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» You can stop Instagram from suggesting your account by removing your phone number and disconnecting Facebook, ensuring that your profile won’t be recommended to people with your phone number or Facebook friends.
» You can try switching to a professional account or making your account private to further control suggestions, allowing you to manage who can view and interact with your profile.
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How To Stop Your Account From Being Suggested On Instagram:
You have the following methods to try :
1. Make Account Private
By setting your account to private, the people you allow will only be able to see your posts and follow you.
This can limit the number of suggestions Instagram makes to other users.
2. Use a Different Email address
Instagram may suggest your account to people who have your email in their contacts.
If you don’t want this to happen, you can use a different email address to sign up for Instagram.
If you use popular hashtags, your posts are more likely to be seen by other users, including those who are not following you.
Avoid using popular hashtags to reduce the chance of your account being suggested to others.
4. Remove unwanted followers
If you don’t want people following you, you can remove them from your followers list.
This can help reduce the chance of your account being suggested to others.
5. Limit your activity on Instagram
If you frequently like, comment, or follow other users, Instagram may suggest your account to them. Limiting your activity will also help reduce the chance of being suggested to other users.
How To Stop Instagram From Suggesting My Account:
There are a few methods that you can try to stop the suggestions on Instagram.
Let’s see the detailed steps below:
1. Disable Or Remove Phone Number
If you remove your Phone number from your Instagram account, then the people who have saved your number on their device won’t find you even if they activate “Connect Contacts”.
Step 1: Open your Instagram Account.
Step 2: Go to the Profile page, by clicking on the “profile icon”, in the right bottom corner.
Step 3: Now, tap on the “Edit Profile” option.
Step 4: Next, hit the “Personal information settings”, at last.
Step 5: Your phone number will be the second one down, remove it, and you are done.
Remember, once you remove your phone number from your account you won’t be able to have two-factor authentication by text SMS. Now you need to add your email to your Instagram account & verify it.
2. Unlink Instagram from Facebook
If you unlink your Instagram from your Facebook, your profile will not appear on those people who are added as your friends on Facebook, not even when they have linked their Instagram with Facebook.
Steps to de-link Instagram from Facebook:
Step 1: Open your Instagram account.
Step 2: Tap on the Profile Icon at the bottom right side.
Step 3: Then hit the “Hamburger” menu [Three Horizontal lines] located in the upper-right corner of your profile page.
Step 4: Select the “Settings” option.
Step 5: On the Settings list, come down to the last option: “Accounts Center”, and open it.
Step 6: Next, tap on the “Accounts & Profiles”, then “Facebook”.
Step 7: At last, tap on the “Remove from Accounts Center” option.
There you go, no more Facebook friends on Instagram suggestions.
