Like other Social media, Facebook has been becoming one of the emerging platforms for sharing thoughts and other updates. People around the globe are fond of this and like to share their updates automatically with other sites like Instagram and Twitter. Although, Facebook has already introduced the solution by synchronizing your updates with Instagram and vice versa, and you can be notified on both platforms without sharing your post/updates separately on each of them.
That’s cool…
but somehow, you may wish to use both accounts separately.
So first see why it may be good to disconnect the auto update of one account to another.
Why unlink Facebook and Instagram Accounts:
There may be some more reasons other than those stated below, but the main ones are here:
- You may post on one platform and Meta automatically posts this update to another one, so a user on both may be bored reading the repetitive post.
- There may be security risks if for any reason your one account is hacked then the hacker may access another to use it for negative purposes and you may face difficulty.
4 Ways to Unlink Facebook and Instagram Accounts:
If you want to disconnect both Instagram and Facebook accounts, then the following four methods are for you. You can use a smartphone app to unlink or can use the web to separate them accordingly.
One necessary thing to understand is that unlinking does not mean deactivating or deleting any account but it will simply unlink the synchronizing in such a way that you can not receive your account update from another account until you log in to access it separately.
The methods described below have some similar steps to follow, so just follow any of them to get the purpose.
1-Using Facebook App to unlink Instagram Account:
Follow the steps:
- Launch the Facebook app on your smartphone and tap on your Profile icon (located at the top right corner of your phone’s screen)
- Scroll down to find Privacy & Settings.
- Go to Settings and tap Meta Account Center.
- Scroll down to go to accounts.
- Tap the Remove button next to the account you want to remove. A confirmation window with a message to remove the account. Just tap Remove account.
- After that another window with lost features will displayed, just tap continue.
- Finally, in the next window tap Remove to unlink Facebook and Instagram accounts.
2-Use of Facebook Web to Disconnect Instagram Account:
Now we will use the Facebook web or desktop version to disconnect these two accounts.
- Login to your Facebook account by visiting Facebook’s official website and Click on your Profile icon.
- Go to Settings & Privacy and Open Settings.
- Go to the Meta Account Center (located on the left side of the windows)
- Go to Accounts and click on the Account you want to Remove.
- A new pop-up window will open, just click on Continue.
- A confirmation window will be opened. Click on Remove to unlink Instagram and Facebook accounts.
3-Use Instagram App to unlink Facebook Account:
Like the Facebook app, it is also very easy to disconnect Facebook and Instagram accounts.
- Launch the Instagram app and go for the Profile icon on your smartphone.
- Tap on the three horizontal lines that are located at the top right corner of a mobile screen.
- Scroll down for Settings & Privacy and go to Account Center.
- Scroll down and tap on Accounts.
- Now go for the account that you want to delete and tap on the Remove button.
- Tap the Remove button again. A confirmation window will appear, just tap on the continue button.
- After that you will get a final confirmation screen, so just tap Remove to unlink your Instagram
4-Use Instagram Web to unlink Facebook Account:
The fourth effective way to unlink the two social media accounts is the use of the Instagram web version. So do the steps:
- Log in to your Instagram account by visiting their official website and Click on the More icon (three horizontal lines located at the left of your Profile windows).
- Open Settings and go to the Meta Account Center (located on the left side of the windows)
- Go to Accounts and click on the Remove button next to the Account you want to Remove.
- A new pop-up window will open, just click on Continue.
- finally, a confirmation window will be opened. Click on Remove to unlink Instagram and Facebook accounts.
In this way, you can follow the steps from any of the above-elaborated methods to unlink your Facebook from your Instagram account.