have some ideas. I recently created an account 3 weeks ago. I am unable to tag more than 2 people on my actual picture now. I am following 150 people, probably 100 of them were in the first 2 weeks… which this issue began on my 3rd picture. The most i have ever tried tagging in a picture is 9. It acts as if I am tagging them but when I go to save them it doesn’t save any of will just save 2. I have tried numerous attempts to contact them. i have done pretty much everything I can think of from uninstalling the app and even using my account on a completely different phone, where it did the exact same thing. I don’t think i have done anything excessively…. especially when tagging people within the picture. Everything else seems to be working ok. My Instagram is CrueltyFreeWithMandy if you want to check it out. I do have a few of those account that claim to get you followers that are following me and 2 have tagged me in posts. One I did comment them back and ask them to not tag me again. This is the only thing I can think of. My personal account is working just fine, but I have had that account for over 3 years and maybe have posted 7 times lol. It seems to be an issue that others are having but not enough people to find many answers.Thank you for your help.
The answer is simple. Instagram is limiting how many people you can tag in one post, this could be because your account is new or because you’ve been tagging people in each and ever of your post, or both.
I’ve visited your account and it looks to me that your are using the account for ‘advertising’, CMIIW. Tagging is just not a good way of doing this, it has very limited reach, and you will risk your account getting banned because of excessive tagging, it’s not worth it. Just use Hashtags strategy instead if you want to reach people with your brand and product.
I am not able to send direct messeges to people I want to send why it’s happening before I was sending msgs but now I can.I have a new account and am following 270 people’s. My account is 24 hours old ….
You can’t or you can? I don’t follow your question.
I made a fan page. I started posting photos of my favorite celebrities. then 4 hours later my account got disabled. I emailed Instagram photo proof and stuff and it’s been 12 hours I have not yet received a reply. I’m waiting cause I don’t wanna make another account. a lot of people have fan accounts and I get disabled. None of my photos violated anything. so why should I start another account. does anyone know how long does it take for them to restore? Cause it’s really no point in making another account when all I’m gonna do is post photos again and they disabled it again. please help. I sent them a photo of myself along with proof that they ask for. 12 hours past and I haven’t heard anything. I resent the proof like more than 7 times. how long will it take for my account to me restored?
Just be patient, if they decide to reinstate your account it would be soon. Having said that, posting photos that you don’t take yourself might not be the best idea in Instagram. When or if you get your account back, please state this fact in your bio, write that this account is just a fan page, and that you don’t take the photos yourself, and include attribution to the original photographer or the source where you get the photos originally.
How do I go about this please I have tried to follow the instructions and put a tick where recquired but it’s not letting me in!!! Below is the message I get everytime I try to login since yesterday.
We Removed Content You Posted
We’ve removed or disabled access to content that you posted on Instagram because a third party reported that the content infringes or otherwise violates their rights.
To learn more and to view the content that was removed, please visit:
Did you go to the link included in that message to check which content it was removed?
Yes I did and I ticked the required box but it won’t open my account when I try the same message keeps popping up and it says opps error
What does the tick for?
I’m in the same boat as you. Anything from IG yet? I’m still waiting for them to get back to me.
same here, I ticked the box but it keeps popping error page! and still no response from them! 2 days now and still nothing
In my bio, I said fan page. And Instagram is filled with fan accounts for other celebrities. Before I got disabled, I gained About 90 followers. To start that again is just a pain. When I made the account, I posted 40 photos and used hash tags. I’m not that kind of person that pays for followers. So I hash tag to get them. When I first created the account, I tried to comment on my friends accounts cause they also have fan accounts. But I kept getting that blocked comment message. Instagram is loaded with fan accounts for other celebrities. I just don’t get how mines got disabled when I’ve done nothing wrong. I never post nudes or anything either. it’s driving me crazy cause I sent them proof that they asked for a dozen times. My friend tried tweeting Instagram to try to make the process faster but they just ignore people on Twitter and Facebook.
That’s Instagram for you, don’t waste your time to try to make the process faster, it won’t work. You’ve done all you can do, now you will just have to wait what they will do.
I was banned for followijg people i think, i came home and couldnt log into my account it said i violated the terms and service is there any way i can get my account back now
Please read the article.
I posted a song video on instagram a month ago, today i received insta warning that they removed or disabled access to the following content which is this video. they mentioned to click on something to review the content to make sure that i have not posted any other infringing content. but I can’t get access to my account. it’s been hours and still shows: couldn’t loud results on my account!
Sometimes Instagram is just stupid! My only suggestion is to keep trying.
Gada, I just received the same thing. I go to click the box to accept that they took down a video of mine and to agree with their guidelines and I get sent to a page that gives me an error. Now I’m locked onto the page that I mentioned first as well as the error page… So frustrating.
Hello Chris,
My IG account has been disabled since 1 week. I have filled the form ie My account has been hacked. Post that I got an email from IG team stating to send a photo with some code, name and username. I have done all that. After 2 days I got an email from IG team ie we currently don’t offer personalized experiences on IG or individual tech support.
What to do now? I want my account back.
Wow that’s new! Do you know why your account was disabled? Did you get any notification about it?
Hello. I write you my experiences. I’m new to Instagram. I have registrated two accounts two weeks ago, one of them is my business. I’m using Instabot for my business’s profile. I’ve set likes_per_day to 8400, which is 350 hourly, and Instabot only liked new posts with a maximum of 3 likes. I ran my first session today, in 8 hours I exceeded 2200 likes, which is about 275 likes per hour. So I didn’t exceed the hourly limit of 350 likes.
Here’s the interesting part: I ran another session with Instabot when I got home. It has been running for 1.5 hours with about 400 likes. Then I noticed Instabot fails to like new posts, checked Instagram, it said I’m temporarily blocked from using this option.
I found the exact same experience from someone else on a different topic, a commenter said he was blocked after 2600 likes. He said he ran Instabot again after being unblocked, and he doesn’t exceed 1800-2000 likes per day. He does this for 23 days without any warnings or bans.
I hope I helped. There seems to be a daily limit for likes, which is around 2600.
After exactly 24 hours of being disabled from liking, I regain the right to like again, however I only started using automated liking after 36 hours of rest. And only with 12 likes per hour (100 likes daily). Everything works fine. I plan to make it faster each day to 250-275 likes per hour again and only up to 8 hours (in the same time of the day) – so I won’t exceed 2000-2200 likes daily. I write again, if I get blocked again.
My account got banned – told me I violated the terms. I filled out the form cause I have no idea what I did or what happened and got an email from them to send a picture with my face, a code, my name and my ig name. Sent that off and no response. This was 6 days ago and no one will respond to my emails. I don’t understand why they would make that request and then ignore my response.
Just wait, it does take weeks sometimes.
I accidentally removed my email id from the Instagram account while searching for a conformation code after a password change. Now i am not able to access the account as is says to very account by entering a six digit code , which i don’t know from where to produce. Hence have a new password but i am not able to use it. I also think i had linked my account to my facebook profile earlier so please tell if there is any way to use it as conformation . I’ve also mailed Instagram regarding the same. Could there be a possible solution to this problem
After getting blocked 24 hours cause of overliking what is the limit of like we can give by hours? I got block after 120 likes the 1st time then 16 likes the second… How did they calculate the limit? I am lost
Just cool it down for a bit. Do other things then liking for a few days.
Ya that is my plan Chris… I was just wondering if someone know if it is a limit of like lower after get blocked… Cause it seems it is one… Thanks anyway for your answer
same here! 🙁 now it’s working as usual or not?
Great article. Do you know if you can get deactivated for following too many people, or do they just limit you? I got deactivated and if it wasn’t for following too many people then I think it was because I posted a picture of something not zoomed in then another photo of it zoomed in and thinking they considered this spam or something. What are your thoughts? And is there an average time for me to get reinstated, and what are the chances you think I get my account back? Thanks!
What do you mean ‘deactivated’? You mean you can’t login? What error message you get exactly?
What does it mean when it says “feedback_required” when trying to comment?
I’ve never heard about this one. Was it just for one comment? Can you comment to other posts?
I cannot comment or like or follow anybody or even change my bio. Also, when I try to comment it says that there is something wrong with my link. Everytime I try to do those things it says that my link is marked as abusive. I already reported the problem and also did the tell us thing. Does this consider to be banned?
I got blocked from writing this comment:
Wow! You look amazing!
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So perhaps they have a “!” limit too…?
No, you are blocked, possibly because you’ve written the same comment several times in a short time. You have to vary your comment so Instagram doesn’t think that you are a bot.
I can’t upload pictures. I can only upload videos it seems to happen every week. I post about 30 – 50 posts a day is this why? Will I be able to post pics again. How many pics a day is too much
30 pictures a day? Are you mad? Why would you do that?
Is there a limit on how many comments you can make per day ? I’ve been blocked 7 times in last few months. I don’t have to work anymore so I live on instgram. I’m going to not anyone’s pic Anymore. But I make sure only positive things and I stil get blocked. I changed my bio and I still just got blocked again. It’s literally every other day I’m getting blocked. It’s very hard not to comment on things. I don’t know what I can do about it. I’ve sent countless messages to them but they never reply.
I need an email for them. Also I tried to delete and reinstall the app and I logged onto the app with my Instagram info and all my photos and everything is gone. Do I have to start over? I can still get on their webpage. My account is on there. I thought if I did that it would help me get unblocked. I did everything you said to do. But j got blocked again today.
You need to slow down, like a lot. It seems to me from what you described that you’re on Instagram constantly almost 24 hours and commenting all the time. You can’t do this anymore. You have to exercise moderation, unfortunately. Only like and comment when it’s necessary.
Ok I will. But I need to know if you know why when I reloaded the app I logged into it and my whole account and pics are gone. It’s still on the website. I thought it would transfer to app. I sent them yet another message no one ever gets back to me.
Ok I will. But I need to know if you know why when I reloaded the app I logged in and my account is gone it’s still on the website
This website is just as bad. I was trying to ask you something about what I wrote Above about the app and it says duplicate comments.
Hey. Found this post because I got disabled from Instagram for posting a photo of some artsy statues in my university library. Update: you cannot appeal by logging into the account and “following instructions.” You have to go to Instagram Help to file a report on “Hacked accounts”, but select the option “My account hasn’t been hacked”. Unfortunately, so far I have only gotten automated messages signed “Elliott, Community Operations.” If you know of any ways to get in touch with real people on The Instagram Team, or somehow call attention to my case, please do shout out.
Unfortunately, that is as far as you will get. You will just have to be patient and wait for their replies. Or keep sending them the form you filled in previously.
Grace, can I ask if you had any luck in getting your account back?!
When I am tagging other accounts to my pictures the tags automatically disappear in a short time. They are five certain accounts that post other pictures. Is it possible that I got banned because I tagged them multiple times (3-5) in short period. I can tag all other.
Yes it’s possible. Either that or those accounts untag themselves from the photo.
any idea how long can it last?
I am new to Instagram only 6 days. I was liking photos all day yesterday for hours. I can see on my follow feed that several people I follow have bots that continuously like and get away with it. I do it and I get the pop up that the action is temporarily blocked. I can still comment and post pics etc just no likes. It doesn’t give a date any clue when it will be lifted?
You must slow down, follow the rules you read in this post. This is even more important for new users. You cannot just Likes and Comments all day long, you have to post pictures as well. And ALL in moderation. The ban should be lifted soon.
Hey. thanks for the article. i’m blocked on liking pictures. after 24 hours i can like pictures again – but only like 4 or 5 than it is blocked again… what can i do?
Just wait for another day. Do it in moderation. And don’t forget to post pictures, don’t just like or comment, that’s a common behaviour of bots.
I recently sent a post of terrible animal abuse! From an animal rights page, who had taken this from the abusers account! I sent this direct
Message to a friend on IG. I received a message from IGTo say they were blocking my account in 23 hours! Did they mean for 23 hours! I replied explaining! The post is still on the abusers account and also the animal rights page! Something doesn’t seem right, can you help! My own account has nothing horrible at all I sent this direct in hope that my friend could try and report the abusers account.
Wait for 23 hours and try again.
Hi,
First, thank you for helping others! So here is the problem I have on Instagram: For a week now, I’ve not received notifications about new followers only – I’ve well received those about new likes and comments. Furthermore, when I’m connecting on my IG account, I need to refresh the Activity Tab to see new followers/likes/comments – so these actions don’t appear automatically anymore. When I’m receiving notifications about new followers and then refreshing my account (where all my posts are visible), the follower counter decreases! So for one week, I’ve got more than 100 new followers, but my follower counter seems to be blocked, fluctuating all the time. I still can follow other accounts and like posts. Before the problem occured, I’ve followed a lot of other accounts and sometimes unfollowed. I’ve tried everything – uninstall/install the app,…- but nothing’s changing. Can you help me?
I’ve never heard about this issue. Hopefully it’s just a glitch. Let us know if you still are getting it.
So according to you, this seems that my account is blocked or not? Do you think that it can be solved? I try to reach Instagram but no answer and I don’t know what to do! Thanks in advance for your response.
Hi, I got an automatic block for an unauthorized link (single.com) on my bio by instagram and i can’t change the link, please help me to change it , what shuld i do to release my instagram ?! 🙁
Have you tried to login to Instagram.com (on the normal browser) and change it from there?
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT’s HAPPENING TO ME AND IT’S SO FRUSTRATING BECAUSE IT WONT LET ME EVEN CHANGE THE LINK. HAS YOUR ACCOUNT BEEN FIXED?
I was blocked when i give likes because i liked so much and fast .What should i do? Thans for your response.
Please read the article again.
I can’t like or follow people on my Instagram! When I try it says I’m automated spam block or that my profile has a link that is not authorized. I tried taking off the link or editing my bio but it’s not working.
Have you tried to change your bio via the browser? Go to Instagram.com, login to your Instagram account and go to your Profile page.
Yes, I did it through my lap top but I get “automated spam block” :((( it’s been a week and I’ve send them reports but I get nothing back. :((
Ok, in this case you just have to wait.
Why suddenly instagram blocked? It said that i was try do to somethng abusive. So it did pop out the noti, like you posted but the content is about abusive actions something like that. And i click that button ‘tell me’ and idk what exactly that i have to do. I can’t excess to any part of instagram. Please help me solve this
Can you think of something you did that could be considered ‘abusive’ by Instagram? In anyway, normally you would just need to wait until the block is lifted.
i got action block by instagram and its been 3 weeks and i still cant like anyone post or follow anyone. Now how ?!!
One more week from the 4-week limit I wrote in this article.
Also, don’t just wait for the block to be lifted and do nothing. You should be posting photos regularly and commenting on someone else’s post.
Also, have you tried changing your bio?
im not really a person who post picture or anything i’ll try.And also i tried to change my bio through the laptop or phone but it didn’t allowed me to change.I also can’t comment on anyone’s post but they can still like my last time post. How to slove this issue it’s been very long.
Hi chris, my account got disabled for following alot of users i guess and now they asked me to send my picture holding a code on a white sheet of paper they sent me through the email in order to help me 🙁 what shal i do?shal i wait 4 weeks? Or reply them with my picture and the code? And if i did so.. Will i be able to getback my account?
You must send them the code! This is the only sure way to get your account back. Do it now.
