Keep Your Close Friends List Current: Close Friends Butler
3:39 walkthrough · published August 3, 2026 · recorded inside the app, narrated start to finish
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The green circle. Close Friends Stories are where the exclusive offers and the high-converting content live. Adding every new follower by hand is scroll and tap, one at a time. Close Friends Butler does the adding, with the brakes on.
Power User feature. Quick note on plans. Instagram Close Friends Butler is a Power User feature. On the Beginner plan it is hidden from the sidebar. Upgrade any time in Settings, under Subscription.
A real change. It adds real people to your real list from your signed-in Instagram session. Everyone added can see your Close Friends Stories from that moment, so nothing is pressed today.
Your numbers. Friends added, added today, failed or skipped, and unique creators.
Max per run. Run settings are the brakes. Max per run stops this run after that many adds. Twenty-five is the default.
Per hour and per day. Per hour and per day are rolling ceilings. Twenty an hour and two hundred a day are the defaults, and Instagram action-blocks accounts that push past its invisible limit, so do not raise them much.
Lifetime total. Lifetime total is a brake for long-running schedules: the butler stops at the lowest active cap.
Delays. Min and max delay put a random pause between adds, seven to fifteen seconds, which looks more human than a fixed gap.
Auto-harvest followers. Auto-harvest followers scans your newest followers each run. That is where the adds come from.
Queue and exclusions. Add a handle manually and it is processed first. Skip usernames leaves people out of the next run only. The do-not-add list is forever: brands, family, anyone who should never be on the inside.
Run days. Run days picks the weekdays the schedule may fire. Manual runs work any day.
Run. Run opens Chrome on your Instagram session and starts adding. Watch it run in the top bar keeps the browser on screen. Stop ends it.
History. Results list every add with its date, username and status. Export CSV keeps a copy.
Next step. Your next step: keep the default caps, add two names to the do-not-add list, and run it once while you watch.
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