Meta now lets you delete your Threads profile without also deleting your Instagram account – here’s how easy it is to do it.
Meta’s Threads was a huge success out of the gate a few months ago when Mark Zuckerberg’s social media conglomerate used Instagram’s huge reach to turn its first Twitter/X rival into a viral sensation. It didn’t help X that Elon Musk was making a mess of things, and Meta took action right at one of X’s low points.
In typical Meta fashion, Instagram made activating Threads accounts very easy. This helped boost the initial numbers well beyond what a brand-new app would typically have been able to do. Annoyingly, Meta also made it impossible to leave Threads once you activated an account. Deleting a Threads account would also mean deleting your entire Instagram account, an option no longtime Instagram user would seriously consider.
Meta offered users a way to deactivate their Threads profiles without really deleting them.