Ilobebrandsq8… Did you ever get your account back after sending a photo of the code?! I’ve had the same thing due to someone hacking me and I’m desperate to get my account back and have sent the code but no response yet…
Hi,
I was in my account yesterday, when I was kicked out and told I needed to sign back in. Couldn’t remember my password, so I had a link sent to my email to reset it. Once I signed back in, a message kept popping up saying I have an inappropriate link in my bio (it has been there for a couple of weeks). I clicked on the tell us button to tell them why it wasn’t inappropriate (it’s just a link to my personal website – nothing offensive on there). I am not able to like or comment. It won’t allow me to change the link in my bio. I’ve tried reinstalling the app, resetting my phone, changing the link, changing other things in my bio – nothing works. Any suggestions? This is the first time I’ve ever had this happen. Thanks
Yes, you and probably hundreds more people. Already in this comments I’ve seen 3 other people having the same problem 🙁
Instagram is getting crazier every day.
You did fill in the form on the ‘Tell Us’ button, did you?
I filled it out just about every time it popped up…lol. If that link was up for awhile, does that mean someone didn’t like it and reported it as offensive? When I try to change it in my bio, I still get the message that I have an offensive link even though there is nothing in the space. Therefore, I can’t save any changes to my bio to fix the “problem”.
Hello! I’ve just created a new account 2 weeks ago and started liking and commenting and posting photos but noting in exces. A week ago i left the coment “beautiful” on someones photo and the action blocked message came in. I was blocked for 23 hours. Since then whenerver I post a picture and tag people in my picture the tags disappear after refreshing the page. If I try to edit the photo the tags disappear after aswell. It worked 3 days ago but since then I couldn’t tag anymore. How can I solve this problem?
That’s harsh. I don’t have any suggestion for your other than just wait for a while before starting to tag people again. But don’t stop posting. Keep your regular Instagram activity.
Hi there! I just got supposedly banned and cannot comment on photos anymore – even though i have only commented 3 random ones! do you know why this happens? it has occurred for the past two days already. please help!
Do you post photos and/or like other photos regularly? Did you comment with just one word?
I am just seeing this. A couple, 3?? months ago, I had the error message a couple of times. I thought someone was hacking my account the first time.
The 2nd time it appeared to happen after I posted on Instagram and had Instagram post on Facebook at the same time.
I removed the link between Instagram and Facebook and haven’t had an issue again.
So I thought it was a glitch. Now I am unsure, but I didn’t do any of the above only follow about 450 and have about 350 followers.
Which error message are you referring to?
hello, so i followed an absurd amount of people, far above the limit for sure, somewhere in the nature of 400 in less than a day, but as of yet i have not been blocked or received contact from instagram. Am I in the clear?
Lucky you. I wouldn’t push it though. Proceed at your own risk, you’ve been warned.
I got a link from another user posted to.my profile and it was a scammers I didn’t know so now I cant do anything but post pictures what do I do
You cannot change the link?
It happened to me too. I can’t change the link and the only thing I can do is like. It’s been 3 and half weeks. Do you have any idea on how to fix this problem?
Give it another half a week. Or you can try to contact them through the form I linked here.
Hey , I have been unable to like , comment , & follow people for almost 4 weeks now . All im able to do is post pictures & I cant even use a caption . When im on my mobil device it says its because i have an unsupported link in my bio .. Ive tried to change it but it wont let me ? Ive tried to change it on my laptop & it tells me im spam blocked . Ive had the same bio for over 2 months and like i said i was just recently blocked from doing those things . Any tips ?
Can you change anything else on your bio (apart from the link)?
I tried changing bio from 3 different devices. The link is stuck. I see other people are having the same problem.
I’m having the same problem. I tried changing my bio and using the tell us form, but it still hasn’t been fixed. I am a quote page not spam. I have been on Instagram for 2 years with no problems. What can I do? It will be a month on Tuesday.
so yesterday I created a new account and I tried editing my bio but I went past the word limit the first few times and now Instagram said I was under a ‘spam block’. It’s been one day already and the block is still not lifted, I already clicked the “tell us” button and tried reporting this problem but nope no reply help please
You just have to wait. Keep trying.
I have read this entire thread and see no resolution for the link error that blocks you from commenting, liking, following on Instagram. It has been almost a month. I try all the time to remove the link. I read somewhere that trying to remove the link will cause your wait time to increase. This is very frustrating and I can’t find any solutions anywhere. Can someone who had this problem update it on here. I know when i get my account fixed I will share with you all
I’ve been searching for the same thing, Shatina. Beyond frustrated! I’ve even considered deleting my account and starting over, but I don’t want to lose my followers. 🙁
I’ve tried to remove the link several times and it won’t let me. I’ve also tried contacting IG several times and get NO response from them! I, like you, will absolutely share if I ever find the resolution.
My account is having problems. I have, and have had for over a year, my GoDaddy link to my business in my profile. A few weeks ago, I got a notification that the link is not approved, so I tried to remove it, but it will not let me save any changes.
Last week, I got an email saying that my account has been compromised and I should change my password, in which I did, but nothing has changed. I still cannot make any changes to my profile or like/comment on a picture.
I filled out the “Tell Us” if you think this is a mistake section and I’ve heard nothing and still cannot do anything except post a picture.
How long has this been since you filled in the ‘Tell Us’ form?
It’s been 2 weeks and Ig haven’t unblocked me yet I can’t like pictures,or comment or follow nor I can post a picture please help me
Wow, that’s severe, what did you do? Have you tried all my suggestions on this post?
i temporarily disabled my account because it blocked me and now it won’t let me log back in…says it doesn’t recognize my user name?!
okay, it finally let me back in and will let me post a pic, but won’t let me post any comments or hashtags
Be patient. Just do which ever action that Instagram lets you do, for now.
I’ve seen others that have said they filled out a form and received an email from IG asking for proof they’re a real person. Have you heard of this? if so, so you know where I can get that form? I’d like to try that route to see if I can even get a response from them. I’ve tried to change my bio and it won’t let me save – on top of not allowing me to delete my website that I think is causing the linking bs.
Yes, that’s a normal response Instagram send to people. The form is linked in this post.
Chris, this is the error message I get when I click on the above link to the form:
Sorry this page isn’t available. The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed.
Wow, looks like Instagram had blocked that form too! Amazing! Thanks for letting me know about this so I can take care of it immediately.
Try this link: https://help.instagram.com/contact/740949042640030 – Say now when it asks you whether you have access to your email or not, and then fill in the rest of the form.
so i’ve already been in the dog house for a handful of days…says something about linking, but it won’t let me delete my website from my bio – if that’s the problem. I’m very new to all of this and not even sure what i did wrong. yesterday it let me post a photo, but wouldn’t post my description about the photo. now i temporarily disabled my account seeing if that would work and i can’t log back in. 🙁
Hi. Great article. My account was disabled after being on Instagram for only 3 days! I was following these rules above and bam Istagram logged me out and I can not get back in. No message nothing. I just got a two week ban lifted from being able to join groups on Facebook so is it possible that been I created my Instagram account by logging in through Facebook that I was already labeled a “spammer ” ?
I doubt that’s that the case, but you never know. What error message you get when you try to log in?
Hi, want ask something.. Once i upload my photo.. After a few second, instagram delete my picture.. 🙁 may i know why?
You are most likely being blocked from posting. Just ease up a little bit, and do other things, e.g. liking and commenting.
Try also changing your bio.
1 weeks already.. 🙁 sometime i can uplod 1 photo for one day.. Or 2 or 5 photo. After that.. Once i upload more photo, instagram delete my pic… I already change my bio.. So what should i do? Berapa lama my insta akn pulih speeti biasa?
How long have you had your account? Is it a new account?
My account suddenly idk why they say have a link which is like restricted but like idk wat link i try to edit my profile and remove my bio link and everything still dont work i dont get whats the problem
Hi, My account got disabled. I was suddenly thrown out of my account and wen I tried to login again I got the error – your account has been disabled for violating tnc.
When I tried to login through my laptop I got this error – The username you entered doesn’t belong to an account. Please check your username and try again.
Please help. Say something positive pls. 🙁
Here is from Instagram Help page:
“If you think your account was disabled by mistake, you may be able to appeal the decision by opening the app, entering your username and password and following the on-screen instructions.”
You can read more here: https://help.instagram.com/366993040048856
i’m relatively new to instagram and i guessed i got banned for liking too much, for liking too soon. followed your tip and deleted my bio both in android and imac. typed in same bio afterwards and it doesn’t appear on my android but it’s there on my imac. ban was not lifted on the former but i’m happy i could hit like again at least on my computer (albiet on tiptoes and with extreme moderation). 😀
You should just edit the bio once, your account on the web and on the mobile is the same (it’s not like you have 2 versions of account). So edits on either device should reflect on the other one. Try to logout and login again flush the cache, and it should sync.
Hi Chris. I need help. I tried changing the link on my bio but it keeps on telling me “it looks like your profile contains a link that is not allowed.” for almost two weeks now. I tried reporting it but received nothing. please help me.
Yeah, it looks like many people are getting the same thing. Unfortunately I don’t how to fix it, yet. I’ll post it here when I know. In the meantime just keep reporting it.
I sent the same message to several profiles, so now I can’t send any messages from my account ?.. I’m an episode writer so I sent message to episode review accounts asking for review! I did report under ‘something is not working’, can it get back to normal? Can I send messages again?
You will have to wait until Instagram lift the block (I don’t know when). And when you can send message again you will need to re-think your strategy. As you can see Instagram doesn’t like spammers and unfortunately you are behaving like one (at least according to Instagram).
The part u say in your articles about if your a new user to instagram not to like or comment on pics straight away wait a week got me in trouble with a few friends and one person I followed that I didn’t know. Two of em Commented on 1 of my pics saying why follow them if I don’t like there pics and had said they will block me if I didn’t like their stuff . I told em bout this article n they say that’s B’s. I didn’t get in trouble with Instagram. But I sure got in trouble with two good friends.. Thanks a lot dude..
I don’t care what your friend said, what I’ve written was based from experiences people had told me, and not just some imagination. Feel free to do as you please, nobody is telling you to follow my advise, go ahead! But you’ve been warned, so don’t come running back this way if something happen to your account! Do you see how many comments had been post under this post? This is not BS, these are real issues reported by real Instagram users!
On another note, what kind of good friends that put Likes and Comments on top of Friendship?! And even threatening to block?! Absolutely absurd! It’s like having someone who would rather push you off a cliff to save their own asses! That’s the kind of friends you have there.
Hey
U should be glad to come across Chris.am speaking for each & everyone that comes back including myself coz mate whatever Chris advices u is the best take my word for u.
Success with Ig the place u loss urself till u are temproray block & come to your senses????
Thanks for the support Betty 🙂
Morning Chris,
It’s my pleasure !
Truth most be said & thanks once more for bailing me over & over out of Ig Dog Hole!
Chris just a question ! Is they an advice on how long one should be on Ig for a day, u know not to fall into their s*** after been carried away ?
So glad having u to run too always ??
There is no limit to be on IG, you can be there 24 hours every day if you want to. Just don’t do what you are not supposed to do, as advised in this post 🙂
My daughter cannot like or comment on anything because she accidentally put something in her bio that looks like a link. She was trying to add a date that was important to her, 1.17.16, but her autocorrect added a “.com” to it. Now it shows up as a website that they think is a spam site. She has tried to delete it from her bio but the save action just gives her the same error message and won’t delete it. How will they contact her about allowing the deletion to her bio? We can’t fix it until they let us edit the bio.
Hi there, sorry that your daughter got this problem, many people in fact has had the same issue. Unfortunately nobody has reported any success of how to fix it yet. So the only thing I can advise you is to report it to Instagram (I’ve written how to do it in this post).
Hi! Is there a rule that I cant tag random people. ??. Because I was tagging random people under a post., then there was some popup saying that action is blocked and it will be disabled in a week..Now I cant comment normally or post images with captions or hashtags!
It’s not that you can’t tag, it’s that you can tag too many. So, everything in Instagram is in moderation, that’s the rule.
My friend was getting bullied so she told the bully to kill themselves and they reported her. Now she can’t reply to other users in the comments.
She should report the person as well. And ask everybody she/he knows to report the same person too.
Hi I really need your help here.. I am banned from commenting last Friday and finally released on Sat and I commented about 20 or less after and got banned again until next Sunday and I am still not able to comment now is Monday. So I guess it means the coming Sunday then. I can wait, it’s OK. But my problem is since I got banned from commenting on Saturday .. I haven’t been able to have any caption uploaded or even editing any of my posts since Sunday afternoon. I am wondering if they are related? Because I seriously do not know why I can’t have caption and I never have more than 5# on caption either.. Is there a ban or block on caption?? And why? How do I unblock it and have caption of my own photos again??
Thanks your help will be really appreciated
Are you telling me that if you post a new photo whatever caption you write would disappear? Or is there any specific error message?
Hi I am so happy you reply me!
Whatever what I put with photo, after uploading, nothing show up and my caption is always very basic like good morning etc and very few #…
And I tried to edit it after several times. There is always a message saying “the edits can’t be saved, please try again later” and I can’t even edit caption on old photos either since Sunday!!! I am having a comment ban until Sunday at the moment (which is ridiculous from commented about 20 photos) is it related??! Is my account in serious trouble?? My account is an ootd account completely harmless to society!
Look forward to hearing from you soon ?
Basically I can’t have anything written on my own account by me at the moment.. either comments, replies or caption.. But I can upload photo tag link on photo, add location etc
I wanted to have so many folowers so I start to follow about another 600 people and after they followed me back I un-followed them all. Suddenly instagram blocked me. How can I unblock myself?
Please read the article again.
Wow Bravo ppl like u that F***** things up for ppl like us , pls no offence should be taken. Why bother yourself following ppl when u knew dip in ur mind u are going to unfollow????! For ur own good I advice it’s better u don’t follow and if u got something good going on u will have followers! I did some silly thing few months ago that I wasn’t not proud off & trust me am having left with 200 followers to make 20K while 10k are all genius and am ok & proud of it.
Success Tom!
lol more land mines than the fields of Afghanistan. Fuck ig
I tried to follow an account and it did the fake green ‘following’ and would kick back that I didn’t actually follow the account. No issue with other accounts, so I thought blocked, but believe it’s a caching issue. Tested with a fake another account and could follow no problem. So, I did a whole bunch of changes: changed password twice, unfollowed some accounts, followed some new, unfollwed/unliked anything suspicious. Waited some time after the changes, and then tried to follow that account and success. The parameters of Instagram’s algorithms must be what is preventing basic operations and it’s unfortunate that it affects honest users, add on top of that the logo debacle. It’s not wise to compare war to life though, Instagram is just pictures and videos.
Hopefully with the new Instagram ToS, they will ease up a little bit with the limitations, now that the bots might be disappearing.
Well I have been hacked or deleted like 5 times and never violated terms or did anything wrong. It’s just haters reporting so many times till automated IG takes you down and I wish IG would do something about fake reports …. It’s ridiculous having to fight for your page every 3 weeks when u have over 800,000 followers
I agree with you completely.
Hi Chris! Boy am I glad to have found you and your article. I have been searching far and wide for some help. I recently started a travel account and was unaware of the rules. After gaining follower access back, I am now only able to tag 2 people per picture and none of the hashtags I use are showing up in the feed. They were in the beginning and now my page has gone downhill with no likes or followers. Does this mean I am flagged? Please help!!!
