In this article, all you need to know about how to half swipe on your Instagram account. We all know that Instagram is one of the biggest apps of our generation. Even after being the leading social media platform, it keeps evolving with new features coming in every month, sometimes even a week.
Though it started as just a photo-sharing app, it now has almost all forms of media sharing available in it. And, it’s not limited to just sharing media. It also has texting, reels, filters, and a lot of features that make connectivity in people’s life more easier and convenient. Sometimes, it includes stalking.
But, not being seen is the whole point of it, right? Well… how about half-swiping? If you don’t understand what the questions are all about, don’t worry. That’s exactly what we are here for. In this blog, we’ll take you through some of the most common ways to understand how to half-swipe on Instagram.
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Understanding The Half Swipe Thing & How To Do On Instagram
The half swipe method is a simple yet powerful trick that allows you to navigate through different content on Instagram seamlessly. Unlike a full swipe that requires releasing a finger and fully opening the content, a half swipe allows you to partially interact with the content.
It helps you to do things and not be seen, for example, reading Instagram messages without them getting marked as seen. It allows you to view multiple content at the same time on a single app.
Let’s see some different ways of how it’s done.
Viewing Instagram Stories Secretly
The most fast-paced content status and content-sharing feature of Instagram that makes Instagram so attractive is Instagram Stories. Here’s how to stalk someone’s Instagram Story to find the photo or video or text that you want to view without letting the uploader know:
1) First of all, start at the top of your feed and start to view the Instagram story of anyone but the person you want to stalk.
2) Now, to view the next stories we usually swipe left, and then your view gets registered on the server.
3) But, here we have to do something called partial swipe. Following the same, do a gentle half-swipe left motion. As you half-swipe through the stories, you can catch a glimpse of the next story’s content. And yes, this way the server doesn’t count your view as a view.
Half Swiping Instagram Reels
The half-swipe feature does not have much advantage when it comes to Instagram’s Reel Sharing feature.
Though if you want to use the half-swipe trick on reels, follow the steps given below:
1) Start from the bottom of the screen and open the reel section by tapping on the reel icon.
2) Now, instead of dragging your finger up the screen fully, tap and hold after swiping up partially.
3) This will allow you to get a sneak peek of the next reel before deciding whether to fully open it or not.
Read Instagram DMs Without Them Knowing
We all have someone who keeps sending us Instagram messages which we want to read but we don’t want them to know that we have read it. While there’s no official feature on Instagram that allows you to read messages without letting the sender know, the half-swipe trick comes to our rescue.
1) First of all, Open the Instagram app.
2) Then, open the DM conversation section.
3) Remember don’t swipe a message or its notification, if you receive any. Just let it disappear. This is a precaution you can take to avoid any mistouch.
Now, before you open a chat which you to read secretly follow the brief guide below:
4) As soon as you open the chat, you have to swipe down.
5) Don’t let the app still on the latest message otherwise, it will get marked as seen.
6) Once you scroll up as soon as the chat opens, you can read the messages without the tension of them getting marked as seen as swiping and scrolling still work.
P.S: In case this method stops working, you can just restrict the account whose message you want to see or stalk. You can then open the DM of the restricted account from the “Message Requests” section.
Then, once you read the messages, just like how you restricted the account, you can unrestrict it. Woohoo! You have read the messages without them being marked as seen.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the half-swipe trick of Instagram unlocks a world of seamless scrolling and stalking. It allows you to view stories just like you used to swipe on Snapchat 2021 but without the awareness of the uploader.
Similar stalking of Instagram DMs and much more. But, it’s important to not misuse the trick and use it just for fun and emergencies. So be careful, work on the trick, and become a magician of stalking.
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