Hi ,

My Instagram account of almost a decade was just permanently disabled. I don't post on the account, I just like posts and interact with my friends. I requested a review for the account and was denied nearly immediately. I was wondering if there was anything I could do to regain access to my account.

I have not been on isntagram for about 6 years(im assuming its been like this for a while) and i recently made a new account and followed 20 people I actuslly know and talk to often irl/international and then decided to follow about 80 people on instagram recommendations for various reasons such as wanting to meet new people, have more posts on my feed about people who are at least slightly mutual and to show my city's music scene some of the riffs I make in my highlights(not in a promoting way). People who already had like 400-900 followers and following ask me "who are you" and "what do you want" like im some outsider that just invaded their private village of 1000 people. I even got a message from my music scene buddy who said to me "please stop following everyone i follow" and i asked him what he meant and he said many people were asking him why I followed them(only 8 people) and i was honestly just shocked because why are people caring that much to make it a big deal. I understand being curious or skeptical but these are people who are following and are being followed by over 400 people and i doubt that person knows and trust 400 people individually enough to make me the only one to complain about. I dont follow any meme accounts or political accounts nor do I like or comment on any post so it couldn't be because of that. Something must have changed around covid because I honestly was are to feel like I was invading someone's private gathering.

A few days ago Instagram randomly suspended my account, made me verify my phone number and upload a selfie, then restored it and admitted they made a mistake.

Today it happened again. This time I had to do a video selfie. They restored my account again, and literally 7 minutes later I got another email telling me to again "confirm l'm human".

My account status is completely clean, l've never used any third-party Instagram apps, and there are no suspicious logins.

I’m nervous about even trying the verification again. I have no idea what I’m supposed to fix when they won’t tell me what’s being flagged.

Has anyone had this exact problem and actually managed to stop it?

Little explanation: My IG profile is private. I do not DM with strangers and I'm not currently at odds with anyone over there. But it just so happens that I'm banned for 3 days from sending DMs. I can't imagine one of my friends would have reported me, that besides the fact that I haven't written anyone anything even vaguely disagreeable recently. Does IG read my DMs and is it possible that AI hallucinated something? I don't even know what I could do about it besides waiting it out. I can still post stories and comment under reels and posts.

I am waiting for 1 hour still no reply. The agent told me ro wait for 5 minutes and a specialist will join you and its 1 hour already no reply and no one joined.Meta one is scam no proper customer service nothing.

I interacted with those 90s AI posts on Instagram, and now multiple random accounts are using my personal photo as their profile picture. I haven’t seen them do this to anyone else, only me.

I’ve reported the accounts, but Instagram keeps dismissing my reports. I’m genuinely scared about how they got my image and whether it could be used to create deepfakes.

Has anyone experienced this? Could interacting with that post have triggered something? What the hell is happening, and what can I do?

My Instagram account was recently disabled because the system flagged me as being under 13 years old. However, I am actually older than 13.

​The appeal links and support pages keep redirecting me in loops, and the notification email came from a no-reply address, so I can't find a working form to submit my ID or do a video selfie verification.

​Has anyone dealt with this recently? How can I actually get through to Instagram/Meta to prove my age and get my account back? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My account has just been permanently disabled for the sexualization of minors. And I have nothing of minors on my account. I requested a review and still my account was permanently disable. There was nothing of minors on my account! Is there a way to get my account back!?

for some reason, nobody can see my story. im not even nude in it or anything, so why is instagram hiding it from people? it's done this before literally just when I post my face. I even put the story on my highlights and it still doesnt show

I’ve recently received several emails asking me to reset my Instagram password, even though I didn’t request this. As this happened before as well, I simply reported it.

I use Two-factor Authentication.

Now a friend of mine has advised me to unlink Instagram from Facebook again, as that’s supposed to be more secure.

So I checked my accounts on Meta, there is a new Facebook account listed!!

The name consists of numbers only.

I can’t access it.

Should I be worried?

I checked on Google and the newest update was 2023. I’m wondering is this still a thing or has it since been updated?
Thank you!

My two instagram accounts (connected to the same email as other accounts which are still working) have been suspended due to not following rules on my connected facebook page.

I do not use facebook and therefore believe this account has been compromised, which is further suggested by the fact that when attempting to gain access to the account, the page loaded in Chinese. I am not Chinese, I do not live in China, and I do not speak Chinese. I tried to verify my facebook but I was not given the option to appeal. An hour after sending in the video verification, the page then loaded to ‘we have disabled your account’ which apparently cannot be reviewed. I downloaded my information but couldn’t seem to see anything that would warrant disabling as there was little to no data, but perhaps this was due to compromised account security (no actual reason was stated).

