How To Permanently Delete your Instagram Account (Complete Guide 2018)

Permanently Delete your Instagram Account: Are you getting tired of using social media all day and want to take a break? Want to spend some cool time with your family without using social media? Then the best way is to delete or temporarily disable your social media account. Today, In this article we will share the steps to permanently delete your Instagram account.

Instagram is very popular social media app nowadays. Some people messaged me to write a post on How to permanently delete the Instagram account?

There are several reasons to permanently delete the account like someone have hacked your account or you spent a lot of time on Instagram. Whatever can be the reason. So, without wasting time let’s see How to permanently delete the Instagram Account?

Delete Your Instagram Account

Remember, Once you permanently delete your Instagram account then you will lose your every data and you will not be able to recover your account with that username again. So, before proceeding make 100% sure that you don’t need that account anymore. Once it is done, You will not be able to recover it.

Steps to delete your Instagram account permanently are given below:

1. Go to this Link from your mobile or PC
2. Log in to your account
3. From the drop-down menu, Select the reason for deletion of an account. This is compulsory to proceed to next step.
4. You have to enter your password again 
5. After that click on Permanently Delete My Account button below. 

You are done. Your Instagram account has been deleted permanently now. All your data and everything has been deleted permanently. There is no other way to recover that data. So, before deleting your account permanently you should take the backup of your data using third-party apps.

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Disable Your Instagram Account

Sometimes you need a break from Instagram, Facebook and all. So, At that time you can temporarily disable your Instagram account. If you disable your account, No one will be able to see your profile on Instagram. You can reactivate your account using the same username and password to access your account again.

Steps to disable instagram account:

1. Visit Instagram.com
2. Login with your account
3. Tap on Profile icon on the right side
4. Tap on Edit Profile
5. Scroll to the last and Tap on  Temporarily disable my account 
6. In the drop-down, menu select why are you doing this?
7. Enter your password again 
8. Finally, Tap on Temporarily disable account. 

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Trouble Logging In

If your account is hacked then you will not be able to log in with the same id and password and without logging in to the account you will not be able to disable your account.

Now, you can follow these steps to get your password:

1. Launch the Instagram app
2. Just below the login details Tap On Get help signing in  
3. If you are android user then Use username or email, Send an SMS, or Log in with Facebook.
4. If you are iOS user then select Username or Phone in which you are comfortable. 
5. After that follow the steps according to the option you opted

Now, If your account is hacked then you will not be able to continue with this procedure. So, Tap on Need more Help  

Now, you can tell instagram that your account is hacked and also mention your old passwords and some information that proves that you are the owner of that account.

This is all to delete the instagram account properly. Using these steps you can easily disable your instagram account and still if you face any problem then please let us know in the comments. You can also email us your query. Hope this article is helpful for you. For more informative articles like this visit our website daily and don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter.