Every now and then, each Instagram marketer or anyone who uses the Follow/Unfollow strategy to grow their Instagram accounts gets this unpopular message from Instagram – the follow block. It happens for a variety of reasons, we will list them below along with solutions that will help you solve the follow blocks and avoid them in the future.
Here’s the message that you usually get : “It looks like you were misusing this feature by going too fast. You’ve been temporarily blocked from using it. We restrict certain content and actions to protect our community. Tell us if you think we made a mistake.”
First of all, don’t panic! It’s nothing serious and it can be avoided. Read on to see how to solve the Instagram follow block.
Why does the Instagram Follow block occur?
- Those who are following Instagram users manually via the IG official phone application tend to follow a lot of profiles in a couple of minutes. This raises a huge flag with Instagram’s algorithm and they show you a message saying that “Action is blocked. We restrict certain content and actions to protect our community…”. This happens because they followed a lot of users (more than 60) in less than one hour. It’s understandable why users do this. You simply cannot take the phone every 60 minutes and follow just 60 users then repeat it. That would be exhausting and you wouldn’t have time for anything else. So, it’s easier to follow or try to follow more than 60, however, it’s frowned upon by Instagram and will most likely get you temporarily blocked from following.
Those who use Instagram automation tools like Jarvee can also get blocks if they follow too fast, but that can easily be solved by using correct settings and making sure that the follow tool doesn’t follow more than 50-60 users per hour.
- Another reason that might cause a follow block is the IP or proxy if you use one for that account. Residential IPs (like your home IP) are the best you can use for your Instagram account, however, it’s not recommended to run more than 3 accounts on the same IP. If you do that, Instagram’s algorithm recognizes it and blocks actions from your IP. So, residential IPs are the best ones, but you still have to be careful with the number of actions you do and the number of accounts you run on them. Same thing happens to Instagram accounts on proxies, but they’re even more strict with proxies because even if you bought a private proxy, there’s a possibility that someone misused that proxy (IP) in the past and Instagram doesn’t wait long to issue an Action Blocked warning for it.
- If you are into black hat marketing and trying to promote offers like CPA (cost per action), follow block can easily occur if you don’t use a prelander or cloaked links and add direct CPA links to your profile. There are a couple of other types of links that Instagram does not allow like links to adult offers or shortened links that pay per view. Also, using same link for multiple Instagram accounts can lead to follow block
- Another type of block that you can experience if you are Jarvee user is “API Follow block”. If that happens, you will see this message displayed in the Summary tab. This kind of block can be caused by any of the reasons we mentioned above (aggressive following or bad IPs) but it also depends on how the Instagram account is created. Instagram marketers who run 10s or 100s accounts usually buy those accounts from sellers on social media and internet marketing forums. The sellers who create these accounts in bulk do not pay much attention to IP’s so sometimes they make 10’s of accounts on same IP or by using the same device and accounts are flagged from the very beginning. If you buy some of these you can experience API follow blocks even after doing just one follow action. Of course, that’s not the case with all sellers, there are very good ones, you just need to find them. We won’t promote any of them in this article, but feel free to comment below if you know any reliable one.
How to solve the Follow Blocked status if you are a Jarvee user
In case you do not use a proxy and get the “action blocked” message in the Tools section of Jarvee after you start the follow tool, you are probably using too aggressive settings and following too many users in a short period of time. In this case, you should stop the account for 24 hours and lower your settings.
If you have aged Instagram accounts with decent followers count use these tips:
- Make sure you don’t follow more than 50-60 users per hour, add night mode for your Instagram accounts in order to avoid doing actions 24/7 and set daily max to 1000-1100 users. Avoid using Follow and Unfollow tool at the same time, especially if you are following 1100 users per day. Best practice is to follow for one day and then unfollow the next day or follow 500-600 for 12 hours and then unfollow the same number during the next 12 hours.
If your account is fairly new:
- Use default settings for each tool in Jarvee to warm up the account. This should be done for at least one week. After that, you can start slowly increasing your settings each day until you hit your preferred numbers or the numbers we recommended in the above paragraph.
When getting an action blocked message and your settings are not aggressive, then it’s most likely the proxy’s fault. As I said before, proxies can be blacklisted by Instagram. In this case first thing you can try is: go to the Social profiles section in Jarvee, click on your Instagram account, scroll down and check Show Advanced settings. Then click on RESET DEVICE IDs at the bottom of the window. Verify the account in Jarvee again, wait for it to get a VALID status, turn on some tools like Story viewer for a couple of hours then try turning on the Follow tool again.
As already stated, bad links can also cause action – follow blocks. In this case you will have to remove this link from your profile and use a prelander on different domain or a cloaked link.
