How to delete Instagram account from iPhone
Until recently, we could not delete the Instagram account from the iPhone, but only deactivate it for a period of time. With the new rules imposed by Apple on application developers, deleting the Instagram account from the iPhone has become possible.
The main purpose of companies that own social networks such as Meta, is to gather around them as many users as possible. For this to be possible, first of all, the registration process must be very simple. To open an account Instagram, Facebook or Twitter from your mobile phone, it doesn't take more than 1 minute.
But if we want to we delete the account of Instagram or Facebook from the smartphone, the process is more complicated. This more complicated process of deleting accounts from social networks is of course also part of the strategy of the companies that own the social networks.
Apple always makes efforts to make the user experience as simple and pleasant as possible in applications. In this sense, application developers must comply with some strict rules imposed by Apple, because the applications iOS to be present in App Store. And Review Guidelines which all developers must take into account when making an application for iPhone, iPad or Mac.
Through App Store Review Guidelines 5.1.1, the company requests all iOS app developers who assume creating an account, to offer users and account deletion option.
Instagram is one of the applications that did not offer users the possibility to delete accounts from the iPhone, but only to deactivate them. For Apple, this option was not enough, and in the latest update of the application for iOS, users have the possibility to delete the entire Instagram account.
How can we delete the Instagram account from the iPhone?
1. Open the application Instagram pe iPhone and we go to Profile.
2. We go to the menu with three horizontal lines in the upper right part of the application, then to Settings.
3. In Settings I press on Account.
4. Scroll down to the option Delete Account. Account Deactivation Button (Deactivate account) is the highlighted one. It is easy to understand, Meta does not want to lose users. Below this button, less highlighted is the button Delete account.
5. Press on Delete account, then we confirm on Continue deleting account.
In this way, we managed to delete the Instagram account from the iPhone, without having to access the account from a computer to do so.
The Meta company still has a problem with the user experience and has a policy of harassing users by any means. Once the deletion of the Instagram account is selected, it will not be deleted immediately as it would normally be. It will remain inactive for 30 days, so that the data will then be deleted. We hoped that it would be permanent.
If during these 30 days you accidentally log in to the Instagram account you wanted to delete, it will be reactivated and the Instagram account deletion request will be cancelled.
