Facebook-owned social media used to have access to your contact details, which include WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram. But if you are now more concerned about your contacts and if you were now thinking about turning off the Syncing and Delete Contact list on Instagram.
Facebook has been hugely criticised by industry experts for sharing personal data and data breaches. Today, we will be sharing how you can disable contact sync on Instagram. So here are the step-by-step instructions mentioned below.
Here are the steps: Delete your Instagram contacts list and turn off the Contacts Sync.
After disabling the Sync contact, it still keeps the previous contact details that you have shared, but to delete them, you have to take a few more steps. So without further ado, let’s check this out.
Steps to Turn Off Contact Sync on Instagram
Follow the guide mentioned below.
- Open Instagram and then click on the Profile icon placed in the bottom-right corner of the app.
- Then, click on the hamburger menu located in the upper-right corner of the app.
- Next, click on Settings and then the Account option.
- Find Contacts Syncing, and there toggle “Connect Connection.”
- Confirm your action in the pop-up dialogue box.
- That’s it.
How to delete contacts on Instagram
As for deleting your contact details, you have to either switch Instagram to desktop mode or use your computer to perform this action.
- Open Instagram and then click on the Profile icon in the upper-right corner of the screen.
- Select Settings from the drop-down menu.
- On the Manage Contacts page, you can see the total number of synced contacts at the bottom right.
- Next to your Synced contacts, click on Delete All.
- You’re done.
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Hopefully, this guide helps you to stop contact syncing and delete contacts from Instagram. This has always been quite easy on Instagram. For further queries, share them with us in the comment section below.