u/LyingPervert

I have an Instagram account that was previously at 970k followers.

About 6 months ago, I switched the account to private. During that time, I estimate that somewhere between 50k–100k people tried to follow me, meaning their requests were stuck in “pending” waiting for manual approval.

I also deactivated the account for around 3 months, then reactivated it again about 3 months ago.

Yesterday, my account was sitting at 899k followers, so I decided to switch it back to public. I expected all pending requests to automatically convert into followers, but that didn’t happen. Only a few hundred followers were added, even though Instagram still showed “999+” pending requests.

What’s confusing is that in the past, when I went private for only a couple weeks and then switched back to public, I instantly gained 15k–30k followers from pending requests being auto-approved.

Now, even though the account is public again, I can still see tons of accounts stuck in pending requests inside my notifications.

Has anyone experienced this before or know how to fix it? Is this some kind of Instagram glitch or rate limit?

My friend also had a similar issue where they had 600 pending request and when they went public only 100 of them were accepted.

I have an Instagram account that was previously at 970k followers.

About 6 months ago, I switched the account to private. During that time, I estimate that somewhere between 50k–100k people tried to follow me, meaning their requests were stuck in “pending” waiting for manual approval.

I also deactivated the account for around 3 months, then reactivated it again about 3 months ago.

Yesterday, my account was sitting at 899k followers, so I decided to switch it back to public. I expected all pending requests to automatically convert into followers, but that didn’t happen. Only a few hundred followers were added, even though Instagram still showed “999+” pending requests.

What’s confusing is that in the past, when I went private for only a couple weeks and then switched back to public, I instantly gained 15k–30k followers from pending requests being auto-approved.

Now, even though the account is public again, I can still see tons of accounts stuck in pending requests inside my notifications.

Has anyone experienced this before or know how to fix it? Is this some kind of Instagram glitch or rate limit?

My friend also had a similar issue where they had 600 pending request and when they went public only 100 of them were accepted.

I have an Instagram account that was previously at 970k followers.

About 6 months ago, I switched the account to private. During that time, I estimate that somewhere between 50k–100k people tried to follow me, meaning their requests were stuck in “pending” waiting for manual approval.

I also deactivated the account for around 3 months, then reactivated it again about 3 months ago.

Yesterday, my account was sitting at 899k followers, so I decided to switch it back to public. I expected all pending requests to automatically convert into followers, but that didn’t happen. Only a few hundred followers were added, even though Instagram still showed “999+” pending requests.

What’s confusing is that in the past, when I went private for only a couple weeks and then switched back to public, I instantly gained 15k–30k followers from pending requests being auto-approved.

Now, even though the account is public again, I can still see tons of accounts stuck in pending requests inside my notifications.

Has anyone experienced this before or know how to fix it? Is this some kind of Instagram glitch or rate limit?

My friend also had a similar issue where they had 600 pending request and when they went public only 100 of them were accepted.