{"id":68873,"date":"2022-04-22T10:29:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/?p=68873"},"modified":"2023-02-21T16:00:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T00:00:21","slug":"how-to-delete-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/internet-culture\/how-to-delete-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"How to delete your Instagram account"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to remove yourself from the internet | #AskFirefox\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cZBYwK4kvIA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So you\u2019ve decided to shut down your Instagram account. Maybe you want to cleanse your digital space from its parent company, Meta. Perhaps you\u2019re tired of deleting the app only to reinstall it later. Whatever your reason, here\u2019s how to delete your Instagram:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/accounts\/remove\/request\/permanent\">https:\/\/instagram.com\/accounts\/remove\/request\/permanent<\/a> and log in, if you aren\u2019t already logged in.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You\u2019ll see a question about why you want to delete your account. Pick an option from the dropdown menu. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Re-enter your password.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on <strong>delete [username]<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When prompted, <strong>confirm<\/strong> that you want to delete your account. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You\u2019ll see a page saying your account will be deleted after a month. You\u2019ll be able to log in before then if you choose to keep your account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/help.instagram.com\/370452623149242\"><em>More information from Instagram<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With our lives so online, our digital space can get messy with inactive and unnecessary accounts \u2014 and forgetting about them can pose a security risk. You\u2019ll be off to a good start with <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/internet-culture\/how-to-delete-instagram-facebook-online-accounts\/\">our one-stop shop for deleting online accounts<\/a>, but it\u2019s far from exhaustive. So here\u2019s a bonus tip: <a href=\"https:\/\/monitor.firefox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sign up for Firefox Monitor.<\/a> It alerts you when your data shows up in any breaches, including on websites that you\u2019ve forgotten giving your information to. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you\u2019ve decided to shut down your Instagram account. Maybe you want to cleanse your digital space from its parent company, Meta. Perhaps you\u2019re tired of deleting the app only to reinstall it later. Whatever your reason, here\u2019s how to delete your Instagram: More information from Instagram With our lives so online, our digital space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1889,"featured_media":68800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461998],"tags":[],"coauthors":[464117],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to delete your Instagram account<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Follow the five steps you need to take in order to get rid of Instagram forever.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/internet-culture\/how-to-delete-instagram\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" 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