How to Delete Your Threads Profile (Keep Instagram)

In Threads, open Settings › Account › Deactivate or delete profile. You can now delete Threads without deleting your Instagram account.

Steps

1. Open Threads and go to your profile.
2. Tap the menu icon, then Settings › Account.
3. Choose Deactivate or delete profile.
4. Pick delete, then confirm.

Deactivate or delete?

During the waiting period you can log back in to cancel deletion.

Instagram stays

When Threads launched, deleting it meant deleting Instagram too. Meta has since separated them, so deleting a Threads profile leaves your Instagram account untouched.

Before deleting

• Download your Threads data from Accounts Center.
• Save posts you want to keep.
• Tell followers where else to find you.

Other options

• Make your Threads profile private.
• Turn off notifications.
• Take a break by deactivating.
• Stop sharing your posts to the fediverse in settings.

Fediverse sharing

If you turned on sharing to the fediverse, copies of posts may exist on other servers. Deleting your profile asks those servers to remove them, but Threads cannot control every server.

Instagram itself

To delete Instagram too, use Accounts Center. If your Instagram is disabled rather than unwanted, see Instagram account disabled.

On the website

On threads.net, open the menu, choose Settings, and find the account section. The steps are the same as in the app.

What happens to your replies

Your replies on other people's posts are deleted with your profile. Quotes or reposts others made of your posts may show as unavailable.

Using the same Instagram username later

Threads uses your Instagram username. If you delete Threads and want to come back later, you can create a new Threads profile from the same Instagram account, but old posts and followers will not return.

Teens

Teen accounts follow the same Instagram supervision tools, and parents using supervision can see some settings.

If you only want to stop seeing Threads posts in Instagram, you can hide Threads suggestions in Instagram settings without deleting anything.

Profile set to private

If you only want fewer people to see your posts, set your Threads profile to private instead. Only approved followers will see what you post, and you keep your history.

FAQ

How do I delete my Threads account?

Settings › Account › Deactivate or delete profile.

Does deleting Threads delete Instagram?

No, not anymore.

Can I undo deleting Threads?

Yes, by logging in during the waiting period.

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