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Instagram's new sidekick, Threads, is fast establishing a user base. As much as people would like to attribute all its exponential success to Twitter's decline, the truth is that it's Thread's connection to Instagram that has largely led to the swarm of users (more than 100 million of them) migrating to this new hive in less than a week.

If you're unaware, Threads requires your Instagram account to get started. And since you don't need to create a separate account, getting started is a matter of seconds.

However, using your Instagram account for Threads adds a badge to your Instagram

Your activity status on Instagram shows people when you are online or when you were last active on the app. You can turn it off should you choose to do that, and there will be no indication whatsoever on Instagram whenever you use the app. However, it's a two-way street; you also won't be able to see the activity status of anyone else in the app.

Usually, the process is straightforward; however, Instagram seems to have buried the setting deep under the 'Messages and story replies' section, making it difficult for people to find it.

If you have also been

To make our Instagram profiles look the best they can, we tend to delete some posts that are not up to the mark. But have you ever had that "oops" moment after deleting an Instagram post that you feel you judged too harshly, and now you kinda wished you hadn't? Well, wave goodbye to those regrets! Earlier, once a post had been deleted, it was lost forever. However, that has not been the case for quite some time, but there's a chance that this feature never got on your radar because it's buried somewhat deep in settings.

Instagram features a

Who even texts these days? These days, it's all about sliding into Instagram DMs and sharing memes and reels with each other until one of you eventually stops reacting to them.

Talking about DMs, have you ever wished there was a way to read your Instagram messages without the other person knowing you've seen them? While you can always see the messages from the notifications, if you need to see something in the chat, there's no way to do it without opening it. But, as luck would have it, there's a hack that lets you open a chat on Instagram