If you don’t know social network how to delete an Instagram account, social media offers two options: you can disable your Instagram account temporarily, or you can delete it forever.
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If you choose the first option, you will be able to reactivate your Instagram account if you ever regret it. When it is temporarily disabled, no one will be able to find your account. The other option lets you delete it completely without any option for recovery.
How to delete an Instagram account forever?
The first thing you should know is that you must do this process from the browser, it is not possible to do it from the Instagram application. However, it can be done from the browser of your smartphone. You should log in to Instagram and open the following link: instagram.com/accounts/remove/request/permanent/
Once you are in, you must select one of the options in the list as a reason to delete your account. If none of them is relevant to you, you can choose “Other reason”, and then you will have to enter your password again.
When you do so, you can click on the red button that says “Delete my account permanently”. Remember, if you continue with this process until the end you will not be able to recover anything, not even photos, stories, videos, friends, likes, nothing.
You can always use the disabling option. By following this link you can disable your Instagram account temporarily. The process is almost the same, login, choose a reason, enter the password again and press the button.
This alternative process only hides your photos, comments, and likes until you reactivate your account when you log in again.