---
title: "Instagram Messaging Conversation Settings"
slug: "instagram-messaging-conversation-settings"
description: "Learn how to set and update your Instagram Messaging Conversation settings in this step-by-step guide."
updated: 2025-01-23T06:17:59Z
published: 2025-01-30T20:02:39Z
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.gladly.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Instagram Messaging Conversation Settings

| **REQUIRED USER ROLE** Administrator | **PERMISSION OVERVIEW** [View permissions by role](https://help.gladly.com/docs/managing-users-and-roles#roles-and-responsibilities) |
| --- | --- |

Receiving messages from Instagram or seeing Story @mentions is a great way to stay connected with your Customers, but it could create more Conversations that your team will need to manage. You have settings you can control to manage inbound Instagram communications.

1. Click ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/7047b671-c4f2-4df0-bb0a-b9b511fd2452/Images/Documentation/hamburger-menu-icon(2).svg) on the top left corner of the screen.
2. Click **Settings**.
3. Under the **Channels**category, click **Instagram Messaging**.
4. From the Instagram Messaging page, Click **Settings**.
5. You'll have two options presented in the modal:
  - **Show direct messages initiated by all non-Gladly users in the Conversation Timeline –** If the box is checked, messages sent by a non-Gladly user (e.g., a social media manager) to a Customer from your company's Instagram app appear on the Conversation Timeline. This allows Agents to see existing communications happening outside of Gladly. This feature is also referred to as "echo."
    - **Note –** If selected, this setting will re-route these messages back to an Inbox and away from the assigned Agent.
  - **Show all Instagram Story mentions in the Conversation Timeline –** If the box is checked, create a Conversation in Gladly whenever a Customer @mentions your company. This allows you the opportunity to respond to a Customer in Gladly. A Customer's Instagram account must be public for Gladly to create a Conversation from an @mention.
    - **Note –** Keep in mind that @mentions has the potential to create a large number of Conversations in Gladly.
6. Click **Save**.