How to know if someone deleted their account on instagram

Isn’t it surprising when someone you know and are mutual’s with on Instagram suddenly disappears without informing? This misleads to unnecessary confusion about whether the person has deleted his/her account or not.

At present, Instagram has become one of the most popular social media platforms globally. It offers multiple interesting features to millions of users. 

Its service makes people so overwhelmed that they always enjoy surfing on this virtual platform without even caring about time. And this is the main reason some people choose to delete or deactivate their account after a particular period.

Instagram has the feature of privacy protection too. So, when someone blocks you, deactivates, or leaves Instagram permanently, you won’t get it so easily. Then, how do you know what’s happened with their account? Explore the article to get clear about it.

Deleting VS Deactivating

• Deleting:

Deleting an Instagram account means being inactive permanently. Once you delete it, you will not have access to your account again and won’t be able to recover it anymore.

But if you make up your mind to join Instagram again after deleting the account, then you have to create a completely new account.

• Deactivating:

Deactivating refers to the temporary deletion of the account. And it means you are not active in your account for a short period.

After deactivating, you do not need to open a new account to use Instagram again. Just log in and you can reuse your account.

Below are certain things you can follow to know if someone has deleted his/her Instagram account-

Search for the Instagram Profile:

If you cannot see any likes, comments, or posts of someone and you want to know if they have deleted their Instagram account, search for the profile of that person on your own first.

Open a browser, type ‘Instagram.com’, and also add a slash after that. Then, type the username of the person and press ‘enter’. If the message ‘Sorry, the page isn’t available’ appears in front of you, the person has either deleted or deactivated that account.

Also, if you find the message ‘ User not found ’, it means the person has blocked you.

Verify If the Username is Unchanged or Not:

There can be one more case where the person might have changed his/her username. In such a scheme, using the old username you cannot find that person. 

So, to confirm it, go to the ‘Following’ on your profile and search for that person. If you can find him/her, it’s just the username has been changed. Otherwise, the person probably has deleted his/her account.

Check Being Logged Out:

There is also a way to identify the fact if the person has deleted the Instagram account or not. For this, you have to log out from the device you are using to verify the missing person’s profile.

Once you are no longer logged in to the device, copy that person’s profile URL, paste it on the web, and search. If you can see the profile, then you have been blocked by him/her.

But if you cannot see the profile, it clears that the account has been deleted.

Ask a Friend Who Has an Instagram Account:

You may ask some of your friends to check the profile for you. If your friend searches for that person and cannot find his/ her profile, then be sure that the person has deleted his/her account. 

But if your friend can see the profile, then it might be that the person has blocked you.

Search Using a Fake Account:

You can make a fake account to get rid of this problem. Using the fake profile, you can verify if the person’s Instagram account is available or not. 

If you cannot find the profile of the person, then it is sure that the person has deleted his/her account.

The disappearance of Likes & Reacts:

If the person you are looking for ever liked your posts, then you can easily identify if his/her account has been deleted or not. 

Check if the likes and reactions are still in on your post. If that person has actually deleted the account, all likes & reactions will disappear definitely and you cannot see them anymore.

Check Out the Hashtags:

Another way is searching for hashtags. There might be two cases of finding the profile through hashtags- profile delete or block. So, you have to look out for the main reason.

All you have to do is just take the hashtags link and then open the link from a different account or friend’s account or on incognito mode.

If you find the previous posts with the hashtags from your friend’s profile or another account you use, then be clear that the person has blocked you. But if you cannot see the hashtags, then the person has probably deactivated or deleted his/her account.

Go through Your Saved List:

If you are looking for some Instagram posts of someone else on your account which are missing from your list now, it indicates that the person has blocked you or deleted his/her account from Instagram.

You can give it a try for verification if you have already saved the bookmark of those posts. Use the post URL without an account and start checking. 

If you cannot see those posts, then the person might have deleted that account which is the reason behind the removal of your saved posts.

Conclusion

You might come across several posts of someone who is your mutual friend on Instagram. But it may happen that you cannot find him/her nowadays as if he/she left Instagram all of a sudden.

In this case, what should you do to be confirmed his/her account status? You should check if the account is deleted or not.

This article clearly explained all the possibilities of being inactive on Instagram and the solution to check every status. 

You can open another account to verify if that person has blocked you or deactivated or deleted his/her account. Some friends can be of help too. Using incognito mode is a straightforward way to take the checks.

Thus, going through the whole article it would be clear to you how to know if someone has deleted their Instagram.

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