How to delete or deactivate your Instagram account

Maybe it's the pandemic doomscrolling, the unsettling revelations astir however toxic Instagram is for teenage girls, oregon you are conscionable craving much clip for IRL moments with the radical you emotion and little clip oversharing your beingness online.

Whatever the reason, if you are done with Instagram, you person 2 choices. Make a imperishable interruption (delete your Instagram relationship everlastingly with nary springiness backs) oregon instrumentality a impermanent interruption (deactivate your Instagram relationship with the volition of coming backmost aboriginal similar Britney Spears).

Pro tip: Before you delete oregon disable your account, download your data. You tin petition your information connected a mobile browser, desktop oregon successful the app. (Instructions below).

If you are acceptable to delete oregon deactivate your Instagram app, occurrence up a web browser connected your desktop oregon phone. You cannot delete oregon deactivate your Instagram relationship connected the app. Then travel this step-by-step guide.

How to delete your Instagram account

1. Go to the Instagram website and log into your account.
2. Go to the relationship deletion page.
3. From the drop-down menu, take the crushed you are deleting your account.
4. Enter your password again. Then click oregon pat the delete button.

The good print: Instagram says it volition instrumentality 30 days for your relationship and information permanently erase your account. During that time, your relationship volition not beryllium accessible connected Instagram.

How to deactivate your Instagram account

1. Go to the Instagram website, and log into your account.
2. Go to your illustration representation successful the apical right, click oregon pat your illustration and past "Edit Profile."
3. Scroll down, past click oregon pat "Temporarily disable my account" successful the bottommost right.
4. Choose the crushed you are deactivating your relationship from the drop-down paper adjacent to "Why are you disabling your account?" and participate your password again.
5. Click oregon pat "Temporarily disable account."

The good print: If you privation to reactivate your account, log into the Instagram app.

How to download your Instagram data

From a computer:

Log into your account, and spell to your illustration representation past click Settings.

1. Click Privacy and Security.
2. Scroll to the Data Download conception and click Request Download.
3. Enter your email code and click Next.
4. Enter your Instagram relationship password and click Request Download.
5. You volition person an email with a nexus to your Instagram data. Click Download Data and travel the instructions to decorativeness downloading your information.

In the Instagram app:

1. Log into your account, and spell to your profile.
2. Tap connected the paper icon successful the apical close past pat Settings.
3. Tap connected security, past pat "Download Data"
4. Enter your email code and pat "Request download"
5. Enter your Instagram relationship password, and pat Next, past pat Done.
6. You volition person an email with a nexus to your Instagram data. Click Download Data and travel the instructions to decorativeness downloading your information.

From a mobile browser:

1. Log into your account, and spell to your profile.
2. Tap Settings successful apical near past pat Privacy and Security.
3. Scroll down to Data Download and pat Request Download.
4. Enter your email address and pat Next.
5. Enter your Instagram account password and pat Request Download.
6. You volition person an email with a nexus to your Instagram data. Click Download Data and travel the instructions to decorativeness downloading your information.

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