When someone deactivates their account, their profile will disappear from Instagram. When someone deactivates their Instagram account, their message request will be deleted.

Where did my Instagram message requests go?

When someone who you don't follow messages you, it will go into your All Requests folder — the most secret folder of them all. You can find this to the right of the Primary and General tabs.

How do you check message requests 2021 on Instagram?

When you open Instagram, tap on your messages. If you don't have any pending requests, you will not see anything, but if you do, you will see "Requests" with the number of requests on the top right of the screen. When you tap this, you can see everyone trying to message you.