Instagram has no setting that makes the app open on your messages. You tap the icon, the feed loads, and Reels is one tap away, even if all you wanted was to answer a group chat. iPhone has a few shortcuts that get you into a chat faster, and this post goes through each one with what it can and can't do. If you want Instagram to open with nothing but your DMs, the app I make, minulo , does that, and its setting that hides everything except DMs is free. The iPhone parts are based on Apple's i...