how to delete an instagram account both temporarily and permanently?(with images)

How to delete an instagram account temporarily/permanently?(with images)

Are you distracted by instagram? It is not hard to take a break from it, you can easily delete your instagram account and take a short or permanent break from it.

There are two ways to delete an instagram account, delete your account temporarily or permanently.

If you want to delete your instagram account then follow the steps given below.

How to delete your instagram account temporarily?

After temporarily deleting your account you will be able to access it any time but as long as you will not re access the account  will not be show on instagram.
You data will be not deleted after deleting your instagram temporarily.

In this section there are 6 simple steps to delete your instagram account temporarily.

Step 1. Visit to www.instagram.com and login by entering your instagram id and password.

Step 2. After login your account you will be landed on home page of your instagram account, after that you  have to click on profile icon on right-down corner in your screen.

Step 3. Click on the setting icon available on upper-left corner in your screen.

Step 4. After clicking on setting icon you will see a menu bar opened, you will get some options in that bar as edit profile, nametag, change password, privacy and security, login activity, emails on instagram etc. you have to click on the edit profile option.

Step 5. After clicking on edit profile option you will be landed on a new page, you have to scroll down to the end then you will see a blue text written as 'temporarily disabled my account' in right-down corner of your screen. you have to click on that text.

Step 6. After that you will land on another new page there you have to enter the reason for deleting your account you can enter any reason given there but if you don't want to specify your reason then just enter 'something else' after that you will be asked to re-enter your password, you have to enter your instagram account's password which you want to delete and then click on 'temporarily disabled my account' button available on the bottom side, your account will be successful temporarily disabled.

How to re gain your temporarily disabled instagram account?-  if you want to re-gain your account after deleting it temporarily then you have to just re login your account by entering your instagram id and password.

How to delete your instagram account permanently?

If you will delete your instagram account permanently then you will  never be able to access it again and all of your data such as images and videos will be permanently deleted.

In this section, there are 7 simple  steps to delete your instagram account permanently.

Step1. Visit to www.instagram.com and login by entering your instagram id and password.

Step 2. After login your account you will be landed on home page of your instagram account after that you  have to click on profile icon on right-down corner in your screen.

Step 3. Click on the setting icon available on upper-left corner in your screen.

Step 4. After clicking on setting icon you will see a menu bar opened in that bar you will get many options related to accounts, settings and about  you have to scroll down and in about section you will get a 'Help center' option click on that.

Step 5. After that you will be landed on a new page in which you will get many options to solve you queries, scroll down and you will see a option 'Take a break from instagram', click on that.

Step 6. You will land on a new page, here you will get three questions like 'how do i temporarily disabled my instagram account?', 'how do i delete my instagram account?' and ' how do i access or review my data on instagram?, you have to click on 'how do i delete my instagram account?'

You will see a long page open, you have to scrool down a little, you will see a blue text written as 'Delete your account', click on that (before deleting your account you can download you all instagram data like photos and videos, to download your data click on 'download a copy' text written in blue there).

Step 7. After clicking on 'Delete your account' text you will land on a new page where you have to give reason for deleting your account you can select any option given there but if you do not want to specify your reason then you can enter 'something else' after that you will be asked to re enter your instagram password, write your password there and then click on delete button down there, after 1 or 2 week you account will be successfully permanently deleted after that you will be never able to access your old account.

Pros and cons of using instagram

As you know in the world everything have its own pros and cons and this rule is also apply for social media platforms like instagram if you will know the pros and cons of a thing then you could be able to use that for your goodness.

In this section i have explained some major pros and cons of using instagram which will help you to decide whether you should delete your instagram account or not.

Pros of using instagram.

1.Grow your business:- As you know instagram has millions of users, so it is little easy to get more audiences for your business profile and increase your reach.

2. Connectivity:- Instagram connect with many people, imagine you have no contact with your childhood best friend and suddenly you see a profile suggestion and that came up of your childhood best friend's, that would be an awesome feeling.

3. Learning:- There are a lot of instagram profiles which provide quality contents on their pages in image or video format you can learn many things from them.

4. Inspiration:- you can be updated about your favourite celebrity or any body who inspire you and following them will inspire you constantly in your work and daily life.

Cons of using instagram.

1. Addictive:- Social media like instagram may be addictive for people because on instagram there are many memes and entertainment pages on which regular contents have been posted, to prevent addiction you should not follow any meme or entertainment pages and try to control scrolling or you may take break from instagram 1 or 2 days in a week.

2. Show off:- As you know that instagram has a very huge user base and it has potential to gave overnight fame so many users just show off and show a fake life of them in greed for fame.

3. Fake news:- Due to large user base of instagram it is very easy to spread fake news in public which may leads to big riots. Before sharing any news it is your responsibility to double check that news.
 
4. Trolling :- It is very common for celebrities to get hate comments and trolls on instagram if you have a big follower base then you have to be very aware while posting anything, never post anything that may hurt peoples.