How to Delete Instagram Account on Android

Like iPhone, Android also routes final account deletion through a mobile browser rather than the Instagram app itself. The steps below work the same way across stock Android, Samsung’s One UI, and most other manufacturer skins.

Step-by-step: deleting on Android

1. Open the Instagram app and tap your profile picture in the bottom right.
2. Tap the menu (☰) icon, then Settings and privacy.
3. Tap Accounts Center → Personal details → Account ownership and control.
4. Tap Deactivation or deletion, select your account, then Delete account.
5. If Chrome opens instead of finishing in-app, log in again if prompted, choose a reason, enter your password, and confirm.

The delete page keeps loading or times out

This is the most common Android-specific snag, and it’s almost always one of these:

• Clear Chrome’s site data for instagram.com: Chrome menu → Settings → Site settings → All sites → instagram.com → Clear & reset.
• Try an incognito tab in Chrome, which skips cached login data entirely.
• Switch default browser temporarily if a third-party browser is set as default and blocking scripts Instagram’s page needs.
• Check your connection — the deletion page fails silently on very slow or unstable mobile data more often than the desktop version does.

Samsung and other manufacturer skins

Samsung Internet, MIUI’s browser, and similar preinstalled browsers can behave inconsistently with Instagram’s deletion flow. If the steps above stall specifically in one of these, switching to Chrome or Firefox for this one task resolves it in almost every case.

Quick answers

Do I need to uninstall the app first? No — the app and the account are independent; removing one has no effect on the other.

Is there a way to delete without any browser at all? Not currently — Instagram requires the browser-based confirmation step on Android just as it does on iOS.

For what happens to your data after deletion, and the 30-day grace period, see our complete deletion guide.