Sometimes Jarvee users can get blocked from following via API. If this happens, you can try these solutions:
- Open the embedded browser for the account that got blocked from following via API. Follow one user through embedded browser, refresh the page and see if the follow stuck. If it sticks, close the embedded browser, go to Social profiles and click on that IG account. Then check “Show advanced profile settings” and check the box “Use embedded browser to follow when Action Blocked”. Restart the follow tool. You can turn this option on for each account that has issues with following. Check the screenshot below to find out where the option is located.
- In case that you still get the Follow Blocked message, all you can do is stop the account, wait for 24-72 hours, then change the proxy and verify the account in Jarvee again. After that turn on the follow tool and it should start working normally.
Conclusions on solving the Instagram follow block
Although we listed several potential reasons that might cause Action Blocked or Follow Blocked status, in most cases the reason is using Jarvee tools too aggressively. So, make sure you always stay within normal limits, don’t use only one or two tools in Jarvee, take advantage of all the tools that we offer like Story viewer, Follow Back tool, use Manage Comments and Direct Messages tool to engage with your followers and followings. Make sure you publish posts at least once or twice per day and avoid using the same Instagram account on multiple devices (on your phone and Jarvee). All this should make your account look more natural which will help you avoid not only Follow blocks, but also Like blocks and any other issues you might experience on Instagram.
Should you have other ideas on how to solve this block or if you’re still encountering problems and the above solutions don’t fully help you please comment below and we’ll try and solve it together! In case you’re experiencing like block check out this article to solve them.
Cindy says
Followed the instructions and works like a charm
Adam says
Glad to hear that !
Rajat Varshney says
Sir my Instagram action blocked at 4 days… I am not follow everyone… Please help me sir as soon as possible… Please sir give me correct information for start the follow everyone
Deepak says
Wait first you change your password then logout your instagram ib for 24-72 hour.
Heather says
i had aggressive setting but the follow settings laid out in this article seem to work best
Julia Castro says
This problem has been bothering me for a while but when i applied the instructions laid out here, everything is working out fine now.
Matthew says
Concise and helpful article indeed!
Abdul-Malik says
oh, i now see what i was doing wrong with the article, i was direct linking my CPA offers in the BIO.
The article was very helpful, thank you jarvee!
Marjo says
I was using a lot of accounts on 1 IP, now i understand why i was getting the follow block. thanks for the article
Adam says
Glad you were able to solve it 😉
Sherin says
Why is it everytime we comment on a post they ask we must tsg followers but everytime we reach 20 and above comments we get blocked bit others followers can go to pver 50 but dont get blocked
Adam says
It can be any number of things, account standing, age, usage patterns, ip and if any other accounts on the same ip are doing the same thing, you’ll have to take it easy and see which one is it in your case.
Jason says
Would scraping settings be a reason for a follow API block?
Adam says
If the settings are too agressive, yes they could…
Francois says
I use only one account on my IP and I can’t follow more people for few hours but only when I unfollow. And the fact is that I unfollow only 100 people a day … what is really slow unfollowing. i don’t know why
Francois says
I don’t have agressive settings but each time I want to unfollow , the following is blocked for few hours. I try to unfollow only 100 people a day so I don’t understand
Adam says
Strage… are you using the account via a proxy? if so try changing it..
Chiragsaini8824 says
Please solve my instgram action blocked problem, no mistake next time thank you.
Matias says
Hi, could you please let me know how many instagram accounts are safe to have in a single proxy?
I am using a few friend’s accounts, which are real, so they do like with their own ip too sometimes in the day..
Not being a fake account.
But I want to add them into jarvee to make a boost, I am using 6 accs that are mine too, but I dont know how many accs can I have in a single proxy to reduce costs? Using the highproxy isntagram proxies tho.
Thanks!
Bruce says
Ideally, it’s one account on one proxy, but up to 3 is acceptable. On residential (real) IP, it’s OK to have more than 3, but I wouldn’t use more than you currently use (6).
Lee Smith says
Help! Anyone experienced this?
I have run an account for about 18 months. Never experienced a ban. Have always operated well within safe limit. The running from a genuine residential ip (my own home) . Just the one business account. My wife and son both here, and using IG for personal use but not heavy users. I hit 7500 Following 9 days ago. So slowly over a week reduced by apps 1000 to 6500 apps. However, still getting Action Blocked at any attempt to follow a single account. Have also for past 48 been totally inactive to ‘unlock’. To no avail
Bruce says
Please contact support with screenshots of your follow and unfollow settings so we can check it out.
N says
Dear Support,
I don’t use aggressive settings and I have reliable proxies as well.
Even though 6 profiles got follow-block a week ago.
