Instagram finally provides more insight into the services with which the app exchanges data. In this tip, we explain how you can see exactly which apps can use your data, and how to delete this.
Adjust Instagram privacy settings
We’ve had to wait a long time, but Instagram is finally giving you the tools to better protect your data. An update to the app adds new settings, showing you exactly which third-party apps have access to your Instagram account. These are, for example, websites and apps where you are logged in with your Instagram account.
For example, there are many photo apps for iOS that request access to your account so that they can import photos or link to your account. That makes it easier for you to post a photo directly from the app.
However, it often happens that you use these apps for a while and then they end up in a forgotten folder on your homescreen. At that time, it may be useful to withdraw this permission from your Instagram, in order to better protect your privacy. This is now easy to arrange via the steps below.
This way you can see which apps have access to your Instagram data
- Open Instagram;
- Go to your profile page;
- Tap the three lines in the top right corner;
- Choose ‘Settings’;
- Tap on ‘Security’;
- Go to ‘Apps and websites’.
In the following overview you can see which websites and apps have access to your Instagram account. You can press ‘Remove’ behind each name to revoke this permission.
In addition to this setting, the way in which you give apps permission to use this data has also changed in the future. As soon as an app asks for this permission, a new window appears that shows more clearly what data the app or service has access to.
The two Instagram privacy features are rolling out gradually. It could therefore be that the option is not yet available with you, but it will soon be the case.
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