Threads Users Can Now Delete Their Profiles Without Deleting Their Instagram Account

Within months of its inception, Elon Musk’s microblogging rival, Threads, has eclipsed Meta as a popular social media platform.

Instagram’s text-based app is still in its early stages and lacks a few important functions. Users have been complaining about Threads since it launched in July since they can’t remove their profile without also removing their Instagram account. The chief executive officer of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, has now revealed two new features for the platform, one of which includes the option to remove a Threads profile independently from Instagram.

https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/Czmfy17SDfl

Mosseri announced that the platform was releasing two new changes in response to customer feedback in a Threads post. The first feature that users have been requesting is the option to remove a Threads profile without also removing the associated Instagram account. Up until now, there was no practical method to remove your presence on Threads without also removing your Instagram account because Threads profiles are connected to their individual Instagram accounts. However, users have the option to momentarily disable their Threads profile.

The latest version allows you to remove your Threads profile without affecting your Meta photo-sharing account. Go to Settings > Account > Delete or Deactivate Profile to accomplish this. To totally erase your Threads account, choose delete here.

A second update to Threads is also being released, giving users additional control over who may see their postings on all of Meta’s social media channels. Posts from the app currently appear on Facebook and Instagram feeds as well. Recently, this function was added to encourage more interaction on Meta’s newest platform from users of its more established ones.

The latest update includes a mechanism for users to choose not to be shown on platforms other than Threads in response to user complaints regarding privacy issues (users were not in control of where or to whom their postings from Threads would be shown). The Privacy section of the Settings menu is where you may find this.

Threads has drawn criticism for lacking functionality typically found on text-based social media sites ever since its grandiose July launch. Before it released a Web version lately to catch up to X (previously Twitter) in August, the software was not available on the Web.

The program has also drawn criticism for gathering large amounts of user data, much like other Meta apps. Following its unprecedented July 6 launch—which saw it become the app with the quickest 100 million downloads—Threads struggled to hold onto customers in the ensuing weeks, losing more than half of its user base. CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg informed staff members that increasing user retention was the company’s main goal. “Obviously, it would be fantastic if all or even half of the more than 100 million people who join up stayed around. We haven’t arrived yet,” he had stated.

In addition, Threads launched an edit button and Voice Threads last month. With the former, users can modify a Thread as many times as they’d like within five minutes of publishing, while the latter lets them send a voice message as a Threads post.