How to delete an Instagram account? Every month, nearly one billion users use Instagram friends to share photos, track followers’ messages or promote businesses. However, this social networking site belongs to Facebook. Facebook has experienced large-scale user personal information leakage and a series of information security incidents

1. How to delete an Instagram account? Every month, nearly
one billion users use Instagram friends to share photos, track
followers’ messages or promote businesses. However, this social
networking site belongs to Facebook. Facebook has experienced
large-scale user personal information leakage and a series of
information security incidents. It is difficult to avoid similar
incidents on Instagram. If you don’t want to use Instagram or
want to disable your IG account, this article will teach you how to
permanently delete or temporarily disable your Instagram
account.
Why not use Instagram?

2. Instagram is a creative social networking site, but users must put
personal information, photos, and videos on the platform, risking
privacy exposure.
Most users no longer use the Instagram platform because:
• Users feel that too much time is wasted browsing a lot of
photos.
• For privacy considerations, I don’t want social platforms to
collect too much information about them.
• Worried about the stolen Instagram account.
• Users don’t worry about putting information on Instagram. In
May 2019, as many as 49 million personal information of
Instagram users were leaked, and similar information security
incidents occurred on Facebook.
How to delete an Instagram account permanently?
Deleting an IG account means that your personal files, photos,
videos, comments, followers, and other information will be
permanently deleted. Therefore, before proceeding, you may need
to consider downloading and backing up these data, otherwise
once deleted, you will not be able to re-create a new account with
the same user name or restore the data of this account.
Proceed as follows:

3. 1. Use the browser to log in to the Instagram account, the mobile
application cannot delete the account. Go directly to the delete
account page, this function cannot be accessed from the web
menu.
2. Choose a reason for deleting your account from the drop-down
menu, re-enter the password, and click “Permanently delete my
account”.
How to deactivate Instagram?
If you just want to suspend use and don’t want to delete your
account, Instagram provides a deactivation function. Disabling
Instagram will temporarily hide your IG account, and others will
not be able to search for your account or see your posted content.
The next time you log in, your account will be reactivated and the
original public content will be restored. However, the account can
only be disabled once a week.
Proceed as follows:
1. Use the browser to log in to the Instagram account, the mobile
application cannot disable the account.
2. Click on the user image in the upper right corner, and then
press the “Edit Profile” button.
3. In the profile below, click on “My Account suspended’.

4. 4. Select the reason for deactivating the account in the drop-down
menu, enter the password again, and then click the
“Temporarily Deactivate Account” button.
Instagram privacy and security settings
If you have information security concerns about Instagram,
Instagram provides privacy and security settings:
• Unlisted account: an Instagram account will make all posted
content public by default, but it can be set as an unlisted
account so that only friends can see your posted content.
• No activity status: Instagram will display the user’s last activity
status by default to let others know when you last used IG. If
you don’t want others to know when you have used IG, just
turn off the “Show activity status” option.
• Two-factor authentication: When two-factor authentication is
turned on, there will be an additional verification process for
mobile phone text messages when logging in to ensure that the
account user logs in and prevents the IG account from being
stolen.
How to delete an Instagram account without a
password?

5. I want to delete my Instagram account, but it’s hard for people to
ask if I’m worried about the account disappearing or if the DM
exchanges will disappear. Especially for sub-accounts.
This time, we have summarized the procedure up to deletion in an
easy-to-understand manner.
In particular, the precautions are a must-see. DM exchanges
cannot be deleted after deleting the account.
Some people may want to delete it as soon as possible, but be sure
to check the precautions before deleting it.
Table of contents
1 How to delete an account (withdrawal)
1. ・Delete account
2. ・Temporarily suspend your account
2 I can’t delete my account, why is it displayed even
though I deleted it?
1. ・Maybe you just logged out
2. ・Possibility of just uninstalling the app

6. 3. ・ The possibility that the sub-account has been
deleted
4. ・Possibility of just pausing
3 Things to note before deleting
1. ・I want to hide DM exchanges from the other party
2. ・Save uploaded images / videos / stories
4 I want to delete the other party’s account or post
5 My account has been deleted
6 Summary
How to delete an account (withdrawal?)
First of all, I will introduce the deletion method.
Captures are also posted for each procedure, but please note that
the iPhone may be slightly different because it will be an Android
application operation.
Instagram has “Delete Account”, which deletes the account
completely, and “Temporarily Suspend Account”, which allows

7. you to temporarily delete the account only while you are not
logged in.
If you want to know the operation procedure in the article, please
check the following.
Account deletion
First of all, please note that if you delete the account, it will be in
the following state.
You will not be able to register with the same username again or
add that username to another account. Also, Instagram cannot
restart the deleted account.
① Open the “Delete Account” page in your browser
Instagram cannot delete the account from the app.
It’s confusing, but you need to open the “Delete Page” in your
browser.
Check if the ID displayed on the delete page is the account ID you
want to delete.
② Select “Reason for deleting account”

8. Then choose the reason for the deletion from the drop-down
menu.
Select the reason from the following eight.
• I can’t find the person I want to follow
• Too many ads
• There was a problem when starting to use
• Created a second account
• Privacy concerns
• Busy / distracted
• I have content that I want to delete
• Other
After selecting, a screen asking you to enter the password will be
displayed. Enter the password of the account you want to delete.
③ Click the “Delete account completely” button
When you press the “Delete Account Permanently” button, a
confirmation message will be displayed, so tap “OK”. It will be
deleted 30 days after the procedure.