I would say so. Stay ‘low’ for a few weeks, keep posting but don’t tag people (this is a really bad marketing practice no wonder Instagram hates it). Don’t use your usual hashtags either, try to use something else. Hopefully your account will be back as it was.
I was isp banned for posting ‘stay strong berners’ this underneath a post that said fuck you cunt. First time I had posted the comment. Bam, banned AND ISP blocked. I’d say there’s more going on there than simply trying to stop spamming. I’d say it’s censorship pro Hillary. And it stinks.
I was banned for liking too many pictures. Editing my Bio worked! Thank you so much!!!
Glad it worked for you!
How many pictures did you like per hour? Did you do it yourself or used a bot? Thank you
Hi I just want to ask why do I always get disabled by Instagram and they always block me in comments for 24 hours and lastly my worse problem is that I can’t tag people in my photos. I don’t know why are they doing this to my account I reported this to them so many times and yet nothing changes I’m just so sad why this thing’s are happening to me because I want to be active on Instagram. I hope you reply ? Because I want some tips on how CanI do this things again
Did you do any of the things I wrote in this post?
I am having issues with my account recently. When I post a photo, I can search for the hashtag I used and see my photo for about 30 seconds. After 30 seconds, my photo disappears from the feed for that hashtag as if I had never posted it before. This happens when I try with different hashtags and different photos, so it’s not a problem exclusive to a single hashtag or photo. When this happens, however, I can search for the hashtag on my laptop and the photo appears there. Any idea if this is part of being temporarily blocked or what the issue might be?
The first scenario was using your mobile? And where do you write the hashtag, in the caption or in the comment?
I tried both methods. I tried changing my profile description and it seems to be working now. Thanks for that tip!
Glad I could help.
I’m having trouble with my new instagram account that certain followers I can like and post comments and certain followers I can only like posts but I cannot posts comments. I keep getting pop up message temporarily blocked for 23 hours we restrict certain content to protect our community. When I try to go back and post to comment I am blocked again with the same pop up message. I have reported this problem with instagram but nothing has been resolved. I told them I am not a fake account. I don’t know what to do.
Nothing you can do. That’s Instagram policy for new account, you just have to bear with it and accept that new account is limited. Observer the rules I’ve posted here and you should be fine. Don’t waste your time reporting it to Instagram, they won’t change their algorithm just for you.
Hi Chris,
Thanks you very much. I will steer away for two weeks not to like or posts any comments for now. I will just keep posting more pictures of me and post more pictures other stuff and abide by their rules.
Thank you for your help.
Sandra
Hello dear ,
This is my second report within this week for a same reason . Let me briefly explain what just happened in this week so far . I am a active user of instagram and I do give likes randomly for gaining followers and likes on my post . I do not entertain spam or bots business . But in this week I was blocked three times for 24 hours reportedly .
On different dates and days .this problem started before but now it’s turned so often . Even after 150 to 200 likes I am getting the message. This problem highlighted before through instagram report problem on its official portal . Please help me .
Thank you so much .
Just ease up with the likes for a week or so, but continue posting photos (this is important). Unfortunately this is the way with Instagram these days, nothing we can do about it. They are totally paranoid bunch and unforgiving. Have a read at the rules, and try to see the patterns of what might get you blocked.
For further information I want to add up …
I already tried changing my password and bio but nothing worked . Please help me . If I am not able to like at least for 50 pics what is the use of keeping the instagram . Currently I have 2400 followers .
User name : sanam_photography
Hey chris ,
Thanks for the quick response . Can you give me some number or limits which I can follow. The last time I was blocked after liking around 170 to 200 pics . Some time it’s even below that.
Start with 50 first, and gradually increasing it on weekly basis.
Hey chris
This is so frustrating! My business ig Acct (the only 1 I have) got banned and I (thought) I figured out why and revoked access from 1 of those silly free like apps. It worked fine for a moment but then I reposted (using repost) 1 photo of our menu a client took and now I’m banned from captioning or commenting for another 24 hrs. Is repost an issue or am I on a “watch list”. I otherwise don’t abuse the system. Thx!
What is ‘repost’? Is that a third-party app?
Yes it’s a third part reposting app everyone uses without “getting in trouble”. Thanks!
Obviously it didn’t work, did it 😉 You did get in trouble. Please don’t use it anymore.
my ig account is acting like it is private! but it is not, it is an open account. i can like, comment or mention. i can geotag my photos. but other than my followers can’t see my post under hashtag feeds. they can see on web. yes, on web browser of instagram my hashtags are working. but on the app no one other than my follewers can see my pictures. an lastly the people that don follow me can see my photos if they looked geotaged photos.
Has it been always like this since the beginning, or is this happening just recently?
it happened about 3 weeks ago. then suddenly it is passed but after 3 or 4 days happened again. i think of something: my instagram updated to its new design (black and white minimal) and i was in the test group. because of this i posted a blackandwhite photo and made a caption like this “welcome new #instagram”. i thing because of the instagram hastag my photo get a few likes( i learned this is a banned tag later..) and i deleted post and repost again. the same thing happened. then i do it one more time. this action i think made my accound banned/flagged etc.
I would just wait for a few weeks. There is not much we can do from our side apart from trying to report it to Instagram.
Hi Bro,
Has your problem been solved ?
I have the same. You can dm if you want to talk about that.
My username is @masterofparis.
See u soon
Master.
i have more then 200 accounts with me i am using them from past 1year for commenting and doing it superbly , each account have over 10 post and many followers ,after instagram update recent one all accounts got locked and for phone verification where they are already verified ( if unlock them and comment again they lock again after few comments) i use Mundimago.com com for comments also i use spun comments to comment on diffrent profile
please help me to solve this issue
my skype:seo14u
Sorry I can’t help you. Obviously Instagram caught you cheating, and proceed to take care of it. You are a good example of why Instagram has been very paranoid, and because people like you, other honest users are suffering. I have no sympathy for you to be perfectly honest.
I suggest that you delete all your accounts, and start again with just one account, like everybody else, because there is no way that Instagram will relent, your accounts will always be in trouble.
I’m blocked by sending dm
Hi Chris, thanks so much for your post!
I’m having a slight problem on my instagram. I’m currently using the new “log into multiple accounts and switch the one you’re using without logging out” function, and out of the 5, I can only like photos from one account. I haven’t mass followed or liked, or unfollowed or unliked anything. I can post, comment, etc., but I just can’t like posts. If I try, then a message that says “can’t like post. this post can’t be liked right now. try again in a minute or tell us if you think we made a mistake.” when this first happened, I logged into my accounts using my friend’s phone, and the “ban” got lifted. when it happened for a second time, it went away the next day. It’s the third time right now and it’s been three, almost four days but the “ban” is still there. I’d appreciate any help or advice you can give, thank you!
Are they new accounts (the one that have problems)?
Hello! This information is very helpful, but I have a new version of IG and, when I try to wrote a comment/description for my photo, I get pop-up message like the screenshot in the point 6 (the Action Block), but there is just button OK or Report problem. I guess there is nothing I can do, is it?
And one more thing – I can senn my reviews, that i sent to IG in application, to my Support box on Facebook. This is strange.
Wait for your answer. Thank you.
Have you tried to hit the ‘Report Problem’ button?
Instagram is part of Facebook, so they probably combined the support under Facebook page.
Hi! Yes, I did it many times during past 3 days. Today I can even comment again. I have been unblocked.
There you go.
I am currently in the dog house for the second time. I have been sending them the “tell us” & “report problem” many times but I don’t get any feedback until now. The first banned lasted a week. I just like 2 pictures after one week banned, I got banned again immediately. I wish I read your post before start liking pictures. It’s really annoying. I have reported the problem again with no feed back again from them. I am really annoyed. what should i do now?
Nothing you can do but wait I’m afraid. Sorry.
I started using Instagress to like, comment, follow and unfollow (although I have now disabled the follow and unfollow). Yesterday I made the mistake of unfollowing additional people using an app called InsTrack and my unfollow limit decreased from 20/hr down to 5/hr within the app. Have you ever heard of this happening? Once you get a limit like that will it ever increase back to 20?
How did you even know that your limit was decreasing? I don’t think Instagram would tell you this.
InsTrack tells you. When If I tried to unfollow 20 people on the 20th it would say I hit a limit so I would always unfollow 19 at a time but now I hit the limit and 5 so really I can only unfollow 4 per hour.
I would wait, I think it should be back to normal.
Tried it again today. First time unfollowing anyone via any method and it happened again. It let me unfollow 5 people and then said I’ve reached my limit for the day and that I’m temporarily blocked from that action and to slow down. Not sure how I can go much slower than unfollowing 5 people a day? Lol.
Don’t unfollow anybody, for at least a week. I know you are doing some tricks there, but here is the thing, ‘regular’ Instagram users don’t usually unfollow people, and this is what Instagram takes as the normal parameter. Your actions (constant unfollowing) made you look like a bot. This is the way it is with Instagram today.
So, refrain from unfollowing for a week, or even more. Just enjoy Instagram like the others. And then try again later on.
I waited 2 weeks and tried to unfollow for the first time today. I hit my hourly limit at 5 unfollows and my daily limit at 10 unfollows and am now temporarily blocked from unfollowing. Do you think it’s because I’m using an app to unfollow? Do you think these limits are permanent? Or are all limits temporary?
I got banned i think i reached the limit of following people so how long it gona take this problem cause i cant follow anyone??
Please read my post again, I wrote the answer there.
I have been shut down after a week of use for an unknown reason.
I used a common set of 30 hash tags and had 100 followers after 1 week and was following 400 people.
When I tried to contact Instagram using their provided link, I got the email requiring my photo next to the hand written code. But when I replied to the email as instructed, I got this reply from Facebook.
Hi,
You’ve reached us at a channel that we don’t support. Please visit the Help Center to find answers to many frequently asked questions and up-to-date forms you can use to get in touch with us:
https://www.facebook.com/help
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Thanks,
The Facebook Team
I then tried using the method of reporting my account as hacked and got the same facebook message.
I have not started a new account.
Have you tried the form inside the app itself? It’s in the settings page.
I can no longer login as the account seems to have disappeared
Guys – I have zero idea why this happened to be and I am beyond frustrated. I am an interiors blogger who counts on Instagram to divert people to my blog – I have never done anything shady on my account, except maybe excessively follow when I just started the account – cos I was eager to get started! I was banned from both adding captions and comments plus I was banned from following anyone. The ban for comments and captions has been lifted ( but I still randomly get day long blocks for adding more than 3 hashtags plus something horrible has happened regarding the following ban- everyday this increases! For example – I get a pop-up saying you bam will be lifted on Thursday, then Saturday. Then Sunday!! Has this happened to anyone else? When will this get lifted!
All I can say is just be patient.
I want to get back to commenting on Instagram
How long has it been?
Hi! These days i can’t comment on some account post, only to that some account. I can comment normaly on others but not that other account and i don’t think they block me either. Every time i got the notice i alway press the “Report Problem” button but it didn’t do anything. I also tried to log out and then log back in also changing my bio, but it didn’t work.
Just be patient.
I have opened my instagram account few days back. It was going all fine. But from yesterday whenever I am trying to like any posts or trying to follow someone it is showing that your profile contains a link which is not allowed.I don’t understand and what should I do to fix this. Please help.
I also tried to like pictures which was posted by me, just to check, but Instagram is showing the same thing. Please help.
Try to change the URL in your profile.
Hello! I have a problem, I cannot like/comment pictures of my friends on Instagram, also cannot follow them. What should I do? How to resolve this issue?
When I try to like/comment pictures, it says: “It looks like your profile contains a link bunch of numbers in brackets. That’s not allowed. We restrict certain content and actions to protect our community. Tell us If you think we made a mistake. ”
Please, could you reply to my email kunalchakraborty2016@rediffmail.com and help me to solve my problem. Thank you in advance!
Click on the button ‘Tell Us’, and write that they are making a mistake, assuming that they are correct.
But Sir! I don’t see any tell us option there! :\
Can you help? I have been blocked from liking photos. It’s been a week now, It happened last Tuesday evening. Sometimes I notice that it will let me like about 5 photos and then it will go back to me being block. It says temp. blocked but am I banned?
I have tried changing my profile pic and bio, and password.
Just don’t do it for a couple of days, let it last for a while. Yes you need to be patient.
Hi,
I just got kinda banned from commenting. First I didn’t knew what it was until I read about the guidelines. No more than 20 following per hour. I just deleted 14 people to get to 20 people. after that I could comment again. Now I will pay attention how many people I follow per hour 😉
Great tips provides by this article to avoid getting ban on usinginstagram. I am also using instagram now a days and hope this will great help for me.
Once again my account was deactivated. Last time they put me back online and when I asked why I was deactivated they said “your account was disabled by mistake”. So I complete the form to say I disagree. And now I wait …. and wait!
Can I ask how long you waited the first time before you got your account back and did you manage to get it back again a second time? Mine has been disabled due to someone hacking me and posting inappropriate content. They emailed me asking for a photo and to write a code on a peice of paper and now I’m desperately waiting for their response to get my account back!
Why would Instagram delete my photo?
How do you know it was Instagram?
I can relate to this. my account which I have been building for about 4 years has been blocked about a week ago with no notice. They claim that I have been spamming and bascially that my acc is a bot account. its doing serious damage to my business as I do get a lot of requests through that account. Also their means to followup and get unblocked does not work. I am at a loss for what to do. They do not reply to their email and the form on instagram does not even work so wtf.. this new security bot is the worst thing ever, without prejudice, it does not differentiate between human and actual spam bot accounts
@Eric – I’m in the same situation. My business account just got banned and when I tried to correct the issue, they ask me for paperwork, but the app will not let me upload any jpegs proving the business is legit.
@Chris – In my effort to try new things to correct the issue I got a another error message saying that my IP is blocked for 2 days. Does that mean my account will be reinstated in two day? Or would you recommend saying I’ve been hacked. Help I’m preparing to launch a business and Ig is a big source of that strategy.
Wait for 2 days, and see how it goes. It would be good to know why you got banned in the first place.
I need help. I keep getting temporarily blocked on Instagram. I like around 30 pictures before I get blocked again! This is the 5th day in a row!! Please help
Just don’t do it for a week at least. Leave it cooling down.
Instagram keeps asking me to change my password I’ve changed my password like 6 times now. How many times does it ask you to change your password before Instagram disables and deletes your account?
Do you have any idea why they keep asking you to reset password? Are accessing your account outside your home country? or using different mobile?
Hello Chris,
Is been awhile which is ok am trying my possible best to be a good girl?.Pls I need an explanation for some days now whenever I tried opening my Ig accounts it takes a while, I just did the timing now it took 13seconds before it open which is strange my internet is working properly and my GB are up to date.
A very pleasant day and a great weekend?
When was the last time you reboot your mobile? Try to kill all your running app and do a reboot. If you are using Android, check your RAM, maybe you are running out of them.
Hello Our Own SuperB Chris ?,
Well am very good in closing running apps after each used an apple phreak 6+, with 128GB & still having left of 48GB. Before rebooting I notice everything is working good again, so I supposed it was something from Ig self.
Highly appreciate all advice & tips??
???
It tells me my account have got some sort of link and that they’re trying to protect their community and i cant like comment or change bio
Wait for a couple of days and then change your bio.
My account is banned by instagram… What should i do??
I want to get that account back
Did you read my post?
Bro I got banned by sending direct messeges
Ok, so?
