Instagram allows you to limit interactions with users and businesses based on your preferences. This can be done by restricting certain users or blocking them entirely.

But what if you want to contact the user in the future? Can you unblock them? What happens when you unblock someone? If you’re in the same boat, here’s everything you need to know about it.

When you block someone on Instagram, you completely remove the user from your account.

While unblocked users won’t get all of their permissions back, they will still have access to your profile and other information based on your privacy settings. Here are some of the notable changes that happen when you unblock someone on Instagram.