Details on how to delete an account in Instagram

"Instagram" is a social network in which one can conduct a photographic record of one's life and communicate through pictures and their discussion. Over the past two years, it has become popular, but now more and more users began to wonder how to delete the account in Instagram? In the settings of the version for the phone or computer, you can not find the answer. If you do not need to have your own page, you should follow the instructions below. You will only need a few minutes and login information.

How to delete an account in Instagram from a mobile device

It's no secret that most often work with this social network from mobile devices on platforms:

• IOS;
• Android.

The advantage of them is that you can immediately take pictures and process the picture with the help of special filters to make it better. You do not need to expend effort and additional devices, as in the case of transferring files for publication on a computer.

How to delete an account in Instagram? In order to perform such an action, the mobile device is not suitable. In the interface of applications for gadgets (tablet PCs and smartphones) is not provided such an opportunity, so remember your registration data and contact a desktop computer or laptop. Remember that it must be connected to the Internet.

How to operate using a computer

In any browser, open the site Instagram.com, select the field for authorization, and go through the data that you entered during registration. Above you can see your name and avatar. Clicking on the nick once with the mouse, you will go to the profile editing page. Here you can change:

• Nick;
• own name;
• phone number;
• Information about yourself;
• Enter a link to your site or profile in any other social network;
• floor.

Below you will see the "send" button to save the changes, and next to it on the right there is a link to delete your profile. Go to it in a new window, where you need to confirm and explain your actions.

What reasons can I specify for removal?

Before you completely remove the data about yourself from the social network, you will need to answer the support question about the reasons. You can write the text yourself or choose one of the options listed in the list:

• You are not comfortable with the level of confidentiality.
• Administration often deletes your photos and comments.
• There is a second account in Instagram.
• You are distracted by having your own profile or not enough time to drive it.
• You did not find any subscribers or friends on this network.
• Often there are problems at startup.

If none of these reasons is suitable, then you can write your own text. After that, you just click on the button to deactivate your account. It draws attention in red from the bottom of the page. Your data will be immediately deleted.

Why did you delete your account?

If you yourself did not send a request to block or completely delete your profile, then it is possible for you to do it by scammers who have chosen a username and password. This happens, and not only with users with a small number of subscribers, but more and more often known people become victims.

Perhaps you yourself have never thought about how to delete an account in Instagram, but it turned out to be deactivated, and you can not go to it. In this case, it is worth remembering how often your comments and posts were often deleted. Perhaps this will give rise to reflection, why they deleted the account in Instagram. The administration can delete the profile if there are gross violations of the placement of information on it. A few complaints from other users on serious violations are sufficient, so that extreme measures are applied to you. Most often for small violations, the administration is limited to a temporary ban.

How to restore account in "Instagram"

If you got rid of your account, but after a while changed your mind and decided to restore it, then be prepared for the fact that this will not work for you. The server does not provide storage of data that the user previously decided to delete. In the history of this social network there were only a few cases when the administration was meeting the users, but they were stars with a lot of followers, for example, singer Rihanna.

Specialists of customer support on the question of how to restore the account in "Instagram", reply that this is impossible, and explain the ways out of this situation.

But you can regain your user name by drawing conclusions from this standard message:

• You can not use your old nickname together with a previously registered mail address.
• If you use an e-mail that has already been activated, you need to come up with a new name.
• To save your nickname, register again with another mailbox.

What will it give you? It will be easy for friends and subscribers to find you again, and you will save your social circle. The new profile will be absolutely clean, but you can fill it with photos from your archive.