I tried commenting on my own picture replying to someone, but I got a pop up notification saying I was temporality banned from using this feature. I’m so confused!? If anyone has had this problem please reply how you fixed it or what you did.
I don’t know what’s going on with my account because my account is gone I don’t know why and my girlfriend tried to look me up and now it says “Instagramer” and I can’t log into my account what do I do. My ig is yovng_relic
It sounds like you’ve been hacked. You can report it via form that I linked on this post: http://moblivious.com/instagram/help-my-instagram-got-hacked/
Hello Chris!
I just want to a report a problem I was getting recently:
Whenever I like, comment, follow, I get this weird message that pops up everywhere, it’s telling me to verify my account with a phone number, but I didn’t even start or verified my account with a phone number, I’ve lost my 16k+ account, I can’t do anything! I can still log in, & that’s the only thing I can do, is to log in, & log out, the problem is, it keeps happening to every account I create, seems really strange..
I’m so worried about that, I hope you have a solution to this problem!
Thanks.
This happens normally if you try to access your account from other mobile number or from different geographical places to the one you usually do. Or someone trying to hack your account.
The only solution is to verify your account with your phone number. Try to reset your password.
Thanks for answering!
I’ve both of them, it doesn’t work! It seems like it’s a problem from instagram itself..
Hmm, I’m working on something, my friend told me that this problem happened to him long ago, he believes instagram kicked me out, & I should be back after a week, but I have to delete the app, & be back after a week to get my account back. He says he got his account back after doing that!
So I’m trying to do that, hopefully it’ll work..
Yes of course Instagram kicked you out, that’s what I was trying to say. You can try reinstalling your Instagram.
I have an instagram account but I don’t have that number from which I made my account nd now I am unable to open my account as it is telling to verify!! What shall I do now
My account is asking for a verification and I don’t have that number from which I made my instagram id now what shall I do as I am unable to run my ig id -mausamkedia2
Have you tried the reset password link? I hope you have access to your email.
Hi chris. I’ve just creaed an account and when i want to leave a comment it says “base on previous use your account has temporarily blocked from this action this blocked will expire in 23 hours” what does this mean ?
Just that, it means you are blocked for 23 hours. You can try again the following day. And please don’t do what ever you did that made you got blocked.
Hi Chris, I’m having a strange problem – I’m gaining followers but my follower account inst going up… i also can’t see other users new followers. they just won’t load. never had this problem before. but its been like this for almost a week now. I can follow and unfollow but not the new followers of accounts.
I’ve tried everything – deleting and reinstalling, deactivating my account temporarily, updating the app… nothing changes.
Have you tried reinstalling the app?
Is there a limit as to how many pictures you can like in a day? I got blocked for over 24 hours. I was well under the 350 an hour but probably liked a ton over the course of the day. After my ban got lifted, I got blocked immediately after, after only liking 75 pictures or so. I was pausing in between pictures, too.
To be honest I don’t know. But c’mon, you know Instagram is so ‘fragile’, so just do everything in moderation.
I posted more than 100 pictures in a day (its a private with few followers in the family). Im not blocked but I cannot upload more pictures. In previous versions it happened and was able to continue 24 hors later. Its now has been 4 days.
Just keep waiting. And please don’t do that again, even if your account is private this doesn’t matter to Instagram. They will catch you. If you really want to just share private pictures with a handful of people, I would suggest using Whatspp, Lines or Viber. These messaging apps are faster than Instagram for sharing things.
I think instagram blocked my account, I was om it one day and it logged me out and when I logged back in it wouldn’t let me edit my bio or see the amount of followers or people im following. Please help me, its been like 4 days since that happened.
Try to reset your password.
thank you! I must have been doing duplicate comments or liking too much or following too much at once. And I think I’ve probably tried to edit captions too much. Honestly, I had no idea, I thought it was all good. Innocent mistakes I guess. Hopefully I will get unbanned soon. I’ll try to reformat my phone. I think it needs it anyway.
Hi Chris, I got action blocked because I followed to many account on Instagram. I clicked on the “if you think it’s a mistake” button but nothing happen. I there a way to prove I am not a bot ?
Thank you for your help
Instagram is really frustrating. In general the action blocked should be lifted soon, so you can wait for that.
There is no way to pro-actively tell Instagram that you are not a bot, the only way is to act like normal users, which means to follow Instagram guidelines.
My account got deleted because it says it was deactivated just out of no where and I ain’t even post nothing bad or nothing and now I can’t even make a new account or log into anything
What does it say when you create a new account? Did you use the same email to register this new one?
You can try to get your account back by reporting it that you’ve been hacked, the form to report this is linked in my other post here: http://moblivious.com/instagram/help-my-instagram-got-hacked/
Hey Chris I read the entire blog and followed all the tips mentioned in the comments. My Instagram had 112k likes that were all organic from my cosplay modeling. Yesterday I exposed a sketchy company and posted a screenshot with the name blurred out of one of the employees at the company on instagram… They immediately disabled my account after an hour and said I violated terms… I then log into my Facebook fan page and it is banned too. I did not even post any screenshots on it. I know to wait up to 4 weeks but have you ever heard of a big company reporting someone to get them instantly disabled? I know this company pays a lot of money for advertising to both websites.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t have to be a big company, anybody can report anybody that they have infringed some copyrights, at which point Instagram will take action very quickly (they don’t want to get sued). Did they tell you anything, whether your account is going to be reinstated, or not? Anything?
Hi, could you please let me know if you an instagram account can be blocked from searching hashtags. As I’ve currently come across this on my account when I’m logged into it. I use these hashtags and so do my competitors to, but when I search only my posts show when I’m logged into Instagram, but when I’m logged out mine and my competitor’s post show. Hoping you can put some light on this. Thank you.
Hello my firend,i really need your help. My problem with my instagram is thati can not folllow people anymore. I am blocked already 3 months, i don’t know what is happening. Can you help me? My instagram name is urban_shop_online
That’s because you are already following more than 7500 people, which is the maximum limit. You need to unfollow people to bring your following down below this number before you can follow anymore account.
Thank you for this article. I am new to Instagram. I haven’t posted on the acct for about 3 weeks so I tried to log in but could not. Requested to reset password, reset it and it still would not let me log in even with new password. I tried twice. Then I got this weird message: “It looks like users on your current IP address were going too fast and misusing this feature, so this IP been blocked from it for up to two days. Learn more about block in the HELP Center…” I am a middle aged lady who sews and crafts and I post benign craft photos and hadn’t posted in a while. What in the world? Thank you
Hi Kim, sorry that Instagram had ‘abused’ you like this. My only suggestion is to try to login again in two days time and see how it goes. Let us know if that doesn’t work.
Thank you Chris. I re-read that weird message that had popped up when I was having issues logging in to Instagram. I mean how ridiculous is a message that states “users on your IP address are going too fast and abusing it” so, I realized it has to be some sort of malicious hack/scam deal because the link to click in that message for help took me to Facebook which I knew better than to log in there. I got the heck out of everything on my phone. Turned it off then I went to Instagram on my pc and did a password reset through there and was able to reset it and got logged in so it’s all good. I also uninstalled the Instagram app on my android and re-installed it. I also did a virus scan on my phone so everything was ok and Instagram now working. Geez, I was jumping through hoops to get things right again. Thanks so much again though.
Glad that you get your account back and running again 🙂
Chris, you are amazing for helping so many people with your article and feedback – thank you! I have a message that starts “link not allowed” popping up when I try to like, comment etc…I can’t even change my profile details. All I can do is post pics and the comment is not displayed. I deleted the so, reinstated numerous times – tried everything you have recommended over the 2 weeks I have been experiencing problems. I have sent numerous reports, reported my account as hacked and they emailed back and forth but said they could not help me with this problem? The only think I think I did hat could have triggered it is followed 20 celebrities at one time. I have logged to Instagram on my computer and the message I recieve is along the line of – sorry if your account has been identified as spam….eeeeek! It’s been 2 weeks…is there anything else I can do other than wait? I never post anything offensive and don’t post very much at all – so this is so frustrating. Thanks so much for your time 🙂
Hi, i have similar problem to Kim. I tried to edit profile and then i saw this strange message: “It looks like users on your current IP address were going too fast and misusing this feature, so this IP been blocked from it for up to two days. Learn more about block in the HELP Center…” I tried also to change password and deleted app on my Iphone but it did not help me…. 🙁
Has it been 2 days?
I think i got blocked by instagram cause i posted 100pic in a day? I dont know there was a limit anyway. And now its been 48 hours i still cant post any photo yet. What can i do now?
You just have to wait.
Hi Chris Can you please please help me. I recently was asked to change my insta password which I did, I got an email with a verification email and a security code but before reading I clicked the link thinking it would take me to reset my password but it removed my email account! So when i try resetting password I never get an email! Can you help me? It’s not linked to FB either. Thank you ?
Hi,
Not yet. Just reset the password again and deleted app on my phone and i wait till Monday to try again…
Please can you help me. My account is disabled now 3rd time and i dont know why. i allways send paper with code and name and then account is reactivated after two days. problem is because i dont know why is that happening and what i am not doing good. maybe only reason i think maybe can be problem is maybe i allwayas in my posts use same hashtags because i want to use same hashtag belowe any picture i share. i think probably that shouldnt be problem. my question is how to contact someone and how to find out what is poroblem and what i doing wrong ???
thank you so much
Did Instagram say anything when they blocked you? Did Instagram give you any reason?
Hello, thank for your answer. No instagram didnt give me anything they just disable me, i send my pic with code and then they ractivated me in two days. If i can know what is problem to not to do that. But i dont know why they blokcing me. I looked at google for banned hashtags but i dont have that hashtag at my. I always use 30 hashtags which are the same and that is allowed. 30 hashtags is allowed.
Hi Chris,
Very useful suggestions on here hopefully you can help me. I tried to switch to my second account this morning (which is an arts one) and it said I had been logged out. When I tried to log back in it failed saying the password was incorrect – so I emailed for a password reset which I got, changed my password, and still it said the password was incorrect. I have since changed it twice and its still not working. As I cannot login, I have not received a message via Insta to suggest a problem, however, when I went through the Inst help centre earlier I was redirected to a Facebook page saying a temporary hold has been placed on it due to possible speed issues – this account is not connected to FB, I post 1 image a day at most, don’t use bots, and don’t ‘over-like’ reading your past comments. Is there anything else I can do, or is it just a matter of waiting a few days?
Thank you!
Yes, report your account get hacked. The form is at the help centre.
Hi Chris,
I reported the account as hacked, I now know through a reset password email I received via desktop that my correct email address is not being used to send the link, its a random hotmail one that is defo not mine.
I have been emailing a ‘person’ called Elliott about this with proof that my correct email was used when I set up the account – but he keeps coming back saying the email address is not correct and he can’t help until I give the correct one (which is clearly this random account). I haven’t heard back from him for a few days now, any advice or just hang on?
Thank you!
Gina
Not trying to insult your intelligence, but try to double check if the email you sent the ‘person’ is really the one you registered your account with originally. It would also help if you are actually using this email to do your correspondence with them (do you understand what I mean?).
Hi, I have a fanpage on Instagram and it will not let me tag the person in comments or posts. It’s been like this for a few days now. Is this somthing new or does it apply with one of your point above? Thanks:)
Do you often tag many people?
hi,
can you please help me.I cant upload any pics.anytime I try to upload it just says posting and nothing happens.i reported a prob;but no reply
Can you still do other things, e.g. like, comment, etc.?
i was just trying to log into my instagram account and i was told that my account was inactive. i dont understand why. i was just on it not to long ago. i havent done or said anything to anyone. thats what i keep getting when i use my laptop. if i were to use my phone it would tell me that, that account does not exist. what do i do?
Report to Instagram that your account got hacked. The link to the form is on my other post. Search for hacked instagram.
Hello Chris ,
Pls I sent u a mail few minutes ago through the above address , I will really appreciate it if u could go through .
Thanks In Advance
Betty
Hi, my acc just git hacked by yesterday. I already get my acc back by log in facebook. Before i had 300+ following 400+ follwers, but now i got more than 2500 follwing.But my follwing keep increasing i dont know why. I got temporary blocked by ig for unfol to many people. At first i got temp blocked for like 2hours(had it like 3times) but then i got temp blocked again since yesterday and still cant unfol. Wht should i do to avoid another hackers?cause i never logged in into followers gainers or other link that needed my ig acc (id private my acc too).And do u think when will i get unblock?
First, change your Instagram password, and your email password.
Then, go to your Instagram profile on a desktop browser, login to Instagram.com. Then check the list of third party apps that are linked to your account, revoke permission to any of them that are suspicious.
I have been getting the run around for over a month. I have a very old instagram account that I get the unusual activity on your account message. I have verified myself many times and the password reset link does not work; I reset the password and the same error comes back. I cannot log in at all and they wont delete the acct. What can I do to close this account?
Have you tried to report your account got hacked?
I thought about that but If I try to report it as hacked is it just going to remove that error? Another comment you provided stated the error comes from changing geography. Changing the password does nothing.
They will contact you and ask you to send them some credentials and they will try to give the account back to you. At least that’s what we hope.
Yeah in their opinion they have restored access to me. These are the responses I’ve gotten so far: “Instagrammers can request to have their password reset through the email address they used to sign up. If a person can’t access that email address and they didn’t link their Instagram account to Facebook, we’re not able to give access to the account.” Why the hell can’t they give me access to my account when they are the ones blocking it? I NEED THEM to remove the suspicious activity screen that is blocking my account. I just want it closed. This is so dumb.
Try to email them again, and tell them what you told me here.
Also, try to change your email password (it might be compromised) and do the reset password again.
Instagram keeps telling me they’re having difficulties when ever I uploaded a picture what dones that mean please help me out
Can you still do anything else, e.g. like, comment, etc.?
Hello thanks for the article
I had a message saying Instagram reset your password ! I honestly used one of those 3rd party services for followers and likes ! And when I try to reset password via email or sms it says enable
To fulfill request and
Try later Do you think Instagram blocked my account ?
Do you still have this problem?
hi my instagram account @mytanposh was blocked for instagram .
please help me to open it .
please .
how unlock it ?
Do you know why you were blocked?
i posted almost 100 post in an hour and now i cant even post anything anymore. What should i do?
For one, STOP posting 100 an hour! Are you mad!? Who’s going to look at them anyway? People will just ignore you and unfollow you straight away.
What should you do now? Just wait until the ban is lifted.
I did tell them several times, the problem is instagram help center cant possibly be monitored by a real person or is employing people who have no ability to actually help people. Every answer I get is scripted based on keywords in my emails. I don’t know who Elliot from Community Operations is but I’d like to speak to someone who isn’t a complete dumbass. Their gd website is blocking me and they have no addressed this issue at all. There is NO information on why it says unusual activity and these assholes wont delete my account. I reported it hacked. I imagine I’m goign to get teh same responses I have been for a month about changing my frickign password which has nothing to do with this issue. unfuckingbelievable,
Sorry that you are getting this crap. Unfortunately this is what Instagram has become for the past few years now, and it’s getting worst every day. If it could be a consolation, you are not the only one. I hope that you get the end of this. Let us know how it goes, I’m sure many people here would benefit from your experience.
Hi i think it is less than 350 an hour to like posts. I have been doing 250-270 just to be safe and its been working but two times already I received blocked temporarily for doing 275. not even to 350. I think there must be after so many likes in a day? Do you know if this has changed since you posted this? Thanks.
