Meta launched Threads in early July and as curious Instagram customers signed up for the brand new text-oriented service, it grew to 100 million customers in simply 5 days. Nonetheless, customers rapidly realized that this was a one-way avenue – when you activated a Threads account, the one strategy to delete it was to delete your complete Instagram account. Was.
Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri introduced that this restriction has now been lifted. Customers who need to give up Threads can go to Settings > Account > Delete or Deactivate Profile. Because the identify suggests, this offers you the choice to quickly droop your account or to completely delete it. Both method, your Instagram account is not going to be affected.
Now you can delete your Threads account with out affecting your Instagram account
Meta not too long ago modified the way it reveals Threads put up and so they now floor on different Meta platforms like Fb. The second change introduced immediately is which you can restrict this – head over to Settings > Privateness for that. Be aware that this solely applies to Fb and never Instagram, which is able to proceed to point out your Threads posts regardless.