How do i see who i ve requested to follow on instagram

No matter how much of an Instagram influencer you fancy yourself, we have all been humbled by the process of requesting to follow a private account. Perhaps your new acquaintance prefers to keep to themselves, or maybe you have come to ask a finsta user for their blessing, granting you access into their best-kept-secret corner of the internet. Whatever has you knocking on the locked door of an Instagram account, the process in itself feels a bit secretive. You send a follow request, and then? You wait. Whenever the user sees your request, they can choose to accept it, leave it in review, or deny it — though it might be hard to know for sure what route they took, initially. But, there is a way to see who has ignored your Instagram follow request, as the New York Post reported.

Before delving into the process of digging up your latent follow requests, it’s important to note that a lack of a reply doesn’t always mean someone denied your request. It could mean that the person has yet to see your request, whether it’s your aunt who accidentally goes off-the-grid and checks Instagram once a year, or a private meme account that your friend DM’ed you with way too many follow requests to comb through.

Of course, it could mean someone did choose to not accept your follow request, which is no big deal, either. As the saying goes, “We accept the follow requests we think we deserve.” Or something like that. The point is: If you don’t get the invite to someone’s Instagram profile, don’t take it personally. And, if you think the process of checking to find out might leave you feeling burned, you might want to ask yourself, “Do I really want to know?”

If you decide you want to check out of pure curiosity, though, here is how to view your pending follow requests.

How to See Your Instagram Pending Follow Requests

To access your list of sent follow requests that haven’t been accepted yet, you’ll want to head to your Instagram settings menu. Go to your profile tab and click the icon with three stacked vertical lines, then click the “Settings” gear icon. From here, you’ll head to “Security,” which is marked by a shield icon with a check mark on it. Click “Access Data” next to the bar chart logo, where you can find everything from your previous usernames to polls you’ve participated in.

Scroll down to “Connections,” and the top option will say “Current follow requests.” Click “View All,” and you’ll see all of your currently pending follow requests. If you’d like to cancel your request, you’ll need to manually search the person’s username, click on their profile, and tap the “Requested” button. Then, the fact that you ever requested to follow them in the first place will be lost to the sands of time.

Private Instagram profiles differ from usual public profiles where you just need to hit the Follow button to follow them. Whereas in the case of private accounts, you need to send them a request and you won’t be in their Followers List until they accept the request.

Have you sent a follow request to someone on Instagram but forgotten who you’ve actually sent it to? 

Don’t worry. Instagram keeps a record of the requests you’ve sent over time that have not been accepted yet. You can always access the list of sent follow requests and also delete them if you want to.

Let’s have a look at how you can see the active follow requests on the Instagram app or Instagram’s web version.

How to See Sent Follow Request On Instagram (Mobile)

New update May 2022: The method explained below might not work due to the recent update made by Instagram. You can refer to the video below to see the sent follow requests.

Step 1: Go to instagram.com on your browser and log in to your account.

Step 2: Tap your profile picture in the bottom right corner of the screen.

Step 3: Tap the Settings icon in the upper left corner.

Step 4: Tap Privacy and Security.

Step 5: Scroll down and locate Account Data, then tap View Account Data.

Step 6: Navigate to Connections. Under Current follow requests tap View All.

Here, you can view a non-clickable list of all the usernames you have sent follow requests but have not been accepted yet.

How to See Sent Follow Request On Instagram Web (Desktop)

If you prefer using the web version of Instagram on desktop, you can have a look at the follow requests you’ve sent.

Here’s how you can access it.

Step 1: Open instagram.com on your desktop browser and fill in the login credentials if you’re aren’t signed in.

Step 2: Then, tap your profile icon in the upper right corner and select the Settings option.

Step 3: In the left panel, tap the Privacy and Settings option. 

Step 4: Under the Accounts Data section, click View Account Data. 

Step 5: Tap View All below Current follow requests present under the Connections column. 

This is how you can access the list of usernames that haven’t accepted your follow requests.

The usernames shown in the list are unclickable. If you want to delete the follow request, you need to search their username, visit their profile and tap the Requested button.