I haven’t heard or read anything different. But I’m pretty sure there is some rate limiting algorithm that affect individuals, especially if you keep maxing it out 🙂
Sir, I am tag my post to 4 persons regularly. But from yesterday evening I can’t tag one person. What is the reason and remedy. Thank u sir
Possibly because you get blocked by this person. Can you still see his/her profile? Tagging is really not a good way of doing Instagram. If you want that person to know when ever you post something new, you should tell them to turn on notification for your profile.
Yes sir I saw her profile I like her post everything even I used to my post @username she responds now thank u
My other IG account was hacked then i made a new one not even a week it has been and I’m temporarily blocked from IG from liking photos. How long will i be able to start liking photos?
From 4 hours to 4 weeks, depending on how ‘bad’ you were. Please observe the rules to avoid more ban.
HOW to activate my instagram disabled account? I am regularly updating with reports but they are not responding to my bug reports. Anyone help me out….
If you got disabled because Instagram thought that you broke their community guidelines then it’s going to be hard to reinstate the account.
Sir, i follow a person from 6hrs back i can’t view his activity from people i follow but sir i view his posts and i make comments everything only i cant view his activity for past 6hrs.what is the reason and remedy thank u sir
Sir, i am following a person all goes well but yesterday 8.40 pm IST i cant see her activity but at a same time i view her acct and make comment too.today morning i see part of her activity it shows her 2day back activity but it not show her 10hrs back activity.so pls tell me there is error in instagram or i want to make any changes.thank u i am waiting for ur valuable suggestion.
If you still can see her profile and see her gallery then you are not being blocked. I don’t know why you can’t see her activities. I don’t think there is anything you can do.
Hi chris
I have a trouble in my official account for my business, When i want to log in, there is a notification that says verify your account because We noticed some unusual activity on your account.
Now when I go to help center I can not find anywhere to contact with instagram, please let me know where I can contact with them or is there any email address to explain them my problem ?!
Good Evening Chris ,
I notice something few times now, when am busy on ig it goes off then I had to open the apps again , am using phone 6+ I don’t know what the reasons can be and most times I just lay off for some few minutes & back again to my usual stuff!
It happens few minutes ago now .
So appreciate all the tips and advices .
Have A Fabulous Weekend ??
Good evening Chris,
I am so sorry if am disturbing I just can’t get this out of my system, am having this problem too often and I don’t know the reason !
Just like I complained a week ago I just had the same thing again now and the past days as well, when am busy on Ig lets say 30mints the apps goes off & today when I try opening the apps it ask for mine password which I did, and now it happens again by switching off.
Have A Pleasant Evening
It looks to me that someone is trying to login to your account somewhere else. I would change your password immediately.
Omg???!
Good evening Chris ,
Wow I got cold just thinking about it , someone trying to login into my account, what a wicked world we leave in for someone sitting down somewhere & trying to destroyed all what have worked for ! Have change my pw immediately, Chris pls what would u recommended, meant how often do u think I should be changing my pw?
So so grateful hearing from u, I thought maybe ….
Thanks once more &
Thanks for all the awesome advices u have been giving to each and every one off us.
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Morning Chris,
Am sorry been a pain in the butt! & am not the only one here & it’s said prevention is better than cure, I was on Ig 06:19 -07:02 and it went off again? What can be the curse of this again ?
Excuse me once more .
Cheers !
You are not on holiday somewhere abroad do you?
Have you changed your password (and your email password)?
Good afternoon Chris,
So grateful for your replied. Well have been on holiday and back a month now! when they I never had any trouble apart from my robots fingers that got me in the dog holes!! and after few days it comes good after using one off your tips !
Mmm! Am having a new telephone number on the same iPhone , so what I did now I Change my phone number, pw & email pw right now .
Am so glad coming across ur forum cos u are indeed God sent .
Thanks??
Great to see that you are good again 🙂 I’ve been on holiday myself, so I couldn’t monitor my forum as much.
Welcome Back?,
I begin to imagin if our own Chris never take a break !??!
Well Chris I must confess the problem is still they, sometimes after 30mints & sometimes after an hour.
My prayers I hope never to loss my account & apart from that I just try to stay on Ig an hour or 30 mints when am free.
Thanks so much for all the tips & advices .
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i try to log in but it say ur username is not belonged to any username. but i still can see my ig with my another ig.i know my username n i cant be wrong spelled my username ig is djokam_ilyas did u think it hard
SO PLSS HALPPPPP!!!
I can’t seem to find your username. My guess is that either your account is hacked, or Instagram had deleted it.
Hello I REALLY need help, for the past three or so days I have not been able to change my username. At all. For some reason, of which is completely beyond me, I cannot change my username. My account is fairly new; I’ve had it for about a week, and I was able to change my profile and username until about three days ago. Every time I go to edit my profile and I try once again to change my username, I get one of two error notices. If the username I type in is already taken, and I will choose one I know is just to check and see if anything has changed, then there will simply be the “that username is already taken” in a red banner at the top. But when I try to change it to a name I’m fairly sure is NOT taken, I get a big error box that says something along the lines of: “that action was blocked, we restrict certain content, tell us if we’ve made a mistake..yadda yadda yadda” and I can only chose either the “ok” button, which puts me back to where I started, or the “tell us” button, that makes me fill out an irrelevant form that I have sent to no avail about four times. And it ALWAYS HAPPENS. I have tried to restart my phone on multiple occasions, and re-install the app altogether as instagrams “first steps” say in their utterly useless help center. I am AT MY WITS END. PLEASE HELP.
How many times so far have you had changed your username?
I have had my account disabled because someone else hacked into it and put up in appropriate content which I’m really upset about. Once disabled you can’t log in to contact them and I have reported it to Instagram via their help centre and they emailed to say I needed to send a photo with a code on, which I have done. That was on Friday and I’m still awaiting a response… I live in hope (although very little!) I have had problems with some of their online forms in the process too, once an account is disabled your username no longer works so it comes up as invalid on the form and doesn’t let you send it, which makes it a little difficult to describe the account with the problem. I also filled out a form which asked for my country of residence and everytime you write in it, it clears itself and goes back to blank and therefore the form cannot be submitted. I don’t know if this is just my phone having these problems or if anyone else has had trouble with the forms.
Ironically just as I was looking on your help feed I had an email to say my account was back reinstated! Very happy about this! And so happy I found this feed, thanks for all your advice.
How long have You been waiting to unblock Your account after You sent the photo?
Hi,
My account was hacked and started to following a lot of random accounts. Luckily, I managed to change password and it stops but I remain with more than 2500 random ‘likes’. So I started to unfollowing them but I got banned. So I report it to instagram and got verification code and sent them my photo with it.
I’m already waiting 2 days and still no response. How long it may takes to be unblocked?
I have been locked out of my account. I’ve entered the correct username & password yet it woo’t let me it. I have tried resetting my password several times with no luck. I want to contact Instagram but don’t know how to. Can’t find any contact links
Instagram doesn’t have contact number nor email address we can use. The best thing to do is to wait until the ban is lifted, or report your account had been hacked (there is a form for it).
Hi Chris,
I recently made an instagram account to sell my art. I hadn’t realized there was a limit and posted about 6 photos with hashtags (having to do wit the art). When I went to post again, I realized my hashtags were not showing up in search. This has been 4 days now… how do I get hashtags to work again? I went to help centre and searched “hashtags” and it said i had been blocked because of misuse. I tried to report a problem, but the link does the same thing yours is doing ^. I am devastated. Do you know how long the hashtags bans usually last?
Honestly, I don’t know 🙁 All I can advise you is not to use this hashtag for a week or two, and try again. Search it first before you want to try to use it again.
I were banned before 3 days or longer i tried everything as u said but nothing happend help me
Hi Chris, When I opened IG this morning I got a pop up that said “It looks like your profile has a link that is not allowed”! It seemed to be doing weird things, so I tried updating my website link in my profile but it wouldn’t allow me to! My account won’t allow me to post a photo caption below a photo. It just posts with a completely blank caption! And then if I try to write a comment below the post or follow and pages I get some strange pop up! Any thoughts on what I can do? I’m so frustrated!
What strange pop-up you got?
Hi there! I’ve searched all over for an answer it maybe you can help. I recently started a new page maybe 2 months ago, I post 2-3x a day, it’s linked via my device to my personal account. Two weeks ago I began seeing “couldn’t refresh page” on my account. The main feed I can see, but my page displays that to me and everyone else. I can post a pic, it shows up in my feed & others’ but not on my account page. I’ve done all the common sense things like password changes, reinstall, filled out the ‘report a problem’ multiple times etc. strangely I can see it on my desktop when I use a link. Any ideas?
I can’t follow anyone on instagram-it just won’t let me, and I don’t know why!! I started my account yesterday and followed 60 people and then it wouldn’t let me follow anyone else. I also have 42 followers and 5 posts, but it’s really annoying that I can’t follow anyone else 🙁 can you help?
You need to be patient. As new user your following rate is limited. Just wait for 24 hours and try again. Remember to follow the rules.
I keep getting people added to my followers list that I never added its up to 4000 already and Everytime I try to delete it it stops me and says I’m mis using the feature and it blocks me I don’t know what to do and it keeps adding people
Did you use some kind of bots? Do you remember registering yourself in some type of follower app?
No I didn’t , 🙁
I’m trying to stop this but I don’t know why I’m getting blocked from deleting people that I never wanted to follow
What can I do
Wow You really know a lot about this, I hope you can also help me. I ve been blocked to unfollow people. Maybe because I did a massive unfollow in a short time.
Do you know how long it will take to be able to use this function again?
After that will I be able to follow or unfollow people as much as I could before, or they will be more extrict with me about that?
And the last thing, do you know if now I’m on something like a list where they will pay more attention about what I do, or it will be just as it was before I was blocked to do that. Thank you 🙂
Nobody knows how long this bans last, you just have to try it every day.
After the ban you should be able to do what ever you need to do, but you must follow rules. Instagram takes note of people they have banned and notices if you are a repeat offender and do things accordingly, like ban you forever if you are bad enough.
Hi Chris, I deactivated my account at the beginning of last week for personal reasons and then decided to reactivate it yesterday. Upon logging in I was given the following error to the effect of “this username is not associated with any account.” Baffled at this I went to google trying to figure out why it would say that. Couldn’t really find much out except most people say it means your account was banned or deleted. My account was a private account (mostly because I’m not fond of how google caches images in their search engine) with less than fifteen followers both ways and more than 500 photos from a span of 2-3 years. I contacted Instagram yesterday after my google findings about the account may have been banned and all they replied was for me to send them a selfie with a number, my name, and username which I did. I waited all day yesterday but they never replied. Do they work on the weekends? Should I send another reply or wait and see what happens Monday?
I’m also always having issues with Instagram and Facebook giving me that dreaded “It looks like you were misusing this feature by going too fast. You’ve been blocked from using it.” while browsing the help sections of Instagram and Facebook. Yes, the HELP sections. In fact, I got that error on the Instagram help page right before I came across your site. What is it with that? I’m using my home wifi when I search whether it’s from my iPhone or my desktop computer. I have never understood how I can be blocked for simply looking up some information in the HELP section. Most of their answers are fairly short. Am I suppose to take a dedicate to read two sentences before hitting back and trying a new link? I’m not that illiterate.
And now I feel really illiterate because I meant to type “decade” when instead I typed “dedicate”. When you type too fast and think of one word but type a different one. Really, I’m not that stupid. Apologies!
LOL 🙂
Wow .. on a help page? Instagram is crazy!
No they don’t work on weekends, in fact I don’t think there is any human beings at the end of that email address 🙁
So, my advise is just to wait for a couple of days, and resend your reply again if you haven’t got any reply back from them.
Just out of curiosity, which form that you use to report your issue? It would be very useful for the others if we know this.
Yes, it always seems to happen to me on the help pages. Apparently, their system is still buggy and is trigger happy.
So since I last posted my message to you I’ve heard from Instagram and actually have gotten my account back [Sunday]. They did, in fact, reply to me on the weekend, but would only reply to me once a day. So I was very patient and polite and let them do their thing. My suggestion for others is if you know you did nothing wrong and can verify yourself – do so and be polite and patient. It’ll work in your favor in the long run.
They asked me for a selfie with a number, my name, and my screen name. I complied. Took a day. Then they wrote back, asked me for the email I used to sign up (not the current email on file!). I complied again and another day went by. By Sunday, they told me to log in and make sure all my info was up-to-date. And that’s all there was to it for my specific case. Took about three days.
Afterward, I did ask them why my account had been deleted but they were pretty cryptic. They said “they take deactivations very seriously” and most likely deleted my account for suspicious activity. I was going through something and had been deactivating it a lot. Now I know not to do that anymore and to let things ride.
As for the form I used; at the time I had no idea what was going on and was in a panic because of the whole “this username doesn’t belong to an account” thing so I used the [I was hacked form]. That seemed to work in my favor and it was looked into pretty fast. Considering they thought it had suspicious activity going on it was probably the right choice regardless. I’ve got my account back and I’m not taking it for granted anymore!
Congratulations to get your account back!! Consider yourself very lucky! And thank you very much for sharing your experience, I’m going to use your testimony (a success story) and update my post with it. Thank you again.
Hi, my hashtags don’t work anymore on Instagram and I don’t know what to do! Since the creation of my account 6 weeks ago, I’ve been using the same hashtags and got a high nb of likes. Yesterday, I changed only one hashtag in the list, and since then, my two last posts got a few nb of likes + all my previous posts are not visible when you made a search based on my hashtags. Could anyone help me please? I’m desperate as I don’t find any solution on the Web. Thank you very much in advance.
I had my IG account hacked(they changed the photo, bio, email address etc) luckily I managed to log in and change my password. I reported it to IG thinking they were sensible enough to realise I’d changed it all back to how it was but they’ve deactivated my account! When I try to log in and follow their ‘this isn’t right’ link and fill in the form to say they’ve made a mistake the form won’t work??? It won’t send because the last field you have to fill in asks which country you’re writing from but as soon as you click send it automatically deletes this field then says it can’t send the form with a blank field??? I’m at my wits end! I’ve initially done the whole email with the photo of me holding the code etc etc. any ideas guys???
Report it hacked again.
I continue to be blocked at least once or twice a week for a certain amount of days. I have no idea why. It’s getting to the point where I’m blocked more then I’m able to comment
Ease up with all the likes and comments, at least for a couple of weeks, let Instagram watchguard calming down. This is the only way.
Hi, I am not receiving my verification code, I have tried sending it via my phone and the computer, I have tried adding the country code, and when I try to log in on another computer it tells me the username does not exist. What can I do, I just want to prove I am a real person. My messages has no spam filter, or anything like that. My username is marvelous.max
Have you just created a new account? Why do you need a verification code?
It’s to verify I am a real person I guess. When at home I use my phone ir computer to browse IG …I’ve been on IG for months, but two days ago they asked me to enter my mobile so they could txt me a code, which I then could use to access my account again, but I’ve tried to send that code many times, both with and without entering a country code, but they won’t send me anything! I really hope you can help me with this ?
So can you or can’t you get in to your account now?
at long last…they txted a verification code after I txted all the available help lones, messaged the page on FB and asked you for help. So I am back in my account, I don’t know what caused the code to take so long to arrive, but I am glad to have my account back. Thanks for helping out everyone here!?