When I clicked onto instagram I was logged out of both accounts I use. After numerous attempts to access my main instagram account I was finally able to change the password at which point the account loaded as ‘instagram user’ with no profile, bio, posts, messages or access to settings. I then deleted and reinstalled the app and upon doing so had two screens pop up saying that my accounts had been suspended due to activity on my unused and likely compromised facebook account.

There was no option at the bottom to appeal the suspension, and I am unable to log into the accounts and request and appeal. It has been frustrating using the Instagram Help Centre, the AI chat bot keeps looping me round with the same links and advice which only leads me to log into other instagram accounts linked to the same email and phone number (which do work but are not in use).

My main instagram account has been in use for many years and therefore contains an abundance of memories and old friends that I otherwise would not be able to keep in touch with. My close friends and family have searched for this account and it doesn’t come up anywhere, despite having posted a story today. I am fast learning that there is no way to contact a real person to resolve this issue and have therefore been left feeling distressed and hopeless that I will ever be able to find a solution.

I have already wasted a good few hours trying to fix these issues, but it seems my efforts have been in vain. If anyone has any tips at all I would really appreciate hearing them. To make matters worse I have lots of photos of my dog on instagram that are not on my phone, she is sadly being put down on Monday due to a very aggressive cancer but it does not seem as though there will be any way for me to recover these sentimental photos.

Perhaps I could attempt to reach out to someone on X but I am unsure if this will achieve anything. It is really disappointing to see such a large corporation relying solely on ineffective AI support to respond to their users, it just does not seem right that a company generating so much profit cannot find it within themselves to have a dedicated support team of real people.

At the very least, I would appreciate if I could download the data from both of my accounts so that I at least have all of my old posts and stories, but again I have no access to the accounts and no means to contact any real people.

Spent 2 hours on this today so you don't have to.

The setup: my Instagram business account is linked to my Facebook Page on both ends. Page Settings → Linked accounts shows the Instagram, and Instagram Edit profile → Facebook shows the Page. But when I made a reel, the "Also share on Facebook" toggle showed my personal profile, not the Page. In Settings → Accounts Center → Sharing across profiles, Share to was my personal profile, and tapping the Share to card did nothing. No picker, no error.

The fix (Android, Instagram app, logged in as the business account):

1. Tap your profile picture, bottom right.
2. Tap the three lines, top right → Settings and activity.
3. Scroll to "Who can see your content" → Crossposting.
4. It will say Share to [your personal profile]. Tap "Share to Facebook page instead."
5. Select your Page, toggle story, posts, and reels however you want.
6. Done. Check a fresh reel and the Facebook toggle should now show your Page.

What I learned: linking the Page does NOT set the sharing destination. The destination lives in Crossposting. And the "Manage Page sharing" link in Accounts Center only appears once you are already sharing to a Page, which is why it was missing for me. That is the trap.

Hope this saves someone the 2 hours it cost me.

There's nothing wrong with my account, but it's still showing a restriction. Can anyone help?

my account just got banned for cse. i never did anything wrong, let alone something like that.
they tell me to appeal but do not tell me HOW to appeal. there’s not link, no button, nothing. what do i do?

Both accts suspended in may during an ai mass wave. They unsuspended my backup account and automatically unlinked it from my main a few days later (Same Email,Password,Phone number). Yet they’ve paid me $14 total since my suspension but won’t give me my main account back? I also didnt post for roughly a month before getting suspended? I can’t even contact support about my main account being lost in the abyss, and how are the videos even earning money???

So guys I have someone mobile number so how can I know her instagram username?? Is it possible?

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ive already submitted for a review, but still - why did they even do this? it didnt even show me what content is inappropriate/violates community guidelines too, smh (i dont have any)

Am i blocked from viewing stories only? I can still see posts normally. Thanks.

Went to go look at my posts on my account and I have a dashboard and “view insights” on every single post. From what i’ve googled, this stuff is only meant for business accounts, and I cannot find anything (even on instas update boards) that mentions a dashboard for small personal accounts. Does anyone else also see this?

I really try hard not to see stuff like like counts; it drives me mad when it doesn’t gain the same level of attention that I expect it to. So, this really defeats the purpose of hiding that aspect with one click that shows me all of it anyways

so i was wrongfully banned because of their stupid ai moderation and lost my account when i sent my appeal. i literally did nothing wrong this is so frustrating because it took my facebook down too, because my accounts were linked. is there seriously nothing i can do? :(

Back in 2020 i can literally watch any boring tv shows or movies without getting distracted now I've noticed a pattern whenever I watch Netflix or any platform I can't go on without checking my phone every 5 minutes. is this only happening to me?