Instagram has grown to be one of the world leading social network, launch in 2010 and acquired by Facebook in 2012,the mobile-photo sharing app has become a must have application installed on many smartphones.
If you own an instagram account, and probably thinking of deactivating it due to some reasons, this tutorial will put you through on how to delete your instagram account parmanently.
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The first half of this post will show you how to deactivate your account temporarily which you can later activate again, while the second half will show u how to delete or deactivate your instagram account.
Without wasting much time, let's get down to the nitty-gritty of the tutorial.
Deactivating instagram account.
You might decide to deactivate your instagram account temporarily rather than deleting it permanently should in case you want to get it back, follow the steps below.
Note: that you can not deactivate or delete your account with the instagram app.
Temporarily deactivating your account will hide your profile, comments, photos and likes until your reactivate your account by logging in again.
1. Go to instagram.com on your browser and log in to your account.
2. Click the profile icon on the top right hand corner of the screen.
3. Click on "Edit account"
4. Scroll down the page to find the “Temporarily disable my account” link.
5. Click on the link and a new window will open asking you reasons why you want to deactivate.
6. Select any of the reasons from the drop down menu and input your password.
7. After that, click on the read button with “Temporarily Disable Account.”
Delete instagram account parmanently
If you've decided to delete your account, you can click on the remove account link here on any browser, you will have to log in to proceed.
After successfully login, you'll have to choose any of the reasons in the drop-down menu, after selecting any of the reasons, input your password and and click on the “Temporarily Disable Account.” button to delete your account, once you hit the button, your account can not be recovered again.
Unlike the temporarily deactivation, once you delete your account, your photos, videos, comments, likes, and followers will be remove permanently and also note that you won't be able to register with same username on instagram once you delete your account.
These are the easy steps to delete or deactivate your instagram account, don't forget to hit the share button to share the post to someone who might also need to know the procedures.
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