Congratulations!
Thanks for the post, I have no idea they were so strict! I started using Instagram a couple of weeks ago, and I set up an “If This Then That” (https://ifttt.com/recipes) recipe to allow me to push Instagram photos to my secondary Tumblr account when I use a specific hashtag. However, last week I noticed that all of my photos have been removed from hashtag feeds. Now they are getting almost no views. I’ve looked everywhere for an explanation, and Instagram support is non-responsive. Do you think IFTTT could have caused me to be mistaken for a spammer? Thanks!
It could be. Just take it off for now. Don’t use any automatic bots.
Hello sir. I am using instagram since last 4 month. I have facing problem of hanstag. There are no any hashtag work with my profile. Also my old picture is not showing on hashtag. I created my own hashtag but there are not showing only my post. I am facing that’s problem last 4 to 5 days also report instagram but not recived any answer. Please kindly inform me. How to solve that problem
You are probably having a temporary ban on using hashtags. Don’t ask me how long the ban will last, nobody knows. Just be patient and wait.
What about when your pics do not appear in hashtags? I read about broken hashtags and all but I am running two accounts and doing same stuff but had this problem with only one of the accounts. I reported the problem but hasn’t received a reply yet.
Hey Chris, thanks for the article. I had been using a bot, but did not receive any warning or banned/disabled notice. I simply got a “Verify Your Account” dialogue. Unfortunately, when I ask Instagram to submit the text to me, it’s never received. The number is correct, I’ve tried different formats of the phone number and even tried to create a new account with that same number and DID RECEIVE the text. So it’s definitely account specific. It’s been about 48 hours, but still had no warning or messages and simply can’t get past the “verification” page. I did a clean install and get the same error on other people’s devices. The account cannot be accessed and when logging in on desktop, I get “The username you entered doesn’t belong to an account. Please check your username and try again.” I continue to try each day and just recently submitted the ACCOUNT HACKED form. Let me know if you’ve seen this situation and I’ll keep you updated here.
Hi Mark, to be honest, apart from the account hacked form, I don’t know any other way. Unfortunately you just have to wait from IG to come back to you on that form.
Great article, thanks. I’ve read it twice now over the last couple of months. I do have a QUESTION: I created two new “foodies” pages, @ClearlakeFoodies & @PearlandFoodies . For each page, when I post a photo, I suggest that people can use #ClearlakeFoodies or @PearlandFoodies, respectively, in their posts and we’ll feature (re-post) their pics. The problem is that these two new hashtags “act” like a banned tag or blocked account. For example, with the first hashtag, when I search on it, it shows 58 posts BUT also “No posts yet”. Are you aware of any IG auto security feature which causes an issue with a single user posting and using a hashtag. I have seen ONE pic show up once using a different account and then later I couldn’t even find that. Any clue ?? THANKS!!!
For clarity, when I said at the end of my comment that “I have seen one pic show up”, i meant that I searched on #ClearlakeFoodies with a totally different account. Thanks!
P.S. LOL. i just spotted your “TLDR” comment at the top of the article. Feedback: it was NOT TLDR!!
Hi,
You have mentioned that the following limit is 20 per hour.What if I follow 30-40 every 3-4 hours.Would that be safe enough?
As long as you don’t follow more than 20 in one consecutive hour you should be fine.
Hi Chris, hashtags are not working anymore on my Instagram account since the 3 of September but my hashtags are not blacklisted. Apparently many accounts have the same problem. Do you know why this could happen? We are trying to contact Instagram but without success.
Hi Chris, hi Michele,
I’m having the same problem. Nobody can see my photos in the hashtag search (same for geotags). I checked all my hashtag and none were banned. I took extreme measures and just deleted ALL of them. I left only the geotags n my photos. Still not working. I’m waiting now….
I tried to contact Instagram through the Report a problem button, but no answer from them so far. I’m banned since the 7th of September.
Instagram deleted my account without a warning last night. There was no email or some instructions. It just said the username doesnt belong to an account.
I can’t log in with my email, i cant reset my password, reset by facebook that i have linked it with facebook business page. It said your account is not active. I just don’t know why. I tried to report as hacked and got reply, so i told them my issues but they havent answered back. how many days it will take ?
Sorry that you lost your account. There is no measurement of how long Instagram will reply, you just have to wait.
If your account is disabled is my account gone forever? And not how would I be able to recover it?
Disabled or deleted?
Hey there! Yes, instagram has gotten super harsh on their users. My account is 4 years old and yesterday I got blocked from liking. It was okay this morning but after liking 4 pictures normally on my feed, blocked again! What is going on? Can you recommend how to behave after this? No action at all? I don’t dare to touch the app anymore, so scared that they will disable my account that I’ve worked on for so long! Any tips and do they ever let me off the watch once I was on? Thank you for your help!
Yes they just super paranoid. Just wait for 24 hours and try again.
can you recommend a new app that is similar to instagram? I am so tired of this fear of getting deleted. I want to feel safe and have fun again. We need a new app…..
Try my favourite EyeEm.
I got banned from liking pictures, but dont get the ‘tell us’ button. Its either ‘ok’ or ‘report a problem’ and when i click on report they just say ‘thanks for reporting this problem’. I tried everything i read online but nothing is working.. I dont know what to do
Just wait for a while and try again. The ban should not be permanent.
Hi Chris, recently I was follow “banned” on my business account. Prior I was working to build followers by in turn following others (the coach didn’t mention a limit), it worked great! A week into it I was banned for a little while (maybe a few hours) I would follow 200 people at a time throughout the day, then I continued but of course slowed down and lessened the number, once again banned, then I read up on guides (I hadn’t found yours yet) and tried even more to fit the “follow limits” and now I’m at the last day of a week long ban. Now I realize I was still following more than I should (as per your guide) so here is my question: Is my next mistake to be banned for good? I’m going to take a break from the “following” and when I return I will abide by the rules you’ve provided but now I’m terrified to even follow a single person for fear of them deactivating my account or some nonsense. It seems like the regulations for tighter and tighter on how much I could “follow” with each ban so I’m a tad nervous to even try to follow 20 people in an hour.
Take a break for a week, don’t follow anyone, but don’t stop doing everything else. Keep posting, liking, commenting, but remember the limits.
Then after a week try to follow again. Maybe 5 per hour, and gradually increase it according to the limit.
And please share this guide to anybody who you think will benefit from it, especially to your so-called ‘coach’.
Hii, I’ve been temporarily blocked for liking pictures. It took 24 hours and when I didn’t see the sign I started liking pictures again. Now they blocked me again (I only liked around 5 pictures) can you give me advice what to? I changed my bio but that didn’t change the liking pictures block
Slow down, and just don’t do it for another day or two.
Hi Ibstagram has been playing ‘drop the followers numbers’ consistently for the past six months, when in parallel I keep receiving ‘buy followers’ messages in comments and also by email( my email is available on my Instagram page ) Is Instagram part of a scam?
I have been asking and complaining about this for months. Sometimes extra followers arent counted or the overall number drops when some one else starts following me. I had a drop of 11 followers within a second yesterday for no reason at all as my pics are well received and i post regularly and I follow whomever followes m atm.My repeated queries then complaints have fallen on deaf ears. I now find today that whichever hashtag i post for a given picture, that pic stays in the hashtag page for about thirty seconds, then disappears. In effect they are making me invisible. I have gone from 60 likers per pic to none.Of course no response from big brother. I do not buy followers and am a regular food and fashion photographer. This is insane. Any help/ shared story welcome. This is most unpleasant.
Welcome to the everyday live on an Instgramers 🙂 Don’t worry, you are not alone.
The drop on your followers are due to the effort that Instagram does to combat fake accounts. So don’t loose sleep about it because those followers ain’t no good anyway.
In fact, stop worrying about your followers, and concentrate on creating great contents, you will be rewarded at the end.
As for disappearing photos from Hashtag, this is also typical Instagram, they are tweaking their program on daily basis. Unfortunately we would never know what comes next. So again, don’t think too much about it. Hopefully it will work again soon.
Let me know if you need more help.
Hello I was hoping on getting some advice here my instagram app says that my account has been temporarily locked because they need to verify my information. It says to log in froma desktop to regain access but everytime i try to it refuses to do anything. SOS instagram is my child.
What does it say exactly when you login from the web?
I am unable to post pics from my account. Am I banned? I never rec’d any notification of a ban. I posted 3 pics yesterday morning and when I tried to post yesterday evening is when I rec’d the failed message. I can still like and comment on other post and I can post from my secondary account that I have linked. I’ve have went through all the trouble shooting tips and still nothing.
Do you still have this issue? Normally you would just wait for 24 hours and try again.
Ok I have a problem, None of my pictures are showing up in search, although im using only 4 tags, and none of those tags are banned. I see other users pictures poping up in search with same tags, but mine dont. i did try however posting 3 pictures in a row (1 minute) and i got asked to enter my phone, i did that 2 days ago, and i can post pictures with no problem, they just dont show up in search. I also tried opening 2 more accounts and posting same content, none of those pictures are in search. Could it be that they bannem my country for specific words? because I used 3 different connections too
And since i have 5 accounts on one application, it seems only my oldest account is not affected. I tried posting from newer accounts, last week, i cant post anything. I mean i can, but it doesnt show up in search
In my experience, new accounts have limitations, and this could be one of them. So basically, you need to prove to IG that you are a real person and not a fake bot. How? By keep doing what normal IG users would do. Hopefully IG will lift you out of the ban, in time.
Hi Chris I am a start up company and I opened an instagram account to promote my business. I’m just 20yrs old. I downloaded a gain follower app where you like pictures to get coins which will in turn enable you gain followers fast. I was disabled today.i wrote to if and they asked for me to take a photo of myself showing a handwritten set of numbers,my full name and username. I did but haven’t received a reply from them. I read an article which says that I’d be asked to show a proof of my association with the business. It is still a start up business and I have no documents associated with it, what do you advise. Secondly, when it is eventually enables, do I get all my pictures back? Because they are really important for the business growth. Please help me :(t
Hopefully by now you would’ve already got your account back up, and intact with all your photos.
One advise, please don’t use this kind of third-party apps anymore in the future.
Sandra did they reactivate it?
I have been having an issue for my instagram public account. I always hashtag my photos like i normally do. Within the last few days when i hashtag one of my photos it will not appear on the hashtag page. What should I do?
Not much to be honest. IG is constantly tweaking its algorithm. Let’s hope that your pictures will appear again.
I recently cant send any direct messages on instagram. I can like, comment, and even message a person back as long as they send a message first, why?
Could be because you’ve been DMing too many people, too many times.
Does deactivating my account often lead my account to be disabled permanently?
Yes if you do it too many times.
When I go out of town for business I don’t go to social media often so I deactivate my account few times. Will deactivating my account just once a year every time get me banned?
i deactivate my account once every year to make sure nobody attempts to hack my account while im out for long business because i cannot get in social media during that time. does this mean my account will eventually get banned although it wasnt a violation? i dont think deactivating your account is a violation since im just trying to protect my account. is deactivating once a year safe enough for my account to not be disabled permanantly?
Hi Sang, to be honest I’m not too sure, it might be depend on how long you are deactivating it.
Why don’t you just leave it on? As long as you take all precautions (strong password, don’t link your account to any third-party bots), I think you should be fine.
They disabled my account and never warned me of doing anything wrong. It was only open for 3 day and I followed a ton of people(not knowing it wasn’t allowed) and now I filed a hack on it so they would give it back. Do you think this will work?
Fingers cross.
Hi Chris. My posts keep getting shut down “because we received a notice from a third party that the content infringes their copyright(s)” It says I can contact the third party to try to resolve the issue. I would like to but the email space and rights owner is blank. Any idea how I can resolve this? Can anyone flag my posts like this? I do not believe there is any infringement violation. Should I fill out the DMCA counter notification form?
Thanks
Yes someone can do this to you. Unfortunately I don’t have any experience on this matter, so I can tell you much.
Is it the same photo that got the take down notice? If you upload a fresh new one is it ok?
I had some shut down and it said who the company was. I know they are an internet company that sweeps for copyright infringement. The others have no name to contact. I dont post any more memes unless they are cartoon and they seem to be fine. I dont post anymore real life ones of these particular characters cayse I dont want to get kicked off.
Found your article while searching solutions for my weird case! i was asked to verify my new account via cellphone and now nothing can be posted! Meanwhile it showed some error! i feel my account got trapped between validating and not. So no photos up for now! Any idea what to do? Deleted already the account and opened with same name and the same happens again!
Well, now that you’ve deleted it, there is nothing we can do to save it, unfortunately. And you can’t open with the same name either. You have to open a new one.
I got blocked by insta 4 days ago.I emailed them and they have requested me a photo and I sent it to them but still no reply of them
You just have to wait.
hi chris. so i got blocked three times by instagram from liking photos.
the first one is my fault (passed the limit)
the second one however, happened after i liked about 60 photos.
the third one happened after i liked 140 photos (counted it)..
so how does this like limit really work?
sorry if i made any mistake, have a great day.
You need to ease up. Once you get blocked, you are on IG’s radar, and the limit seems to shrink every time. So you need to slow down, maybe for a week, before you can do more likes you you used to.
hi, i am being asked by instragram for my phone number, to send me a security code. I have sent my phone number, but they never texted me a security code….please tell me what i should do.
Did you send the phone number that linked to your Instagram account?
thanks for your sharinh
I have an issue on my account. Its a newly made profile, and i may have been followed to many people at a time in the beginning. I have removed them again though. My problem is that my hashtags won’t appear on Instagram. If I press a hashtag while logged in, I see my posts. But if I use another account they won’t show…
I have tried changing my profile text, and linking the account to my facebook profile. I tried “report a problem” several times via the app – but no succes.
Any suggestions will be appreciated 🙂 Thanks
Hashtag problem is just normal thing in IG land. Unfortunately nobody knows what is exactly happening. It could be a glitch in IG software, it could be that IG is testing a new algorithm. Or it could be that you get temporary ban on the Hashtag that you are creating.
But usually it will go back to normal, you just have to wait for it.
I am disabled and i reported but nothing is happening i logged in and out, in reinstalled instagram but it doesnt work what can i do??
Keep reporting it.
Hi Chris, my account says No Posts Yet eventhough I have 37 photos. It has blocked all my followers. Please help!!
What happened? What did you do?
Hi Instagram is limiting my posts?!!
Hi Chris, I recently moved and had password troubles however I now have the right usernam and password but it won’t let me in. It’s says: “Verify Your Account
We noticed some unusual activity on your account. For your security, you’ll need to request help logging in.” none of the options are on the link. What can I do? I recently was asked to change my insta password which I did, I got an email with a verification email and a security code but before reading I clicked the link thinking it would take me to reset my password but it removed my email account! So when i try resetting password I never get an email! Can you help me? It’s not linked to FB either. Thank you ?
Crap. I must say I don’t know the solution if you click the wrong link in the email. It’s unfortunately really tough problem because you severed the link between your account and to your email which is the only source of identification you have. Even if you report the account to be hacked, you can’t recover it because that link is gone 🙁 It’s such a desperate situation.
I would almost just suggesting you to forget about this account and start a new one.
Sorry about that.
I’be been making a lot of instagram account because of these happend since I start make a new account I started liking and commenting and following people is always said I’m block for liking people and following people fast I always click ignored and no wonder my Instagram always disable please help me if I make a new one can I only follow people and post my own photo?
