How to disconnect Instagram from Facebook

A while back, a friend helped you link your Facebook account to Instagram to automatically share stories and posts between the two social networks. Now, however, you have changed your mind and would like to proceed in reverse: you are therefore wondering how to disconnect Instagram from Facebook but cannot find the right option to do it.

How do you say? Is this exactly the case and would you like a hand to reach your goal? No problem, consider it already done! In the course of the next chapters, in fact, I will provide you with specific indications to “separate” the aforementioned profiles and no longer automatically share the contents of Instagram on Facebook.

Are you afraid that a sea of ​​complex steps await you? Not at all! I can assure you that it will take a moment, regardless of whether you want to act from the Instagram application for smartphones and tablets or from a computer. Just follow my instructions and in no time at all, the game will be done! Happy reading and good luck for everything!

Index

• How to disconnect Instagram from Facebook
  • How to disconnect Instagram from Facebook: Android and iOS
  • How to disconnect Instagram from Facebook: computer
• How to deactivate Instagram from Facebook
• How to share Instagram photos and videos after disconnecting Facebook

How to disconnect Instagram from Facebook

As I mentioned earlier, you can disconnect your Facebook and Instagram accounts both from mobile, using the official app of the social network (available for Android , also on alternative stores , and iOS ) and from computer, via the Web version of Instagram or its application for Windows 10 (and later).

How to disconnect Instagram from Facebook: Android and iOS

Are you wondering how to unlink Instagram accounts from Facebook ? I will immediately show it to you. Simply go to the Account Management Center of the mobile app, which is used to manage all the functions related to the connection of Facebook and Instagram accounts: sharing stories and posts from one social network to another, personal information shared, related suggestions friends to follow, use of Facebook Pay and login with accounts ( more info here ).

To remove the link between the two accounts, start the Instagram app and log in to your account (if necessary). Next, tap on your profile photo at the bottom right and then press the ☰ icon located at the top right.

From here, select the Settings item and continue by tapping on the Account Management Center item located at the bottom. At this point, press on the item located at the top that shows the names of your Facebook and Instagram accounts and, on the page that opens, tap on the preview of your Facebook profile . Finally, select the item Remove from the Account Management Center , then the Continue one and, lastly, click on the item Remove [username] . Perfect! You just did everything there was to do. It wasn’t difficult, was it?

In this way, all the functions I mentioned above (sharing stories and posts from one social network to another, shared personal information and so on) will be automatically disabled.

How do you say? Would you like to “retrace your steps” and, therefore, connect your Facebook account to your Instagram account again? Nothing easier: returns the item Account Management Center of the settings of Instagram and you tap on the item Configure Management Center account .

At this point you will be offered the Facebook account that you connected previously (if you want to replace it with another one, just click on Change and enter the login credentials of the Facebook account you want to connect); to proceed, simply press the Continue and Yes buttons , complete the configuration and choose whether to synchronize the Facebook profile photo with the Instagram one or not.

How to disconnect Instagram from Facebook: computer

Would you like to know how to disconnect Instagram from Facebook by acting as a computer ? I’ll settle you immediately: the indications are valid both for the Web version of Instagram , and for the Instagram application for Windows 10 and later. So, after logging into your account , proceed by clicking on your profile photo at the top right and, in the menu that opens, select the Settings item .

Once this is done, click on the Account Management Center item located at the bottom left (if you are acting as a browser, you can connect directly to this page ) and press on the box with the names of your Facebook and Instagram accounts .

Subsequently, click on the preview of your Facebook account and, in the page that opens, first click on the item Remove from the Account Management Center and then on the item Continue . Finally, click on the Remove [username] button and the procedure will be completed. Nothing complex, do you agree?

If, at a later time, you want the accounts to be linked again, press again on your profile photo in the top right and then go to Settings> Account management center> Accounts and profiles> Add account . Therefore, log in to Facebook by entering your login credentials (if you don’t remember them, see my guide on how to recover Facebook account ) and press the Continue button as [username] . Then click on the Continue button and, finally, click on the Yes button , complete the configuration .

How to deactivate Instagram from Facebook

So far I have shown you how to act from Instagram but, as I told you at the beginning, you also have the possibility to disconnect your accounts from the Facebook app for Android (also available on alternative stores ) and iOS / iPadOS . Before explaining the various steps to take, I inform you, however, that the latter cannot be performed from a PC, neither from the web version of Facebook nor from the Facebook application for Windows 10 and later.

That said, start by opening the Facebook app you find on your smartphone or tablet and log in . Then, press the ☰ icon located at the top right and, from here, scroll down the page and tap on the Settings and privacy item . Continue, then, by pressing on the Settings item and select the Account Management Center option at the bottom of the page.

Now choose the item placed at the top with the names of your Facebook and Instagram accounts and then click on the name of your Instagram account . At this point, tap the Remove item from the Account Management Center , then press the Continue and Remove [username] buttons : in this way, your Instagram account will be disconnected from the Facebook one. It didn’t take long, did it?

At any time, in case of second thoughts, you can “merge” the accounts again by going to ≡> Settings and privacy> Settings> Account management center> Configure the account management center and from this last screen by pressing the Continue button (or the Change button , located next to the preview of your Instagram account , if you want to connect an Instagram profile different from the one proposed to you). Finally, click on Yes, complete the configuration and you will have done everything there was to do.

How to share Instagram photos and videos after disconnecting Facebook

After separating your Instagram and Facebook profiles, you can still “manually” share Instagram posts on the other social network. I’ll show you below the steps from ‘ app for Instagram for mobile devices (at the time of writing you a content-sharing is not possible either from the website or from the social network Instagram computer).

To share your story on Facebook, once you have started the Instagram app , tap on your profile photo at the top right (the item Your story ) and from the story view screen, tap on the Share item on … at the bottom, then select the Facebook logo from the menu that is proposed to you.

At this point, you will be redirected to the post creation page on Facebook and you can write a caption by typing some text at the top, choose the sharing option that suits you best, pressing the Share item in the News section , tag people , add a status of mind or indicate your geographical position by pressing the appropriate buttons at the bottom.

Once you are ready to publish the post, press the Publish button at the top right and that’s it. You will be able to publish the content on your Facebook diary, on another person’s, in a group or on a Facebook page you manage, depending on how you prefer.

If, on the other hand, you want to share a post from the Instagram feed on Facebook , open the app of the famous photo social network, tap on your profile photo at the bottom right and, from here, select the preview of the post you want share . Then, press the sull’icona icon located at the top right of the post itself and, from the menu that opens, select the item Share on… .

Now select the Facebook logo from the sharing menu: from here on, the steps for publishing the post are the same as I listed in the previous paragraph.

Alternatively, you can also share stories and posts from Instagram by selecting the Copy link option from the menu that you can call up by pressing the ⁝ icon located both in the stories and in the posts themselves. Once you have copied the link from Instagram , to proceed with the publication, you just need to start the Facebook app and create a new post by pasting the copied link in the field of the item What are you thinking? placed at the top. For more details on this process take a look at my tutorial on how to create a post on Facebook .