I have stopped all of the accounts but the block is still on them.
When I log into any of the accounts I am not able to follow manually either.
I have no idea why is that, because the maximum limits of follow is 500-550/daily and I always “warmed up” the accounts.
Please help me to resolve this issue asap!
Thanks & regards,
N
Bruce says
We’ll need more info to help you. Please contact support and send screenshot of your follow settings. Have in mind that if you used followback tool, it also counts at follow.
Mensah salomey says
Hy, please im on follow block a week ago and any time i try to follow the follow button doen’t work. Can you please help me
Hiba says
Hey, I have a blog account and I must have follow a lot of people in little time, I got action blocked by them for the past 6 days and I can’t following anyone. Please help me what to do. I’m really panicking.
Adam says
This might help : https://jarvee.com/what-to-do-about-the-latest-instagram-action-blocks/
Tina says
I have been blocked for a week and my followings are going lower idk what to do its been a week help me
Adam says
Check out the following article : https://jarvee.com/what-to-do-about-the-latest-instagram-action-blocks/
Sharique says
My following block
Andrea says
Hello, approx 10 days ago I got a following block on the jarvee app. I stopped it for a 2 days resetted the ID and did the embedded following API thing.
I also got an eror message on the app saying that it looked like I was using a bot and to reset my pasword. I did and now my jarvee as been off for 2-3 days again but I still get this messsage while following someone manually:
“This action was blocked please try again later. We restrict certain content and actions to protect our community. Tell us if you think we made a mistake.”
What should I do ?
Adam says
It’s due to a recent change IG did, it’s happening to a lot of people, for now you should just wait it out and do other actions that help grow your account, this might help : https://jarvee.com/what-to-do-about-the-latest-instagram-action-blocks/
Emily says
I had to pay someone to get me unbanned (£25) but worth it imo, didn’t have to give any account details either. Great job. His Instagram is ***** if anyone else is interested
Adam says
Sorry but this seems like promoting such a service and I am not sure that is a good idea…
Khushboo Khatun says
Please help me I think it is been interdict of follow up by mistake please help and respond as quickly
Adam says
you will just have to wait it out, there’s nothing anyone can do about this.
Adam says
yep, definitely someone spamming his “service” that probably doesn’t work since I got to delete the 10 of the same spinned message with different emails and names 🙂 way to go dude…
vignesh says
my instagram account is shown in action blocked how to remove this help me
Adam says
Check with support about this please.
Louise says
Hi,
If you could please help I’ve tried the above but I’m still blocked and have been for a month. I’m also missing my music feature in my stories on Instagram.
Adam says
the block should pass on its own soon if it’s been around a month, unfortunately there’s nothing anyone can do about this but wait it out.
Lalla says
When i follow manuly i am not blocked but in jarvee is it blocked, how come the settings not being changed after the blocked is removed?
Adam says
there is no setting for this, if the account is valid it should work, just check with support and see what the problem might be
Sahim says
Account block please problem solved
Bruce says
We really need more info, please contact support and provide as much info as possible, do you use proxies, screenshots of your settings and stuff like that. Thanks.
absar says
jarvee temporary block suspending the tool error how to salotion
aronfranks2005 says
WRONG!! I followed 1 person I got blocked, 1 week later I follow 2 people I get blocked again, how can I fix this?
Adam says
IG went completely nuts… I’d say just let the account rest for a while
Frankie says
My account got banned can you help me get back on to my account?
Bruce says
Hi Frankie, did you use Jarvee? What tools you used if you did? Can you give us more details please?
Macie Redman says
Thank you guys for always providing great support and for giving us good directions and suggestions. You helped me so much and I’m very grateful for everything!
Johnny Tillman says
I heard that there some updates in Jarvee updates that can help in issue with action block status. Please let me know if there some posts related to this. Thank you Jarvee!
True123 says
Lot’s of things happen from the time when this article was written, butt Jarvee team did it’s work. No one succeed in what they did. I was using lot’s of different tools but Jarvee is a far more better and complete software than others on market.
Jacob Mendoza says
Instagram is giving us hard time, it’s very hard to keep accounts active. I appreciate that you always find solutions that help in solving these issues. First I was using Instagram only, but now I decided to start using Jarvee for my other social profiles. Thank you!
Shenzen says
Instagram made lot’s of changes lately, I saw it from the Jarvee support team while we were handling my issues. There are lots of solutions to these and similar problems. Thank You Jarvee team!
tharsikan says
please add darkmode on jarvee
Adam says
haha, we’ve been considering that actually
Luis Ibanez says
It’s so annoying to deal with it all the time,change proxies,change settings,do that,do this,check tha option,uncheck that. But that’s the IG life nowadays