9. * DM exchanges cannot be deleted after deleting the account. If
you don’t want to leave the DM exchanges to the other party,
delete the message after deleting it as described later.
* If you delete the account, the posted content will also be deleted,
so if you want to save it, stop it temporarily instead of deleting it,
or download the post.
Temporarily suspend your account
First, if you suspend your account, it will be in the following states.
You will not be able to register with the same username again or
add that username to another account. Also, Instagram cannot
restart the deleted account.
① Open Instagram in your browser
You cannot suspend your account from the app.
As with deleting an account, you need to open an “Instagram
page” in your browser.
② Open “Edit profile”
Click the person’s icon at the bottom right to open “Edit Profile”.

10. ③ Click “Temporarily suspend your account”
Click Temporarily suspend your account at the bottom right
④ Select “Reason for suspending account”
Select the reason for the deletion from the drop-down menu.
Select the reason from the following nine.
• I want to stop temporarily
• Too many ads
• There was a problem when starting to use
• I can’t find the person I want to follow
• I have content that I want to delete
• Created a second account
• Busy / distracted
• Privacy concerns
• Other

11. After selecting, a screen asking you to enter the password will be
displayed, so enter the password of the account you want to
suspend.
⑤ Press the “Temporary suspension of account” button
Click the “Temporary suspension of account” button to complete
the suspension.
I can’t delete my account, why is it displayed even though
I deleted it?
You can delete the account by the above procedure, but here are
some possible causes for those who “could not delete” or
“displayed even though they were deleted”.
There are other causes as well, so please consider this as a
reference only.
Maybe you just logged out
Is it possible that you accidentally logged out of the operation
procedure because you thought you could delete it from the app?
As mentioned earlier, you cannot delete your account from the
app. You need to open the delete page from your browser.

12. Maybe you just uninstalled the app
Is it possible that you have uninstalled the app from your
smartphone?
Please note that even if you delete the app from your smartphone,
you cannot delete your Instagram account.
Possibly deleted sub-account
Is it possible that you accidentally deleted a sub-account instead of
the one you originally wanted to delete?
Instagram can be operated by using multiple accounts properly.
Make sure you have the ID of the account you want to delete on
the delete page.
Possibility of just pausing
Is it possible that you intended to delete your account but forgot
that it was suspended?
Until you log in again, it will be in the same state as deleting the
account, and it will not be displayed even if you search, but if you
log in again, the account will be restored.

13. If you want to delete your account completely, take the steps to
delete it instead of suspending it.
Be careful before deleting
Here are some things to keep in mind before deleting an account.
I understand that you want to delete it in a hurry, but if you delete
it completely, it will be irreparable.
Let’s calm down and think about the disadvantages of deletion.
I want to hide DM exchanges from the other party
Even if you delete an account, you cannot delete the DM messages
exchanged with that account.
If you want to delete the DM history from the other party, there is
no batch deletion function, so you need to delete the messages one
by one.
As for the deletion method, you can delete it by long-pressing the
message you want to delete and press “Cancel Send” of “Copy /
Cancel Send”.
Repeat this one by one to erase it.

14. Save uploaded images / videos / stories
The other is that you want to delete your account, but you want to
save the images, videos, and stories you posted with that account.
This allows you to operate the batch download from the app.
① Open “Settings” of the app
② Open “Security”
③ Make a request with “Download data”
Enter the email address to which you want to send the data, and
also enter the password.
The download URL will be sent to the email address you entered
here.
④ Click the “Download data” button in the email you
received
Since the data that can be downloaded is a zip file, we recommend
downloading it on a computer.
I want to delete the other party’s account or post

15. Can I delete the other person’s account instead of deleting my
account? If you are thinking, this is the content.
However, of course, you cannot delete the other party’s account. It
is the Instagram operator that decides to delete it.
Therefore, if the damage is too malicious, you can report it to the
operating company for judgment.
Report
You can report on the app or from your browser.
When reporting with the app, please note that the reporting
method differs depending on the function such as feed, stories,
profile, etc.
My account has been deleted
If for some reason your account has been deleted, open the app
and open the deleted username and password and you will see a
message about “Appeal”.
Follow the instructions on this screen to challenge the operating
company.
If you don’t see the message, it’s possible that your account has
been hijacked and compromised. In that case, restoration is not

16. possible, so understanding the cause of deletion is the first
priority.
Summary
Regarding account deletion, we have introduced what you should
be careful about before deleting an account and how to report a
violation to the other party’s account.
If you want to delete your own account, you can delete it at your
own discretion, so be careful not to overlook the precautions early.
Accounts of other companies are at the discretion of the operating
company, so it may not be what you want.
I want to use it soundly according to the community guidelines set
by Instagram.