How To Know If Someone Deleted Their Instagram: Instagram, like so many other social media platforms, has weaved its way into society as a means of connection and self-promotion. But on strange cases, you would notice that an Instagram account is nowhere to be found in your feed. This can make you curious and ambiguous, are they deleted their account? Were you blocked? Or did something else happen? There are some sign and ways to know that any account has been deleted from Instagram which we will discuss through this article.
What does statuses on the instagram mean
Before we get into how to know if someone deactivates their account, let’s take a look at what Instagram statuses mean:
- Active Account: An account that a user is using regularly on Instagram, doing anything either posting or something else.
- Deactivated: The user voluntarily displayed a notice of not using the account temporarily only and can resume reactivation at any time.
- Accounts Deleted: This user’s account has been deleted leaving no trace of their content or intereactions.
- You are seeing a blocked account: that means this person shut down your access to their profile or any action on Instagram.
- Account Disabled: Instagram may disable the account for violating their policies leaving it as unreachable.
How to Locate the Deleted Instagram Account
1. Search Results
If you want to know if someone deleted their Instagram account, simply type in his username in the search bar.
No Longer Exists: If their username does not show up in the search results, then it means they have deleted their account. Alternatively, they have entered another name or blocked you.
2. Checking Past Interactions
Scroll back through your interactions with this person, i.e. direct messages/comments/likes ect.
Empty Profile: If you are able to see their comments or likes on posts but once clicked on user profile, it is an empty account then a message like “User not found” may indicate that the account has been deactivated.
3. Mutual Friend Inquiry
If you share mutual friends, ask them if they can check to see if the account is visible.
Unable To Locate Account Via Mutual Friends: If your mutual friends can not find the account, it is probably because the account has been deleted.
4. Attempt to Access via URL
You can also experiment with visiting their profile via entering the URL in a browser (http:-//-instagram.com/-gstibb :- gsterr)
Errors: If the URL that was previously registered returns an error page saying ‘Sorry, this members has been deleted’, it most likely means that direct link to account is no longer available. But this error could also occur when user has change his username or Instagram have disabled the account.
5. Third-Party Tools
You can find third-party tools and apps claiming that you could check the status of an Instagram account using their service.
Note: Be careful, do not use any of these tools as you might know that they are likely to break the leg or Instagram will suspend their service.
Deletion, deactivation and blocking are 3 different acts.
Deactivation vs. Deletion
Off weeks: If someone takes their account off Instagram, you cannot see her profile or her posts — like she has deleted the standard. The difference is of course, that when they choose to reactivate their account everything will be as if nothing had happened.
Permanent Deletion: When an account is deleted permanently, all data disappears and the account cannot be recovered.
Blocked vs. Deleted
Blocked: If someone blocks you, where do all the info of their profile disapear? But their profile is still there and can be viewed by anybody who has not been blocked.
No Activity: If the person you blocked already deleted their account, we noticed that this always found they couldn’t see us anymore.
What to Do If You Think a Deletion Happened
Here are the ways to find out if you think someone has deleted their Instagram account:
- Perform a Double-Check: Check if this account is actually deleted using the methods as described above.
- Contact Person: If you can, then contact that person through other medium (phone, email any other social media platforms) and enquire about his Instagram account.
- Wait: Accounts are sometimes deactivated or disabled temporarily, and they can eventually be restored. Lee Mes Entrepreneur, writer (and now podcaster) Wait a few days before coming to conclusions.
- Respect their Privacy: If a person removed his/her account on Instagram, they did it for some reasons and does not have to share if he/she doesn´t want this. Well their reasons could be personal.
Conclusion
To be sure a person has removed the account of Instagram you must observe some details, because sometimes it is only hidden. You can use this guide to know if the account has been deleted, deactivated, or else. But in the end, it is important to not infringe upon others; we respect their choices and expectations on social media.
