Look, all of us use Instagram once we most likely shouldn’t. We open the app and scroll by the feed or faucet by Stories spontaneously — even once we’re round different folks and want to take action silently. That used to not be an issue — on the iPhone, simply hold the mute change flipped down and Instagram stays silent. Except, it doesn’t anymore.

No, it’s not simply you: Instagram gained’t keep silent anymore, even in case you have your mute change on. Infuriatingly, in the event you mute your cellphone whereas within the Instagram app it’ll cease the sound for a bit, however the subsequent Story you load or video you scroll previous will go proper again to blaring sound. And y’know, a whole lot of the audio on Instagram isn’t notably delicate (thanks, TikTook).

Alright, so how will you repair it completely? Well, right here’s the issue … you possibly can’t. At least, we haven’t been in a position to determine it out. Trying the entire traditional steps like uninstalling and reinstalling the app, logging out and again in, or restarting your cellphone, solely fixes it briefly.

The solely option to hold Instagram from taking part in sound for now could be to manually decrease your cellphone’s system quantity. To try this, simply pull down your Control Center with a swipe from the top-right nook of your display screen, and slide the quantity slider to the underside so it reveals a speaker with a line by it. Alternatively, you should use the quantity down button on the facet of your cellphone to do the identical — as long as you don’t have your cellphone set to vary its ringtone quantity with the quantity buttons as a substitute.

Chances are, we’re going to only must impatiently anticipate Instagram to handle the issue. Considering that this bug confirmed up seemingly with out an Instagram app replace, there’s good likelihood the corporate will be capable to repair the issue on the server facet — relatively than pushing out an app replace. Whatever they should do, I hope they do it quickly — I have to get again to watching Reels whereas performing like I’m being attentive to one thing else.

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