Yes make a new one, and this time follow the rule!
I have Instagram pages.posting maybe 3 photos max. And usually people follow me first then I follow back . They blocked me for few days
That’s strange indeed.
My acc got banned for liking posts bc I liked too many photos very fast. What can I do to stop the block earlier?? Please help etc
Don’t like too many photos too fast 😉
I just opened a new account last night. I have zero followers. I started posting a lot of pics about 95, but the next one after that just kept disappearing. I thought I reached a post limit, because every time I posted a new pic it would disappear so I stopped. But it’s been 12 hours, and I still can’t post new pics to my account. I have access to my account, I can login, change my bio, etc. but I can’t post new pics. I’ve sent 2 “something’s not working” reports, tried editing my bio and logging out, I even updated my iOs, and reinstalled the IG app, but can’t post any new pics. Also I left IG a voicemail, I feel hopeless. Now when I go to my IG and go to the help center and try to type something in the search field I get a “It looks like you were misusing this feature by going too fast. You’ve been blocked from using it” message. But I didn’t get any other message anywhere else from IG (only when I try to type in the Help search field). I need to complete my project by finishing posting my pics to my account, and I have about 100 more to go. Please let me know your thoughts!
You have definitely violated the community guidelines by posting those picture en-mass, and as a result you’ve been temporary blocked because Instagram thinks that you are a bot, not a real person.
My advice is ‘when in Rome do as the Romans do’, meaning do follow people, like their photos, write some comments. Basically all the things that normal Instagramers would do.
Do this for a couple of days, you need to establish a routine to tell Instagram that you are a real person.
Then after maybe 2 days, try to post again. If Instagram allows you to do it, do not post more than 2 or 3 a day!!!
Got it! Thanks so much! Super helpful! 🙂
My follower count is fluctuating
I’m getting notifications that people are following me but when I check my insights then there my followers are sometimes decreasing and sometimes increasing
I think this is because of fake followers
Can you suggest me that how can solve this bug ?
There is no bug, Instagram notify you as soon as people following you. Instagram doesn’t notify you if people unfollow you.
Yaaa but why this is happening
I mean large amount of people can’t unfollow at the same time
Yes they can if they use bots.
I can’t add any photos on instagram,it says “your edits weren’t saved,try again later” it happens everyday and i’m tired of it! i need to post everyday because my account is a fan account.
I’ve never seen this message before. At which point exactly that you get this message? Right after you upload the post? Does it happen for all post or just some? Is there a specific time of the day that it usually happen, or all day long? Does it always happen on the same location, or does it happen everywhere?
I was wondering what the hunt and destroy bot is. I tried to search the web, but can’t find much about it.
Never heard about them.
I for some reason am not able to post any videos on Instagram what so ever. I had just posted a video and appealed copyrighted music, it was successful and my 1min video was posted. However, now that I try to post another, the video will send, process and load, and in literally less than a second, it will be deleted. I don’t have the option to appeal and have no notifications regarding the issue. I’ve reported the problem 3 times and no reply for 3days so far. I don’t know if I’ve been banned but my gut is tell me I have been put on a temporary video block due to potential copyright music posted on previous videos or something. What I don’t get is that Others have and still post the same songs and they have bo problem. I’ve restarted the app, updated my phone and literally everything… no good.
Hi… Yesterday my instagram account was temporarily block for fast liking…. Now I can start like…. Now, can I continue like as normal… Or cannot…. Pls help meyh..
The key is ‘normal’, watch the limit.
Hi ive also been blocked for fast liking and now been blocked what do i do?
hey I just cant follow anyone – is this normal? I uploaded a lot of content in an hour!!
There you have your answer. You’ve just got temporary block. In Instagram, moderation is the rule.
Hello!
I contact you because my Instagram account hasn’t been working for the past few days. I did report the problem through the app several times, but I haven’t heard from anyone.
I (and other people) can no longer see my uploaded photos when I (and they) go to my profile through the phone app. It’s written “no posts yet”, even though I have posted 2,179 photos since I created the account. However, we can still see all the uploaded photos if we use Instagram.com.
I’m very worried. Have you heard of people having the same problems before? What shall I do? Do you know how long it will take Instagram to fix the problem.
Thanks!
Do you still have this problem?
Yes unfortunately I still have the problem. Nothing changed.
Sir,I have been temporarily blocked on the instagram 1 day before.
Till now,It’s like that only
Can you why does it happen?and when i will access it soon?
I’m trying to report an account impersonating our business but when I try to report it the send button doesn’t work!
I can’t upload photos on my in instagram account can you please help me.
my instagram says that it has been deactivated permanently for crossing the community guidelines. The problem is, is that they don’t even let me make a new one because it says “sign up blocked” or something about my connection but my internet is fine
I posted a guys bad motorcycle accident his body came apart. The next day my account is blocked saying I can’t sign on. kind of weird I tried to make another account on Instagram but no my cell phone my emails and my phone I.p address are blocked!!! I don’t deserve this I haven’t posted barely anything bad.
Hello
I followed your instructions and it worked!
Thank you
Glad I could help. Can I ask what your issue was and how you solve it?
I was banned from Instagram 3 weeks ago today for posting a 10 second video and there was a song playing in the background. It was up for 4 days and then all of a sudden when I went to post another picture on my account, I tapped on my app and it gives this message saying “we’ve disabled or removed content that you posted because a third party reported that it violated or infringes on their rights. To Learn more click here: ” but there is nothing to click on! There is an “OK” button but it’s gray and won’t let me click on it to acknowledge anything. 🙁 I am so upset because I wasn’t doing anything wrong and I’ve never been reported before! My account is still showing as active too. All of my friends can still see it and people keep following me even though I cannot access it. Is there hope for me? I’ve also reported the “something is not working” option a few times and no response (per usual). Will I ever be able to access my account again?
Have you tried the reset password link?
I did ? About 3 days after I realized that I was locked out. It still lets me log in, but as soon as I do, that message is all that I can see and it doesn’t allow me to click “ok” on it. I’ve probably sent 6+ messages in the “something isn’t working” option, because it even allows me to get to that on my app. So weird! I’ve been trying to read as much as possible on it but I just don’t understand ? My account is still public too. It won’t let me edit any of my settings or anything like that.
My hope is that your account just been temporary blocked, which means it will go away in due time. So hopefully soon you can use it again normally.
Thank you! And thank you so much for listening to my story. Ugh ? I’ll let you know how it goes. Thanks again!
No problem. I hope your account will be ok soon. Let us know how it goes.
Happy holidays, in 2 days it will be 5 weeks since my account says that content I posted has been disabled/removed, but friends can still follow my account and see all of my stuff. If I was getting blocked, why hasn’t my account been disabled? I guess I am just so confused by that. ? I keep writing to Instagram via the “something isn’t working” option, with no response of course. I’m starting to think that I’m permanently locked out but they are leaving my account up? I didn’t even do anything that constitutes this much punishment! It’s mind blowing. At this point, I’m just worried that they will permanently delete my account. Wouldn’t they already have by though though? It still lets me even change my password and everything. I keep getting “this is what your friends are posting” emails from Instagram every couple of days to my email.. I just cannot get passed the message about content I posted was deleted. It’s called “integrity checkpoint” or something but still won’t let me click “ok”
Courtney, sorry about your ordeal. 5 weeks is the longest time I’ve ever heard people get blocked by IG. That’s a nasty one it’s ridiculous.
So, are you saying that you can’t upload any photo at all?
It’s so weird because when I log into my account, the message automatically loads saying “we’ve removed and/or disabled access to content that you posted because a third party reported that it violates or otherwise infringes on their rights.” Then it says “click below to learn more:” and there is space for information but nothing is there. Then there is an “ok” button to click on but it doesn’t let me. Nothing on my account will load. I can’t even see my newsfeed. Everything says “error loading content” and it will bring me back to that page again. I’m still getting emails though from Instagram saying “look at what you’ve missed this week” and the email shows me my newsfeed! It’s so beyond bizarre. My friend thinks I got hacked and locked out somehow but I keep updating my password and it lets me. My account is still active and people are still following me and can see every single one of my posts. The only post removed was the one that was reported. I’ve reported the problem to Instagram through my account (because it still lets me do that) numerous times and I’ve never had any type of response. I’m so baffled. I wish you could see what the video was because you’d even be like “what?” lol it’s a bit ridiculous. Also I have never been reported before and I’ve had my account for 6 years at least
That sucks!
Can you login to your account on the web?
As soon as I log into my account from the web, it gives me the same error 🙁 so annoying! lol I just don’t get it.
I got blocked for going to fast whatever that means. ? i think i just want to delete whole thing fuck instagram! I can’t believe how ridiculous it is. I get so many people ask to follow me cause i am private account and you can tell they are the spammers! And me a normal person gets blocked! Grrrrrr
You got blocked because you have violated the guidelines (going too fast). This guideline works for those spammers too. So, just be patient until the block is lifted, and slow down next time.
I can’t get into my account because it has been locked because I need to verify my information I have done that but I still have no reply can someone help ??
I think i.g blocked me from posting pictures. Rn i can only post 1 pic at a time every 3 -4 hrs ithink. This is after i’ve posted lots of pics bec its a shop acct. I realized some of the pictures i posted didnt post at all its frustrating. How many pics is the limit per posting does anybidy know? ..when will this end. Wtf i.g
Didn’t you read my post?
Temporarily can’t like photo’s. I’m assuming I went past the amount. Not surprising since I’ve been using instagram alot more lately. I wish I would had known before… Would appreciate some feedback on what to do if anyone has any. Anyways i am still able to give follows for follows if anyone is interested my insta is: @forever_kawaii_ily
I cannot sign in it says I violated something. After reading this I’m guessing it’s because I didn’t have time to be real active when my kids helped me get my account set up. But now I would like to use it on my same email and can’t. Can my account be reestablish?
I wanted to say that you should try to contact Instagram to reinstate your account, but then thinking that the time you are going to spend (and wasted) on doing that (with no guarantee that it will be successful) is just not worth it. So, since you said you haven’t been doing much on the account, I thought it would be so much easier and less painful to just register a new account. Unfortunately you have to use a new email address for that.
If you’re logged out forcefully and can’t get back into Instagram at all how do you change your bio
Why can’t you get back in? What’s the error message you got?
I can not retrive my password like before. I usually sms to my numbet directly if i want to change my password. Now it says my number does not belong to any account. Am i being hacked or blocked?
It looks like you are being hacked. Report it to Instagram.
I think that some one of my friends used my fone and hacked my instagram then they delete it i have my pictures and i want my instagram back
Sorry, you can’t get it back. Once is deleted it’s gone. I think you should confront your friend.
Dear Chris, thanks for this article!
I can’t like anymore on instagram. It started two days after i started my account.. only for few minutes to an hour, wich was fine for me. Then I got blocked to like pictures for 24h and I read your article..
but nothing went to normal: after 24 hours I was able to like one or two pictures and got blocked again for a short time. It continued like that. Today i found out, that when i push the ‘tell us’-Button (sometimes one tim, sometimes a few times) I was able to like the picture again. So i started liking again.. but now I’m really blocked to like again.
Have you heard of something like this before? What do you recommend?
(I already changed my bio and post daily. I reported it several times to instagram, but never got a respond or email..)
Thanks a lot and all the best from Germany (and sorry for my English :))
Laura
Hi Laura, my advise is just ease out on liking, do something like, for example post some more photos, commenting on other people photos. Just calm down for now, and try to like again in 2/3 days. Remember. moderation is the key in Instagram.
Hi laura! Have you tried using “We heart it”? Is a community to share and like pictures. It is very fun.
How to unblocked my account
My account was deleted, I believe, because it had the name “insta” on the username. Is the only thing I can think of. After that happened, I checked and you can’t use url on the username, so I guess that was the problem. Anyway, now I am free from instagram 🙂
Hey, I have a weird question. Can Instagram track your I.P address? Reason why I ask is because I was using those third party free follower apps to boost my likes / followers and had 4 fake accounts attached to my real one. I never used my real account to do the liking or following other people, only with the fake ones. I would then use the fake coins I received in exchange for free followers on my real account. But lately, they caught on and all my fake accounts got blocked, not only that, every time I create another fake account and try to use the third party app, that app tells me that I have the wrong password & ususername but yet when I sign back into Instagram everything is all fine. Also, my official account cannot be accessed through the third party app too. It’s like they’ve blocked me from this app, yet they don’t own it, which is kinda scary when you think about it, they could essentially block me from using other apps too regardless of what it is.
Can Instagram track IP Address? Absolutely! All of the thing you described there are not scary at all, they are normal practices done by websites to ensure that security is tight.
By now IG would’ve know the IP of the third-party app and would block, not just yours but anybody who tries to connect to IG via that app. Essentially that app is dead in the water.
Please don’t use this type of third party app, not only that IG is banning them (they go against IG’s Terms and Conditions) but also because you risk your account get hacked.
hello,
sir on 13jan 2017 morning instagram send me a warning that u miss use.. blah blah. plz tell me why?? i am not doing any offence ndnow m getting scared that m block in future .. nd if m doing any mistake plz tell me.. so, i never repeat in future..
Did you do any of the points I wrote here in the post?
Hello, I have a question if anyone knows what it´s going on, I used to get 60 – 100 likes in the first 5 – 10 minutes after uploading a picture, using 30 hashtags. Now I get about 2 – 4 the most, I do realize my pictures arent showing on the hashtag feed, when I check from my account the pictures do appear, but with another account they are not there.
Any ideas why this is happening, its really frustratings it seems like im invisible to all the people.
My account is not private, I´ve used my account for over 3 years now, 30 hashtags per picture, I do not follow / unfollow people, post once a week and mayble 30 – 50 likes a day. Its my personal photography account.
Just to mention, I use the same hashtags as before with no results.
Did you put the hashtags in the caption or in the comment?
In the Caption.
Hi chris , my instagram account was blocked .. i can’t sign in or even sign up .. that was two days ago .. what can i do to retrieve my account or to create a new one
Have you tried to reset your password?
It appears a message up screen says ( i have problem in my request ) .. i every step i do to my old account user name until ( login error ) appears
Hi chris, I got banned bcoz liking or get liked too fast but I don’t know exactly which one caused it. Do you hv any idea how long it takes till I can use this feature again? You said the limit for liking is 350/hour but how about if our post get liked, is there gonna a limit as well? Thanks
There is no limit when other people do something toward us (liking our photos, commenting, etc). The limit works against our own activities.
How long does it take for you to get the feature back? I think I’ve answered it in my post, usually from 4 hours to 4 weeks.
My instagram has been blocked from posting. How long would it be blocked; and is there a way to unblock it?
Thank you
Please read my post again.
My ex got her sister to report my page because I broke up with her. I never did anything wrong, but yet, my account still got deleted by instagram. And now I can’t even make a new account. it says, “sorry there was a problem with your request.” what can i do?
Sorry about that.
How did you make your new account, did you try to use the same username or email address?
Apparently I liked my friends photos too quickly. And now I am blocked temporarily to like any photos. How long should I wait? Should I not log into my account at all for a specific amount of time?
Please read my post again.
