Replying to Instagram Comments, and Messages

Social Inbox helps you manage conversations on multiple social media platforms by letting you access them in a single space so you can reply to them in real time.

All messages, comments, and mentions received on your Instagram Business Page can be viewed in the Social Inbox section of your Ready Social dashboard. In the main Inbox page, you can access your Instagram Business Page, which is connected to specific custom inboxes, allowing you to see targeted conversations from your audience. 

First, you'll need to activate the Instagram Direct messages - here's how to do that.

Here are the actions you can take through Social Inbox for your Instagram Business Page: 

1. Media Post Comments

• Reply, like, and delete comments.
• Reply to comments via DM.
• Cannot add images, GIFs, or videos in comments.
• Instagram does not support showing comments with multiple images.

2. Tagged Posts

• Users receive notifications about mentioned posts.
• API limitations may prevent access to full post details.
• Cannot respond or react to the mentioned comments from the Inbox.

3. Collaboration Posts

• No notifications or updates if the user is not the creator.

4. DM Messages

• Like messages
• Share videos, images, emojis, and GIFs.
• Cannot reply to specific messages.
• 7-day limitation to reply to DMs.

5. Profile Details

• Available details: Profile picture, user ID, and profile link (if sharing is not disabled).

6. Story Mentions

• Users receive notifications via Instagram DM.
• Cannot reshare stories from the Inbox.

If you want to know how to create custom inboxes to manage conversations, click here.

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