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title: "How to de-activate my Instagram account ?"  
description: "How to de-activate my Instagram account ?"  
author: "Aniruddh Singh"  
published: 2017-12-07  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31468/how-to-de-activate-my-instagram-account  
category: "social networking"  
tags: ["instagram"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# How to de-activate my Instagram account ?

How to de-activate my [Instagram account](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/37737/how-can-i-get-a-verification-budge-from-my-instagram-account) ?

## Answers

### Answer by Vishal Kesarwani

In **Instagram the account isn’t deactivated** however, **you can temporarily disable it** and as after you **disable your Instagram account all your photos, videos, profile, comments, and likes will get hide until the time you reactivate your account.** \
Whenever you **feel an urge of using Instagram** you can easily **login with your same id and password** and your profile will **get restored** which means all your likes, comments and posts will get restored once again just the way you left it.**Follow these step to temporarily disable your Instagram account:**

- Log in to your Instagram account with a device tablet/laptop/mobile etc.
- Go to your profile
- Tap or click on the option which is given on the top right.
- Click or tap on the edit profile option.

![How to de-activate my Instagram account ?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/9472fa01-8f25-4ab5-aa70-d9f78bbee2bb/images/ba2937e5-6991-4f65-8bd6-b4db6a2bcf4e.png)\

- Scroll down a bit and then click on the option “temporarily disable my account” which will be at bottom right.

- Tap or click on “Temporarily Disable Account”.
- As after you tap or click on it asks you for a reason that why are you disabling your account?

![How to de-activate my Instagram account ?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/9472fa01-8f25-4ab5-aa70-d9f78bbee2bb/images/b11af181-0802-478d-953f-012eb6caad0a.png)\

- Once again Instagram will ask you to log in just to verify it’s you who is disabling the account.
- As after you log in again your account will get disabled until the time you re-login on Instagram.

**"I hope you find it informative"**


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