Keep Your Instagram Account Secure
Important precautions you should take to increase your account security
Ensuring the security of your Instagram account is critical to protecting your personal information and content. You can protect your account against hackers by following the security measures below.
- Use a strong and unique password. Create a password that is at least 12 characters long and contains uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters.
- Be sure to enable two-factor authentication. This requires a security code in addition to your password to log into your account.
- Keep your email and phone information up to date and make sure you have access.
- Do not click on suspicious links. Verify emails and messages that appear to be from Instagram.
- Check Instagram login activities and connected apps regularly.
- Be careful when logging into Instagram on public Wi-Fi networks, use a VPN if possible.
- Do not give unknown applications access to your Instagram account.
- Do not share your account information with anyone, Instagram will never ask for your password.
Create and store different, strong passwords on each platform using a password manager. This way, a security breach on one platform won't affect your other accounts.