The primary inbox is the only inbox that you will automatically receive notifications for. If you have a professional account, you'll see three options: Primary, General, and Requests. (If you don't have any message requests, this notification won't show up.) With regular accounts, you'll see if you have any message requests by toggling to your messages, and clicking on any 'message request' fine print at the top of the page. Your Instagram DM inbox will show up a little differently depending on if you have a regular or professional account. Keep in mind that to ensure that messages that you do want to be notified about are not hidden, you'll want to check your inboxes regularly. But since you probably want to know who's sliding into your DMS, here's how to get acquainted with your inboxes so that you don't miss the messages you do want to see, and can easily delete the messages you don't.

Since Message Requests don't trigger notifications, they may go unnoticed for quite some time. people who are likely strangers or potentially bots or scammers. Instagram's special filters are for messages coming from accounts you don't interact with, i.e.

Not familiar with Instagram's Message Request inbox? The feature is not dissimilar to the 'other' inbox on Facebook - you know, the place where you find long lost messages from distant relatives and people you have no mutual friends with and maybe met at a bar in Before Times. Despite how many notifications you might have enabled on your phone, there could be more hiding in Instagram's secret inboxes.

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