Insta­gram Settings

Insta­gram offers a mul­ti­tude of con­fig­u­ra­tion options. It is not always easy to keep track of all the var­ious set­tings offered and to select the best set­tings for your pur­poses. Our check­list is meant to assist you to pro­tect your account and all your pub­lished infor­ma­tion in the best pos­sible way.

We have tried to draw up as uni­ver­sally applic­able a set of instruc­tions for pri­vate users as pos­sible. Nev­er­the­less, the indi­vidual con­fig­u­ra­tion options and set­tings may differ in spe­cific cases. This check­list refers to the Insta­gram set­tings avail­able as of 27th July 2021 as dis­played in a desktop com­puter browser.

As a rule, the set­tings described here are auto­mat­i­cally adopted in the Insta­gram app. Depending on your smart­phone and oper­ating system though, there may be some addi­tional set­tings in the app which are not dis­cussed here.

To dis­play your account set­tings in Insta­gram, click the pro­file symbol at the top of the page and select “set­tings” from the menu.

Edit pro­file

Change pass­word

Manage your pass­words out­side of Insta­gram, for instance using a pass­word manager.

Apps and Websites

Reg­u­larly close ses­sions you no longer need.

E-Mail and SMS

Push noti­fi­ca­tions

Manage con­tacts

Don’t use, “Remove All” if necessary.

Pri­vacy and security

Login activity

Reg­u­larly check your log-ins.

Emails from Instagram

If you sus­pect phishing, you can check here whether an e-mail has actu­ally come from Insta­gram or not.