Instagram accounts are really great once you want to create an audience for your business. People also use it to urge a sneak peek into their favorite celebrity’s life; however, sometimes staying active on social media for hours can affect your personal life and you’ll want to urge an opportunity . Whatever is that the reason, you’ll easily take some time faraway from your Instagram account by simply deactivating it rather than permanently deleting your Instagram account; follow the given steps to deactivate your Instagram account.
- Open the Instagram app and log into your account
- Tap the profile icon given at the bottom of the page
- Then tap the menu icon given in the top-right corner of the screen
- Tap ‘Settings’
- Then tap the ‘Help’ option and go to ‘Help Centre’
- You will be directed to a new page on your mobile browser where you will see some options; tap ‘Managing your account’
- You will see the message ‘The requested page could not be found’
- In the search box, type your query ‘How Do I Temporarily Disable my Instagram Account?’ and select the same from the drop-down menu.
- On the next page, you will see the message that you have to login to instagram.com on a computer; you cannot disable your account from within the app; however, you can also do it using the mobile browser; simply tap ‘instagram.com’
- Again login to your Instagram account; tap the profile icon at the bottom; then tap ‘Edit Profile’
- Scroll down and you will see the option ‘Temporarily disable my account’; tap that.
- On the next page, you can go through the information regarding disabling your account, and then you have to select the reason for doing so. Tap the drop-down menu for ‘Why are you disabling your account?’ and re-enter your password
- Finally, tap ‘Temporarily Disable Account’
