How to Disable Instagram: 3 Easy Peasy Steps to Take Some Distance from Social Media for a Moment

How to Temporarily Disable Instagram

It is tiring to keep scrolling endlessly on your Instagram feed from time to time, right? Now, you can take a break and enjoy your "real" life as a whole without being connected with your Instagram account. In this step, we will show you step-by-step how to temporarily disable an Instagram account in a short period, so you can make it active a time after your "break" time is over. Your content and followers would disappear for a period of time and when you come back again, everything will stay the same as when you leave it. So, follow these steps.

Step 1. Log in to your Instagram account from your mobile browser or computer browser, because Instagram does not offer to disable your account from the Instagram app.

Step 2. Then, tap on your profile icon to find the Edit Profile button.

Step 3. Click on the Edit Profile button and you will find several options. 

Step 4. Then, select on Temporarily disable my account option and you need to choose the reason why you want to disable your account.

Step 5. After that, click on the Confirm button and your Instagram account will disable, so your followers can not find your account or contact you for some period.

How to Disable Instagram Account

In these following step-by-step on how to disable Instagram, you can not get your account back because by following these steps, Instagram will permanently delete your account. So, you need to think about it multiple times to let all of your photos, comments, and followers are gone and you can not able to recover them.

Step 1. Go to the Instagram account deletion page and log in to your account. Then, click on the drop-down menu of the option which asking you "Why are you deleting your account?" and select your reason.

Step 2. After that, you will be brought to a page where you need to re-enter your password to confirm that was really you who want to delete your account.

Step 3. Once it is done, click on the "Permanently delete my account" at the bottom of the page with a red button.

Step 4. Done! Your Instagram account will disappear in no time!

How to Disable Instagram Comments

Found some annoying comments on the photos you recently post on your Instagram feed? Or maybe you just want to post some random photos which may raise some “loud” opinions? Then, just simply turn it off so no one can bother you with malicious comments. Here the steps on how to disable Instagram comments.

Step 1. Landing on your Profile Page from your Instagram app on your device.

Step 2. Then, from your Profile Page, tap the Reels icon in the middle to see all your Instagram Reels. Click it and tap the 3-dot menu at the top right corner of the page.

Step 3. Find out the Turn Off Commenting and click it. That's it!

Such an easy-peasy steps to take some distance from social media for a moment, right?