Private profile and blocking
Find out how to set your account private and how to block people
Christian Tico
Last Update 3 days ago
With a private profile you decide who can see your content, and with blocking you stop a user from seeing your profile and interacting with you.
Requirements
Requirements
- Have an IntraOS account.
- Log in to your IntraOS account.
- For the private profile and the list of blocked users: click your profile icon at the top right, select Settings, and then click Privacy.
- To block a user: open their profile and click the button with the down arrow, after the friend and follow buttons.
- To make your profile private:
- In Privacy, turn on Private profile: the change is saved right away. By default, every profile is public.
- People who are not your friends and don't follow you see only the profile header (photo, name, verified badge, @username, bio, counters, and buttons), with a lock next to the name. In place of the rest, the notice This profile is private invites them to follow you or become your friend.
- These people can't ask you anonymous questions and can't open the counter lists, even without logging in.
- Your current friends and followers keep full access.
- To manage follow requests:
- On a private profile, Follow sends a follow request and the button becomes Cancel request.
- You get a notification for every request. Open the profile of the person who sent it and click Accept or Decline.
- With Accept, the person becomes your follower, gets a notification, and sees the full profile. With Decline, the request disappears without notifying them.
- A pending request does not count as a follower.
- If you stop following a private profile, you are asked to confirm: to see it again you will need to send a new request.
- To go back to a public profile, turn off Private profile. If there are pending requests, you are asked to confirm: they will all be accepted.
- To block a user:
- On their profile, click the arrow and choose Block user.
- Read the notice and confirm.
- To unblock a user:
- In Privacy, go to the Blocked users row and click Show blocked users.
- In the window, you see the users you blocked, newest first. Click a row to open their profile.
- Click Unblock and confirm.
- Blocking is one-way: it restricts the blocked user, not you.
- Blocking a user removes friendship, follows, and pending requests in both directions. The user receives no notification for these removals.
- The blocked user can no longer see your profile (it appears as if it did not exist), can't find you in people search, and can't send you friend requests, follow requests, follows, or anonymous questions.
- You still see the blocked user's profile and find them in search, but while the block is active you don't see the friend and follow buttons on their profile.
- You can't block yourself or IntraMind team members.
- After unblocking, the user can see your profile again, find you in search, and interact again, according to your privacy settings: if your profile is private, a follow request is still needed.
- Unblocking restores nothing: friendships, follows, and requests removed by the block stay removed.
- The unblocked user gets a notification (bell, email, and push, per their preferences) with your photo. You can turn the notifications of this article on or off in Settings → Notifications, in the Friends & followers section, under Follow request received, Follow request accepted, and Someone unblocked you.