I’ve been wanting to check a specific message my teen sent without the little ‘seen’ appearing, but I know Instagram notifies them. I tried turning off Wi-Fi and data before opening, but it still marked as read somehow. Is there a reliable trick to peek at the text or preview from the notification without triggering the read receipt?
Yeah the airplane mode trick used to work but Instagram patched that a while back — it’s pretty unreliable now. Honestly for monitoring a teen’s DMs consistently, something like Bark or Qustodio is way more practical since they flag concerning content without you having to manually snoop message by message. If your kid’s under 16 or so, just setting up a linked family account on Instagram itself gives you some visibility too without the cat-and-mouse game.