Account in Instagram: delete or pause?

Instagram is considered to be one of the most popular social platforms for the majority of Internet users, as well as a platform with rich opportunities to promote your own business. Nevertheless, sometimes it happens that the blogger for some reason decided to remove his page from the social network, and how to do it correctly does not know. In this publication we will teach you how to delete a profile in Instagram and try to answer the most common questions related to deactivating your account in Insta.

Why delete a profile?

Indeed, why remove from such a good social network where you can get a lot of positive viewing interesting content, where it is easy and easy to get acquainted with a huge number of people and find among them friends where you can practically announce investments to the whole world about your own business, tell the audience about hobbies and interests? As already mentioned above, the reasons to remove your profile from the social network Instagram is quite a lot and everyone has their own. Consider only the most common.

In Insta there is a user agreement, which describes the rules for using the service, duties and responsibilities of the parties. We must honestly admit that it is rarely read by anyone, and some people do not know about its existence. However, after a careful study of this document, many users have questions, especially with the point where the Insty leadership reserves the right to manage the content of participants for commercial purposes. Agree, very few people want to on his "fotochkah" extraneous uncles and aunts earned "money", especially when in this process, the participation of the owner is not provided.

• The first reason is the possible use of users' photos for commercial purposes.

Initially, Insta was an ordinary photobank with the ability to evaluate content by users. Gradually, the functionality of the platform increased significantly, which made it a very attractive platform for business. This quickly understood one "simple American programmer" Mark Zuckerberg, (and concurrently owning one of the largest social networks Facebook), and bought Insta at a "similar" price.

After the purchase of Instagram, the policy changed, and the platform was heavily used to earn "American" money: all sorts of PR and marketers, the owners of business profiles began to overpower users with their advertising.

• The second reason is the abundance of advertising in the news line.

There is one more reason why the user wants to delete his profile from Instagram: the invested funds did not justify the purpose of creating the page in Insta. It is fair to say that in most such cases, the owner does not go to such drastic measures to permanently delete the profile, but temporarily blocks his account for the revision of marketing policy.

Account lockout: step-by-step instructions

It should be understood that while your page is locked, your page will be hidden from the field of view of the Internet audience. So, what needs to be done?

• enter the application from your computer or smartphone using the browser;
• go to your profile and select the item to edit it;
• select the item "Temporarily block ...";
• indicate (from the proposed list) the reason for your decision;
  
• Enter the password and confirm your intention.

After these steps, your page will become inaccessible to the audience, until you re-activate it. Further, for the sake of simplicity of understanding, we will build our further narrative in the question-and-answer style.

Question: Is it possible to deactivate an account in Insta?

Answer: Of course, but the removal process is available exclusively from the web version of the Instagram application.

Important! It should be understood that removing your account from Insta, you will not be able to register a new one, under the same name and to the same mail.

Q: How do I delete an Instagram account using a mobile application?

Answer: no way. As you know, the number of participants determines the popularity of the social network. To avoid the desire to delete their data and content (which the Insta can use for commercial purposes) from the site, there is no such option in the mobile application. Rather, it was, but now the tab with operations for deactivating the page has been removed by developers from the profile settings of the mobile application.

Now it is hidden from prying eyes very deeply in the appropriate section of the user agreement (which, as already noted above, or who does not read). Next, we will give a step-by-step instruction on how to delete your Instagram page from the phone.

Question: How do I delete a profile in Instagram via a computer?

Answer: for a permanent deactivation of an account in this social network, you should perform a number of simple actions:

• Start the browser;
• in the search box, paste the address: https://www.instagram.com/accounts/remove/request/permanent/;
• enter your registration data;
• In the corresponding menu of the opened tab, you should specify the reasons for deactivating the page.

Then click the button "Permanently deactivate account".

Question: how to delete profile in Instagram from phone?

Answer: a normal phone will not help you, but a smartphone or tablet is another matter. Consider the process of deactivating the Instagram Account from the most common devices running on Android and iOS.

Question: how to delete profile in Instagram via phone iPhone?

Answer: as mentioned above, the account deletion function is not provided in the mobile application (for all types of platforms). To conduct this event with an iPhone you will need:

• Log in to your profile using your browser.

• Go to the removal page at: https://www.instagram.com/accounts/remove/request/permanent/

Further, everything, as described above: specify the reason for deactivation and confirm the action.

Question: how to delete a page in Instagram via phone on Android?

The answer is: in principle, the actions on devices running on Android are practically the same as the removal procedure on a PC or IOS. Consider a more complex way, without going over the link discussed above.

• log in to your Instagram account via your smartphone browser;
• go to the profile editing tab;
• At the bottom of the list there is a clause with a question about the recommendation of similar accounts. Click on the active question mark icon;
  
• on the page of the Insta help center in the left column select "account management", then click on "delete";
• in the right part of the page a window will open where you need to click on the item "How to delete ...".

Further everything is simple, follow all the actions recommended by the reference center: specify the reason; enter the password and confirm your desire by clicking the uninstall button.

Question: How to delete the page in the Insta from the phone Samsung?

Answer: as mentioned above, the phone without access to the Internet in the process of deactivation of the Instagram Profile is not your assistant (even such a wonderful one as Samsung). If your Samsung, after all, is a smartphone, then it is running Android.

In order to delete a profile from this social network, you should select any of the above ways: go to the delete page at the direct address https://www.instagram.com/accounts/remove/request/permanent/ or enter the corresponding page through editing the profile; the help center; account management, etc.

How to delete a profile in Instagram if you forgot your password?

Typically, most users decide to delete the profile after a long "standstill" of the page. Decrease in activity usually leads to the fact that a person simply forgets the password from his instalgram account, which is necessary to confirm his intentions to deactivate the profile. What to do in this situation?

1. Launch the application.
2. Click on the button, "help with the entrance."

If you have a smartphone on Android, then you can reset the password in three ways (choose the right one):

• name or email address;
• SMS;
• Log in via Facebook.

If you are using a mobile device on iOS then the following ways of reset are available for you:

• name of the user.
• phone.

After entering the required data, click: "Send link."

Then, after clicking on the link, enter a new password, sign in to the application and follow the scheme described above: go to the account deletion page: https://www.instagram.com/accounts/remove/request/permanent/ .

Alternative method: stop activity

If you do not want to block or completely delete your page in Insta, then you can simply delete all the content, remove all information from the profile, clear the lists of subscriptions and subscribers, unbind the avatar. As a result, you will receive a completely clean account that will allow you to start a "new life" in the social network without changing your registration data.

How else can I use the profile: sell, re-arrange, donate ...?
If you are tired of wasting time to post and view photos in Instagram, then the untwisted profile can be easily sold, and earned on this transaction "denyuzhku" to invest in a more promising occupation, for example, to buy books and do self-education. You can do it directly through the announcement in an instagram account or on specialized services: "instaforum.ru"; trade-groups.ru, etc.

A popular account in Insta can be a good gift, especially if you first monetize it. It is enough just to re-arrange your profile and transfer registration data to a person. If desired, the new owner will always be able to change the data, including mail and link the account to pages in other social networks.

Conclusion

In this article we tried to answer the most common questions related to deleting the profile in Instagram. After completing all the steps described above, you will easily get rid of your addiction (and get a new one) to spend hours of your life in the social network Instagram, and maybe find time for study, fruitful work, master new skills or, finally, go deep into your hobby. As you can see, everything is quite simple, the main thing is only to decide on such a radical step and not regret it later.

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