Tips to improve Instagram privacy

Social networks are a perfect place to communicate with other people and post everything that you want to share with others. However, it must be taken into account that by doing so we are exposing ourselves by offering relevant information to other people, which puts the Privacy, something that must always be taken into account since it is essential to be able to preserve privacy and that data and information do not reach the wrong people.

For this reason, it is essential that you always maintain control over all the information provided on social networks, always within everything possible, since, in one way or another, whenever you are a participant in one of these platforms and other similar services.

In this sense, it is important to know that all social networks have tools that are focused on preserving the intimacy and privacy of users, although in not all cases they do so with the same degree of accessibility and ease of use. In the case of Instagram, we have numerous options to control access to our information, profile and content, so it is very important that you take them into account to prevent all this data from reaching the wrong hands. If you want to protect your Instagram account as much as possible, then we will explain the steps you must follow to avoid any type of problem.

How to improve your privacy on Instagram

There are different ways to improve the privacy of your Instagram account. To do this you must follow the following tips or tricks:

Remove the permissions to the application

If you want to prevent Instagram from having access to different elements of your smartphone at the hardware level, such as the camera, the location or the microphone, for this it is advisable that remove app permissions.

However, if you do, you should know that this will prevent you from using the Instagram camera for Instagram Stories, you will not be able to geolocate photos, and so on. To remove all access permissions to Instagram on your smartphone, you will have to follow the following steps:

1. First you must go to the settings of your smartphone and access the applications menu, where you will have to search for Isntagram among all the installed apps. When you have located it you will have to access its configuration menu.
2. Then you must access Permissions and remove the permissions you gave the application in Storage. In this way you can share photos and videos with the app, both in conventional publications and in Instagram Stories. You will only have to take photos and videos with the phone's camera instead of Instagram's and then upload them from your gallery.

Turn off contact syncing

Instagram offers the possibility of synchronizing contacts to try to offer you suggestions on people to follow within its platform. To increase your level of privacy, it is advisable that you stop allowing this synchronization, for which you must follow the following steps:

1. First of all, you must go to your Instagram user profile, for which you must click on the icon of your profile that you will find in the lower right part of the screen. Then you must click on the button with the three horizontal bars that you will find in the upper right part of the screen.
2. Then you must click on Configuration, and then go to Account and then to Synchronization of contacts. Finally you will have to click on disable the function.

Unlink your Facebook account

Taking into account that Instagram belongs to Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg's company obtains a lot of data through the social network of images. For this reason, if you want to preserve your security, you must do the following:

1. First you must go to the options Account, for which you must go to Profile, then Configuration and then Account. Then you must go to the section Linked accounts.
2. If you had the Facebook account and the Instagram account linked, it will appear in blue in the list. You must click on it and click on Unlink account.
3. Later you must click on accept and both accounts would already be unlinked. Thus you will not have access to the recovery of the Instagram account from Facebook.

Deactivate apps and services with access to your account

Over time, it is usual to grant access to different third-party applications and services in order to enjoy additional functionalities and services. This is the case of applications focused on sharing images, downloading Instagram Stories, etc. All these applications continue to collect data and information even if you have only used them once.

In this case, to withdraw the access permission to the Instagram account you must do the following steps:

1. First you must enter the Instagram settings and then you will go in the menu to Security, to then go to the option Web applications and services.
2. There you will have to go to Active and then remove to eliminate access and revoke that they have access to your data in those applications that you no longer use or are not interested in. The recommendation is that you regularly delete them all and, when you need them, grant them access again in a timely manner. In this way you will enjoy greater security and protection of your data.

Like this type of functions and parameters to make adjustments, you can protect Instagram stories and other functions by personalizing the people who have access and who do not have access to the publications you make, so that you can achieve that everything you do on the platform can only be seen by the people you care about.

To do this, you can improve your privacy by making your account private, in addition to blocking the stories from those you don't want to see them, preventing people from responding to your stories or not being able to share the stories.