How to Download your Instagram photos and Delete your Account

With the change in Instagram's policy, it has been made clear that from January 16th, the photos you upload to Instagram can be used for third party advertising. That means, the photos that you take of your family, pets and kids can be sold without even notifying you. So its better you back up and download all your pictures from Instagram and delete your account today. 

Do not wait till 16th January,2013 to do it, they might still use them or sell them. With this policy change, it's not just you alone who is worried, all Instagram user are wondering what to do? Today we have brought you a solution, Download all the pictures and delete your account, or you can simply sit back and provide Facebook with free advertising material.

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When you delete your Instagram account, all your photos, friendships, comments and everything else you've done is deleted. So either you can simply delete your account and everything will be deleted, or you can download all the pictures before pulling the trigger.

Instaport, is an online app, that lets you download all your Instagram pictures or move them to other Social networks. Simply Log into your account, give permission to Instaport to access your files, then start the download.

Download the Zip file of all your pictures that you posted on Instagram. Once you have downloaded all the pictures, you can simply log into Instagram web app, select a reason for deleting your account, then click the button "I understand, deactivate my account".

It's done ! Though you have lost all your comments, friends etc but still you have all your pictures saved and you are safe from being used as poster boy for any advertising deal. Do share this article with your friends to help them out with the same.