Instagram is one of the largest and most important social networks today, although today its relevance has been surpassed by other social networks such as TikTok, it is still considered the queen of applications thanks to its relevance. And large active user base. However you may want delete an instagram account for any circustance.
Having an Instagram account can help us sponsor our brand in a more effective and useful way, but if for some reason you want to delete your Instagram account forever, you should know that there are two options for this: the first is deactivate your Instagram account temporarily and the other is to delete it permanently.
For many people simply deactivating the Instagram account will be enough, because it allows the profile to disappear until you log in again.
How to delete an Instagram account
These are the two options that we get when we want to disappear our Instagram account, both can help us to what we want, but we must always be sure of this decision since in both cases, our account will lose relevance and to recover it we should start almost from scratch.
Permanently delete account
In case you want completely delete your Instagram account, you have to use the browser application since it is not possible to do it from the cell phone, for now. To do this you must follow the following steps:
- The first thing will be to go to the Instagram website in your browser and log in.
- After this you must open the following link https://www.instagram.com/accounts/remove/request/permanent/
- Once here you will have to choose one of the options that appear to explain why you want to delete your account, if none of the options is relevant to you, you can choose "Other reason".
- After this, to confirm you have to enter your password again.
- When you do this, you will see the option "Delete my account permanently". After pressing it you will have deleted your profile, photos, chats, videos, likes, etc.
This is a process that, after having been carried out, will free your email and used user, so that when you delete your account you can create a new one, if you wish, with the same data. It is important to know that After you have deleted your Instagram account, you will not be able to recover anything you had in this account, so it is important to be sure of the decision.
If you are not completely sure, you can always opt for the option to temporarily delete or deactivate your account, a process that we will discuss below.
Temporarily deactivate the account
Deactivating the account is similar to deleting it permanently. By deactivating your account, it will be removed from your contacts, chats with you will be blocked and everything will be the same as when we carried out the removal process. The difference in this case is that we can log in again when necessary, to reactivate the account again.
When entering the account again we will be asked if we want to reactivate it, if we access it our account will work as before, but we must take into account that due to the period of inactivity, the Instagram algorithm will not recommend as before deactivating your account, since due to its deactivation, the relevance that it was acquiring is lost. Although in the same way, if you have a follower base, they will see your posts again and your relevance can grow faster than before, although always almost from zero.
Delete an Instagram account from an iPhone
Instagram did not offer the option to delete your account from its app, but recently this option has been enabled for Apple users on their iPhones, this is because Apple now forces developers to always have the option to unsubscribe in the applications that you download on the iOS operating system. If you want delete your Instagram account from an iPhone you will have to do the following:
- First you must go to the Instagram app on your iPhone or iPad.
- Once inside the application you will have to go to your profile and press the three upper bars that are in the menu.
- There you will look for the “settings” option and choose it.
- Now you go to "account" and then there look for the "Delete account" option.
- Here you can choose between a temporary deactivation and a permanent deletion. There you will have to choose in question and follow the steps as detailed above.
Why can't I delete my Instagram account from my Android device?
Instagram and Facebook are two applications that currently belong to the same company, Meta. This company does not allow its Android users to delete or deactivate their accounts in these applications as a way to keep their users, this option is in iOS due to the guidelines that application developers must follow where they are forced to to always leave the option to unsubscribe to all users.
If you are an Android user the only way you will have to delete your Instagram or Facebook account is through the browser entering the official web pages of each app. We can do this from any device with an Internet connection, so we can do it without problems from our phone, although it is mandatory to access from the browser. Although this would not be a problem anyway.
When an account is deleted in any of these two social networks it is permanent. It will not be possible to recover under any circumstances files from these accounts that have not been previously backed up, in addition to this the data, usernames, and others, may be used again without any problem, so you must be sure of your decision since once made, there is no going back.
Endnotes
All information for this guide was taken from the official Meta (formerly Facebook) documentation. The process is similar for both Facebook and Instagram users, if you have any questions you can leave a comment.