Table of contents:
- How to download Instagram photos on your computer
- Delete your Instagram account temporarily
- Delete your Instagram account permanently
Who hasn't ever thought of abandoning social networks and returning to a life of privacy like the old days? Perhaps we have reached a time when the excess of information is overwhelming, where sometimes it seems more important to photograph the food than to eat it. Instagram has become the showcase of life for millions of people -has twice as many active users as Twitter – where billions of photos of people from all over the planet are stored.If you no longer want to continue sharing photos on Instagram you have the option to delete your account temporarily or permanently , something we are going to teach you how to do in this article. But fear not, you are not going to lose all those memories in the form of photos that you have been adding to the social network during all this time, we are also going to show you how to download them and save them forever privately.
Despite what it may seem, downloading our Instagram gallery to a computer's hard drive is very simple The time spent It will simply depend on the number of photos you have published. To start the process, we open the Instagram page on our computer and access our account. Once we have our account open, we open the web Instaport in another tab of the browser.Instaport is a free online service that by accessing our Instagram account, allows us to download all our photos or photos taken on a specific time period. It is very easy to use as you can see below.
Once we have entered the Instaport service, we access with our Instagram account and choose which options we want to export. We can choose to export all our photos or select a specific number of latest photos and even those published on a specific date.
And once we click on the option “Download your photos” our files will go directly to our hard disk as one more download.
Well, we already have our photos safe on the computer's hard drive so we are now going with deleting the account.
You may not be entirely sure and just want to get a taste of what life is like without Instagram before taking the step of deleting your account definitely. To do this you need to enter enter through the Instagram website in your profile and click on the option "edit profile" Once we enter the profile editing page we will see in the lower left margin an option called “Deactivate my account temporarily”, press about her. Instagram will ask us to indicate the reason why we want to suspend our accounttemporarily, so we simply indicate it through the drop-down offered and enter our credentials.Remember that your account will be reactivated the moment you access Instagram with your username and password from any device.
If you already have it clear and you want your photos to disappear forever from the largest photography social network on the web, we are going to give you the solution. Within the support center of the application itself, is provided- although it is not easy to find- this link to permanently delete your account . Instagram will ask us again why we want to delete our account in a last desperate attempt not to lose a user, we select again the option that we want and enter our access data. This option cannot be reversed, so make sure you have downloaded all your photos -as we explained at the beginning of the article- before applying it.