Hey I can use all the functions on Instagram such as liking posting etc but it doesn’t let me DM anyone that hasnt dmed me before now it gives a red exclamation mark as though message failed to send it’s been over 48 hours
Hi Chris, can you help me? I wasn’t blocked, but for some reason my photos never show up on the hashtag search pages for people who aren’t already following me. (If I click a hashtag, I’ll see my photo there – but I’ve asked other people who aren’t following me to do it (I suspected because I’m never getting followers), and my photos don’t show up. Any ideas? I can’t get help from IG so I’d appreciate any advice! PS – I use fewer than 30 hashtags, no banned ones, my account is public, etc.
Are you using a popular hashtag? You could try to create your own hashtag, so it’s only your photos in the page, and ask for those people again to take a look at it.
chris
I was un follow the peoples on my page suddenly, a message shown that you are misusing.Now un follow button is not effective now.
So just wait as I said in the post. And don’t do it again in the future.
Hi, I got blocked 1 week ago for sending private messages. It says I am temporarily blocked and can not use this tool anymore. Will this be permanent because I never got blocked for so long and instagram does not lift the block
Usually it comes back after some time. Unless you were really ‘bad’ misusing the DM feature.
my account has been disabled, sign in blocked. can i get back my account?
Do you have any idea why you were blocked?
I’ve fought and cursing someone accidentally
I got blocked from IG today and my account was deactivated. What do I do?
Did Instagram tell you you why?
No they didn’t? They deactivated my account and blocked me with out a word why?
Has anyone ever blocked a user but then the user no longer shows up in their blocked list, although their profile is still active on instagram? If so, what does it mean?
I can’t see my profile even though I’m signed in. I’m getting a error message couldn’t refresh feed. Am I blocked? Also my other profile is fine
Hi,
I have just been temporarily banned from sending direct messages “you were misusing this feature too fast” has this happened before? and will it only be a 24 hr block?
i cant unblock someone that sadly I block and unblocked many many times (sadly). it says user not found yet they still have an active account. After unliking many pictures I had once liked–instagram had said I was blocked from using that feature. I’m confused. It all started with me unliking photos I onced liked.
Please read my post again. Especially the part where I say ‘limit’.
Hello Chris I am an artist and I post pictures of my work nothing explicit or bad. I have receivied 2 emails that my account will be delete because they have received 3 repost that I have violated ToS. how can I avoid getting my account terminated
Great article, btw. My account hasn’t been blocked but my followers counter has been stuck for yonks. I’ve sent to ‘problem reports’ and haven’t heard back from anyone. Any suggestions Chris? Thanks.
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Hi Chris,
I just started my IG acount 2 days ago and posted 150 quotes, I all wrote by myself and got a lot of positive reactions from the community and my friends. I wanted to start with a bunch, so I can slower the frequency to a daily 10 or something.
But since yesterday night, everytime I try to post a picute, it disappears after 2 seconds.
I didn’t recieve any PopUp message or something and people can still follow me and lile my pictures.
So I tried a refresh of my iphone and reinstallation of the app but it still doesn’t work.
I also wrote to the IG support, but didn’t get any answer. I also tried to post from another device but the problem was still there. Do you know what this could be? Is there a limit for postings?
I would be really supersad if I already got banned or something, since I just started to get creative 🙁
Cheers.
Did you not read my post? You’ve posted 150 photos in 2 days!!! Of course you’ve got blocked. Why? Because that what a spammer would do.
I said start with 10 photos on the first days, this is what normal people would do.
Just take it easy now, the ban ‘hopefully’ will be lifted in a few days. When it does, start with 1 or 2, and gradually going up.
We have hundreds of new people liking and following our site per day (700+) and we are trying to private message some back and it has been temporarily blocked for too fast actions. We have only private emailed 120 followers today before being temporarily blocked. Can you help? What is wrong? what have we done wrong please and how do we avoid it again
Nothing you can do about this limitation. Don’t do it too many times too quick. Moderation is the rule of Instagram.
Chris,
We got unblocked a day later and then sent 5 more PM’s before being blocked for fast action again. Do you mean, send PM slowly- say a minute or so between? Rather than the number of messages- worry more about the speed we write to our followers? Thanks so very much for your help- we are not trying to do anything wrong and only talk to our legitimate followers after launching a book
I think for now consider to do it one per hour, at least for a week or so.
I’d like to discuss with you the limits cited in this article: https://elfsight.com/blog/2016/12/instagram-restrictions-limits-likes-followers-comments/ – I’ve seen larger figures, too, but they were in older articles. Right now I’m running their method on test accounts, and everything’s been fine for a week (only one new account has been banned, but it was accidentally listed with the trusted ones). Do yoг think I should apply these limits to the main profiles?
Good article, thanks for sharing. If you think you are ok, and you’ve done your thorough testing, by no means go for it.
Hello Chris,
I am writing to you because I have a problem with my professional Instagram account.
My publication is in the “Best publications” of some # I used (For example: #bnw)
However when I look with another account (a friend’s notebook) in this list of “Best publications” my publication can not be found.
This situation makes my page hardly visible. I am almost in the position of a private page …
So I noticed that from another notebook my publications no longer appeared in the # I use.
Can you explain to me what the problem is?
Regards,
This has been a widespread issue for many people. Unfortunately I am not sure what happens. My guess is that Instagram is trying out some rules. We just have to wait.
Whenever I go to instagram help centre I’m being warned that ‘generic karma user warning’ what does that mean?.
Hello there, I do not even know if I am temporarily blocked from Instagram or not, because I received no email nor pop up message claiming so.
One night I was opening my account and it asked me to verify my phone number, and then it asked me to put the 6-digit security code. But I never received any text from Instagram. Almost 2 days have passed and I still cannot access my account. It is actually an astrology account with more than 28K followers and I am usually very active on it.
I tried reporting the problem several times from my personal account, as well tried calling them (they never answer) and I reached the level where I emails the CEO of Instagram. But I got no reply, and no text message and I do not know what to do.
Has anyone faced a similar problem? I noticed that in most cases you guys get blocked but you can still be in your account. My case is different, I can’t even go in. However, my account is not yet disabled.
I will appreciate any help! This is really depressing.
Did you try the forgot password link?
It been more than 4 weeks that am.not able to like posts and follow
It always says that my profiel contain a link 103.24.127.35 which is not allowed. It also says that they restrict certain actions and content to protect their community
Why is this happening ? What shouls i do now ?
Does/did your profile contain that URL?
What happened to me was, all of a sudden I couldn’t log in. It kept saying the password was (it wasn’t), so I did that “get help signing in” thing which always worked be fore. Nothing. It asked for username for pw reset. Tells me my account does not exist. Try email reset, it tells me it cant do it right now. So I make a whole new account and when I try to tag people to tell them, it lets me do a few, then tells me I can’t and also can’t caption my own posts or comment on other people’s. Apparently that makes me some kind of danger to the community, lol. Meanwhile I see pornography, racism, and pedophilia all over instagram, but they’re not danger to the community? I didn’t do anything listed here that I remember on my first account that would make them think I’m a bot, and it’s kind of hard to report anything when you can’t get in. I submitted several help requests and nothing, so I tagged instagram (which worked once when they kept removing one of my videos) and still nothing. I was nice at first and after no help I got snippy, and there’s no way they could have mistaken me for a bot, lol. I don’t even know if they banned me or someone hacked my accounts or what. I did have some conversations with some people who were not very nice right before this happened. Is there a way to tell the difference between being hacked or banned?
Can you still see your account (from your new account or from the web)?
I’ve been blocked from changing my instagram handle after my nephews took my phone and changed it a couple of times as a joke (not funny!). Now I’m stuck with a handle that I don’t want but can’t change.
I used the “report a problem” and sent the full story and still no luck. Do you have any idea how long will this last??
I get this message when I type ‘live’ in the help search: It looks like you were misusing this feature by going too fast. You’ve been blocked from using it.
Learn more about blocks in the Help Center.
If you think you’re seeing this by mistake, please let us know.
What! 4 weeks. Oh no. I’ve deleted my old account and wanna make a new one but it says this action was blocked.
I’m temporarily blocked from Instagram for liking too many posts too quickly and I can understand how that may look incriminating. However Ingram would have investigated the majority of the posts more closely they would have realized that I was liking my followers posts. I have over 700 followers and everyday I take considerable time to go through they’re posts. I should say that these are the people who follow me that I don’t follow back but I still appreciate their support and actually prefer it to my main feed because I can actually see their whole body of work ( which is primarily art) and see how they progress.I will start artists whose work I really like or see potential in or are very supportive and engage with me ( which I really appreciate) but will not follow everyone. Sorry I’m rambling but I just want to tell you this to explain what I think happened.so. I usually try to do this everyday but missed a couple of days so I had to rush through my followers and like and not comment. This with my feed and the hashtags I follow. I think is the reason and I’ve written a couple of comments explaining this to them in the “something’s not working category and hope that they will unblock me. Mostly because I love I interacting with others in my on Instagram and have made some great connections with other artists from all over the world who are passionate about what they do. So to be blocked under suspicion of criminal activity seems ironic and feels awful. If there is a quicker way to resolve this other than would had been posted I would appreciate it. Thanks
Don’t waste your time to justify yourself, IG is not listening. Unfortunately the only way to do this is to follow their rules.
Hi. I also wanted to thank you for posting this helpful guide.I think I’ve learned a valuable lesson on just how intolerant Instagram can be and that I will have to like less in the future. I also know that I will have to wait for a bit to get my account to be unblocked so I’m not expecting any response on my previous comment. I guess I was sharing. Thanks again
It says I can’t make any new accounts, I can’t log into my main one but I can into my gaming one. I did nothing wrong on my main account but I guess I don’t post too much. Is that enough to get me banned so much that I can’t even log in? Please help if you know how to get back in.
Do you know why I would go from getting 60-80 likes per post to barely getting 1-2? Any way to fix this?
Cek if your hashtag is visible from non-follower.
I just added a post and do not see the post when I check for the hashtags on an account that does not follow me. What next?
Hey David.. did u get the solution.. m also getting the same problem
Please help Chris,
I am blocked from using @mention or tagging (I do this once or twice a day) whenever I like a photo. I’ve never been a heavy user. Am trying to engage with my followers but afraid to do anything but look at Instagram. It seems even a single action has me receive the generic karma warning and god forbid I like three things within an hour. Total lockout. I’ve never spammed, bullied, botted or plagiarized. Why insta so strict with me? Did a competitor flag me from spite to cause trouble? I really don’t want to close my account and start over as it was integral to my business but it’s become practically useless.
Me too and my captions disapear when i post …
Idk if its a bug. I am not getting likes even using popular hashtags. My posts are not visible to people it seems. Privacy is off. Thanks for Any help
I was banned for ‘using it too fast’ was the wording. But…I don’t even HAVE an instagram account and cannot get on my one person I follow to see the pictures?
What happen to my Instagram? Can’t like or comment?
I can’t comment. When I try I can only direct message. What’s up with that?
Hi. I’ve been dm potential customers on ig. My account still works but my dm fails. Out of 30 dm, 15 goes though and 15 doesn’t. Im not sure if Im banned or why my dm fails. Please help. Much appreciated.
My account has been blocked for posting a hashtag with my ads. Now my posts are not displayed in any category.
What can i do for resoulve it?
I think I have been shadow banned – I uploaded a pic to my story with the comment “is @instagrams video quality shit now?” and since then I cannot upload anything to my story do you think I have been shdow banned? I have tried deleting app, loging out, even reset my phone. fml..
i did nothing wrong so can you open my page because it is now blocked and i can’t come on line to see my messages.
this is the message i’m getting every time try to long in.{ This account showed suspicious behavior or broke our community guidelines. If you believe this is an error, please contact u.it has been weeks since i have been to my acc because of this,please can you fix this.i’v dune nothing wrong.
Myself has been banned a few times for uploading photos on Instagram in the two and a half years since I joined. I have been in the longest ban since last Friday 21 July 2017. Since this date everytime I upload new photos they are deleted by Instagram seconds later. I am not happy with this. I send Instagram emails and they never answer them. Please help me to uplift my ban too long.
Myself has been banned a few times for uploading photos on Instagram in the two and a half years since I joined. I have been in the longest ban since last Friday 21 July 2017. Since this date everytime I upload new photos they are deleted by Instagram seconds later. I am not happy with this. I send Instagram emails and they never answer them. Please help me to uplift my ban too long. My Instagram Username is: jpkevanlondon
It says “Instagram sign up blocked”
Hellow. I think I got my instagram blocked to start new conversations, do you know how many I can start per day/hour? I use instagram to promote a healthy lifestyle, and sometimes I contact a lor of people.
My account is not reaching to my followers and day by day im getting less likes. It has been many days that I’m facing this problem. Pls sir tell me how to unblock my instagram account.
It will be great help for me as my business is getting affecting because of this.
My account @amandakohar has been disabled without any warning. ANd instagram didnt reply my message until now. Can someone help me with this. I’m so deeply sad. Already using it for 4-5 years. Its just crazy
i need your help.I dont know why my instagram not works suddenly without giving me any warning but then i see my profile bio my telegram link was removed from my instagram i dont know about this news that instagram block telegram & snapchat link
My app faces this problem
1 my activity feed you section won’t load
2 my profile bio is not being edited
3 when I am try to private my account than it shows network error
Anyone have any solution for this ?? It almost 6 days I have facing this.
Hi! IG just blocked me from commenting and i would like to know when will it be resumed again as i am getting thw community message whenever i try to comment rest my id is weking perfectly!
Hi! I just got my comments blocked from IG and it is showing the community message. I want to know how long will it take to get restored and what to do now! Thank you
I can’t like any picture, it says, ” action blocked” when ever I try to like any picture. And I haven’t liked any picture for at least an hour
it seem like I am permantly locked out the instagram app. I know my account was disabled by instagram a few weeks back and even when I try to create a new account instagram wont let me sign up I keep gettint the message saying your account has been disabled for violating our terms. Its not even saying sign up blocked. Please Help.
My posts aren’t being categorized in any hashtags what can i do ?
Hi,
Have you already heard about the following: after having checked too often a profile on Instagram, I seem to be blocked (I cannot see this profile anymore) although the person told me he did not block me and I am not in his list of blocked persons.
This happened 2 weeks ago and I still cannot see this profile anymore.
I had a medical marijuana prop203 profile and the banned it…
thanks!
Hey guys!
I opened my food page on ig and for about 1 month eveything was pretty well with likes and followers. But since last week I can not edit my descriptions from my photos. They dont let me doing it at all. And I want to ask you, in case you confronted with this prob, how long will take this crappy thing..??
As I just logged out my account.
After that I wanted To log it.
It just showed that
sorry, there was a Problem with your request.
please resolve my problem.
Help me
Thank you.
I had 34k followers over the course of 4 years with no reports, then all of a sudden they close my account in October 2017 by “mistake”, reopen it, I get reported 5 times in a row and they shut it down.
Thanks for sharing those useful information! I am not banned from any hashtags or any actions. But my engagement is really low. It’s under 2 % sometimes and I have over 26k follower. Is this a punishment for using a bot long time back for a short time or is it just inactive users?
My 60k account was disabled for no reason. They said I violated their terms but I don’t remember doing such. Appealed and they made me send a picture of me with a handwritten code, after almost 48hrs later, I got a message saying am ineligible to use Instagram so they can’t restore my 60k account, please I badly need my account back, someone help me
Instagram booked me from pressing like button , how should I do
please can histagram disable my account because of dm I sent to people, because most times I send the same dm to all my friends, I just got a warning message
It keeps on saying sorry there was a problem with your request
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