If you want to know how to remove your phone number from Instagram then you have come to the right place, because it may be that at some point you will we have placed to activate the verification in two steps, or so that they simply contact us about an incident in the account, but it could be that you no longer use it or simply want a little more privacy .
Not all users like to enter their phone number, although it makes the account more secure by activating Instagram's two-step verification, since it means providing a rather sensitive personal data, whichwe don't know if the company is going to keep custody adequately.
To register on Instagram it is necessary to provide an email or email, but it is not mandatory to give the phone number to use the network Social. Therefore, if we have added it at any time, it will be possible to delete that data without major consequences .
Let's see the step by step to do it:
- We open Instagram and click on our profile photo in the lower right corner:
- We access “Edit profile” .
- We scroll to “Profile Information” .
- Next, we are shown the email and the phone number that we have entered .
- To delete the number we must click on it , and then touch the "X"displayed on the right:
- Then click on the arrow shown at the top right of the app:
It should be noted that, like our email, the phone number will never be visible on the Instagram profile, given that it is confidential information, unless we express our consent to show it in a company account or similar .
Remove Instagram phone number from webpage
Just as you can delete the phone number from the Instagram mobile application, there is an equally simple method to do it through the websiteof the social network and you can then achieve it successfully if you do not have your mobile at hand to do it:
- The first thing you should do is go to the Instagram website and enter your account credentials to log in .
- Now go to the profile photo in the avatar that is on the upper right hand side of the screen and you will arrive at your profile .
- Here find in the upper center the " Edit profile" button press on it
- If you scroll through that first screen to the end, you will see the phone number field in the penultimate position, proceed to delete it manually .
- Finally you just have to press on the blue button with the word send to confirm that you want to delete your phone number from the social network .
You should bear in mind that this telephone number is not provided to other users as a method of contact, unless you have provided it yourself decided in case of converting your account on the platform into a professional account and you have authorized the use of that number for it .
When you delete the phone number from Instagram, we also We recommend you verify if at any time you created a link so that they can contact you through WhatsAppand you placed it in the Biography, because this link also allows your phone number to be available through the social network and be in the public domain .
As we can see, removing our Instagram number is a very simple process and, if we don't know if we have entered it on some occasion, it's as easy to check as following the process above .
