Until the arrival of TikTok, Instagram was the social network best rated of all. Everyone was hooked on mobile uploading photos, applying filters and measuring whether one label was better than another for receiving likes. Today, young people prefer the social network of short videos. And, although Zuckerberg's pretty girl has not stopped copying TikTok features for all these years, the truth is that many users prefer to close their Instagram account. If you opened your account a long time ago and you do not use it, if you have tired of posturing, if you want to eliminate all traces in said social network or simply, you are going to permanently switch to TikTok, these are the steps you have to take to unsubscribe and delete your account of Instagram.
Can you delete an Instagram account?
Creating an account on a social network is usually a fairly easy task, however, when we want to unsubscribe, the steps are not always so simple. It is not unreasonable to think that social networks are not at all interested in you deleting yourself. After all, their product is you. If you stop using Instagram, you will stop consuming their ads, so they will lose revenue. Obviously, your leaving isn't going to put a hole in their profit and loss statements, but a massive flight would be dangerous. For this reason, they usually hide these options a bit.
So, if you had the impression that Instagram was hiding these options a bit and that they are not as accessible as others, you were correct. sometimes you have to rummage a little more than expected to find the way to what we are looking for. If you have already decided to delete your account from the social network, let's do it:
How to delete an Instagram account
These are the steps to follow depending on the platform:
From an iOS or Android mobile
The most comfortable and simple way to delete an Instagram profile is through a computer. However, if you do not have a laptop, you can also do it from your mobile. Of course, this function is not available in the app for all users. Therefore, if you follow the steps to the letter and do not find what you are looking for, you will only have to carry out the process through a computer and a web browser.
- To check whether or not you can delete your Instagram account from your mobile to your profile.
- Tap the hamburger menu in the upper right corner of the interface — the button with the three parallel horizontal lines — and go to Settings.
- Within settings, look for the 'Account' section.
- Scroll down a bit and an option called 'Delete Account' should appear just below the 'Branded Content' section.
- Click on the 'Delete Account' option. A message will appear that you will have to confirm several times. And ready.
If you do not get this option, yes or yes you will have to do the process from a browser.
From a browser
If you can't use the app to delete your account, you'll need to follow these steps to delete your account. They can be followed both with a computer and with a smartphone, as long as you use a browser like Chrome, Firefox or Safari.
To delete your account using this method, the option is even more hidden. You will have to go to the specific Instagram account removal service. You can access this website through this link. As soon as you enter, they will ask you for your Instagram username and password to access. Once inside, you will have to confirm the removal process. They will most likely ask for your password again to make sure you understand what you are doing and as an additional security step.
Once that step is done, you will arrive at a page that will ask you a kind of questionnaire. Basically, the Zuckerbergers will be interested in why you want to leave Instagram. Depending on the answers you mark, they will ask you more or fewer questions. During the process you will be bombarded with links to the Instagram Help Center in case there is any possibility that you will cancel your idea of deleting the account. When the questionnaire is over, you will have to confirm the process once more and your account will enter the deletion process.
Can the removal process be stopped?
If you deleted your account but regret it, you have 30 days to cancel the process. It doesn't matter if you did the deletion process from the official Instagram application or through the web form. During those 30-day grace period, your username cannot be chosen by anyone who wants to register on the social network. Once that time has passed, your account will be permanently deleted and you will not have the possibility to recover it in any way. Also, other users could change their name or sign up on Instagram using your name, so think carefully about whether or not you want to delete your profile entirely.
To cancel the deletion process of your account, you will simply have to log in to instagram with your username and password. A notice will automatically appear telling you that the account was in the process of being deleted and that, if you proceed, the profile will be restored automatically. Once you restore your account, you will have to follow all the steps again to delete it again. The counter will disappear and your account will return to the same point it was at just before you filled out the deletion form.
Up until a few years ago, many people would mark their profiles for deletion to take a break from Instagram. However, you can now temporarily disable your account without going through this process—thus minimizing your account being inadvertently deleted. If you are interested in disabling your Instagram account temporarily, Within the Profile menu, you can select the 'Temporarily disable my profile' option. It's a much safer option than constantly deleting and terminating your account. You can disable your account once a week and during that time Instagram will keep your username.