Instagram saying “You can’t message this account unless they follow you.”

Ni12 said:

This could be as a result of the new rule below:

Restricting DMs between teens and adults they don’t follow
To protect teens from unwanted contact from adults, we’re introducing a new feature that prevents adults from sending messages to people under 18 who don’t follow them. For example, when an adult tries to message a teen who doesn’t follow them, they receive a notification that DM’ing them isn’t an option. This feature relies on our work to predict peoples’ ages using machine learning technology, and the age people give us when they sign up.

Source:https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/continuing-to-make-instagram-safer-for-the-youngest-members-of-our-community

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Ni12 said:

This could be as a result of the new rule below:

Restricting DMs between teens and adults they don’t follow
To protect teens from unwanted contact from adults, we’re introducing a new feature that prevents adults from sending messages to people under 18 who don’t follow them. For example, when an adult tries to message a teen who doesn’t follow them, they receive a notification that DM’ing them isn’t an option. This feature relies on our work to predict peoples’ ages using machine learning technology, and the age people give us when they sign up.

Source:https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/continuing-to-make-instagram-safer-for-the-youngest-members-of-our-community

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Gulrux said:

Thank you so much for this, this is exactly what I have. Do you know any ways how to confirm that I am older 18? It turned out that I wrote in my personal information that I am 13 years old, I changed that but still people can not write to me.

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Ni12 said:

This could be as a result of the new rule below:

Restricting DMs between teens and adults they don’t follow
To protect teens from unwanted contact from adults, we’re introducing a new feature that prevents adults from sending messages to people under 18 who don’t follow them. For example, when an adult tries to message a teen who doesn’t follow them, they receive a notification that DM’ing them isn’t an option. This feature relies on our work to predict peoples’ ages using machine learning technology, and the age people give us when they sign up.

Source:https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/continuing-to-make-instagram-safer-for-the-youngest-members-of-our-community

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schenk1414 said:

For the past 4 months I’ve been manually sending out 25 DMs per day to various users. Today I started seeing this message for the first time and I haven’t been able to DM anyone. Has anyone else seen this? Is there any fix

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Razentyler said:

Let your Account rest from Sending Dm's to Non-Followers for a Few Days and you will be fine,Note that this will happen again very fast if you continously abuse it again.Go slow and forget this for atleast a Week or Two now.

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Gulrux said:

Hello, I have the same problem for couple of days. I can write to anyone but users can not write to me. Did you find the way out? Please share

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Princessjhunu said:

I have a business account on Instagram facing same problem since 3 month's what to do only particular account are unable DM me

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Razentyler said:

How many Accounts? What do they see while Sending you a Message?

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Ni12 said:

This feature relies on our work to predict peoples’ ages using machine learning technology, and the age people give us when they sign up.

Source:https://about.instagram.com/blog/an...fer-for-the-youngest-members-of-our-community

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RushingWind said:

So they’ve figured out a way to ‘detect’ someone’s age?
If that’s true, then changing your age via settings is going to do jackshit lol

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Princessjhunu said:

I am having the same issue i have a business account nothing is happening

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Princessjhunu said:

I have a business account on Instagram facing same problem since 3 month's what to do only particular account are unable DM me

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Princessjhunu said:

Yes i am also facing same problem first they are unable to dm me says "they can't dm me untill i follow them back " and now when i message them they can't write how to fix

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davids355 said:

Please use the multi-quote feature when posting multiple replies consecutively.

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