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Instagram has been acquired by Facebook a long time ago. But in recent times only, you can see messenger and FB messages appear on your Instagram screen.
If you have used Facebook in the past, you might have an idea that it was possible for Facebook users to link their account to their Instagram accounts. All you had to do was sync your Instagram account with your Facebook profile with a click. Now it is even easier than before. You can link your Instagram with Facebook or Facebook with Instagram interchangeably with ease.
Linked account:
Linking your Instagram account to Facebook account has a lot of benefits. You can post photos very easily to your Facebook profile. It becomes easier for your Facebook friends to find your Instagram account. Also, you can easily find your friends on Instagram. In fact, you don’t have to make two separate posts on each social network, just post it on Facebook and rehare it on Instagram without having to make it from scratch.
Separate Account:
Now it depends on your choice, some people like to go easy. So, they connect with all the social media platforms. But sometimes people do not like these interconnections between the apps. So, they separate them.
Reasons for Unlinking:
If you are running two different Instagram profiles, you may not want to connect each with your personal FB profile. You may be using one Instagram account for running and promoting your business, and the other one for communicating with the personal contacts. Separating your business Insta profile from your personal FB profile is also logical. You don’t want to mix your social contacts with the business ones. Therefore, you may wish to unlink your Instagram account from Facebook.
For you to keep your both social networking apps separate, you have to follow a few simple steps on both Instagram and Facebook.
Sometimes, receiving text notifications. From Instagram and Facebook can be annoying and irritating a lot of people complain about that, if you belong to the 1% of population that do not care much about linked accounts, then unlinking Instagram from Facebook might help you feel mentally relaxed. You won’t be hearing message tone while you are working, sleeping, working, and doing important chores.
How to unlink your Instagram from Facebook?
Most of the time people use social media on smartphones and smart laptop screens. So, surfing your Instagram from the web might be more or less complicated. People use Facebook on their smartphones, which can also be accessed through Facebook web pages. Here is a way on how you can separate and dysync both accounts from each other;
- First, open Instagram app on your smart phone.
- Now go to settings where you will find a name like “linked accounts > Facebook”.
- From there click on the unlinked account.
- A message will appear on your screen “you want to unlink your Facebook and Instagram account”. You have to click on yes sure.
How to unlink from web
Just one year ago, it was possible for Facebook users to unlink their Instagram accounts from browsers or on computers. But now this option has been removed.
If you ever look at your Facebook settings page you will come to know that the Instagram tab is no longer available there. It is not present in the left-hand list. So, unlinking the Instagram account from Facebook on the webpage is not available or very much impossible.
Can we disconnect Facebook from the Instagram webpage?
There are many people wondering how to disconnect these applications from each other on a webpage. Unfortunately, there is no option to do it in an easy way as of now. The only way to unlink these interconnected apps is through smartphones and tablets.
Removing it from android iOS
Before moving forward one thing that every user should keep in mind. And that is never try removing your Instagram account from Facebook page.
Whether you are using an Android or iOS device, you can unlink your social accounts from each other easily. It won’t take much time.
To unlink Instagram accounts from Facebook, all you have do it do is follow some steps, which are as follows:
- Go to your profile on your Android or iOS device.
- Click on the “setting”.
- Tap “Sharing to Other Apps”.
- Click on Facebook.
- Tap on “unlink account”
- Tap on “Yes”.
- Unlink to confirm
Once you click on “unlink to confirm”, your Instagram will be disconnected from your Facebook account. Enjoy your privacy on the social network. Post any image, video and content without having to worry about it going to Facebook. Your both social networks will operate separately, whatever you share with Instagram followers will stay there.
At the end, once you have unlinked your Instagram account from Facebook. Any new post on your Facebook will not appear on your Instagram.
You can remove any Instagram posts from Facebook as well just in case you don’t want it to appear there. All the pictures that you already shared and have not removed may still appear on Facebook posts.
However, for you to completely remove all the auto shared pictures from your Facebook page you should delete them manually. As they will not be deleted by default. Deleting them or not deleting them is up to you as we have explained in detail all the possible solutions of unlinking Instagram from Facebook.
