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Connect your Instagram account and automate DMs, comment replies, reels and story replies.

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Connect your Instagram account and automate DMs, comment replies, reels and story replies.

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Can I Choose Which Post to Autoreply To?

Yes. Create a custom automation with a List of posts, and it answers comments only on the posts or reels you pick — up to 50 per rule, with up to 30 rules per…

Can I Like a Comment on Instagram?

No. Chatfuel cannot automatically like comments on your Instagram posts, reels, or ads.

Can I Set a Delay Before Comment Autoreply?

Yes — with the Message delays setting. Every automation has it, including the comment sources, and it adds a natural typing pause before Fuely AI replies, so…

Connect your Instagram account

Below, you'll learn how to connect your Instagram account to Chatfuel.

DM to Follow

Chatfuel cannot send a DM automatically when someone follows your Instagram account: Meta does not expose a "new follower" event to any platform.

How to Activate AI in Instagram

Every Instagram automation starts off, so Fuely AI stays quiet until you enable the sources you want it to handle.

How to connect Instagram account to another profile

If you want to move an Instagram account from one Chatfuel profile (or company) to another, you need to disconnect it from the current profile first, then…

How to Get Automation on Your Reels

Reels don't need special setup: the post & reel comments source covers them together with regular posts.

Instagram Automations

Fuely AI talks to your Instagram audience through automations — one for every place a conversation can start.

Instagram Comment Autoreply

Fuely AI replies to comments on your posts, reels, and ads — publicly under the comment, in a private DM, or both.

Messaging rules for Instagram

To prevent spam, Instagram puts some limits on who you can message and how often.