Make Instagram Safer
Many of you won't know it but at this moment you are sharing information from your Instagram account with some third-party apps and websites to which, at some point, you have given permission to it.
Surely you have ever downloaded an app to generate some kind of compilation of your photos uploaded to this social network, or to access statistics, to increase followers, to schedule publications, right?
So you know that if you gave them permission to access your profile, they still have access to your data even if you've stopped using them.
Make Instagram safer. Remove apps that have access to your Instagram account information:
We are going to teach you how to delete them from our account. It is something that many will not care about, but for security and privacy, we recommend you do it.
By accessing our Instagram profile and clicking on the icon to the right of the bottom menu of the screen, we will have access to our settings. To do this, click on the following button.
Access your Instagram account settings
Of the options that appear we must go to the following path: Settings/Security/Applications and websites/Active .
Now we will see a list of third-party apps and websites that have access to the information of our profile to which we have given permission.
Delete apps and websites that you don't want to have access to your information
If you want to know the type of information to which these platforms have access, in our Instagram account, click on "Privacy Policy" of each of the apps or websites , to find out.
Now it is up to you to delete them and prevent them from accessing it, by clicking on the “Remove” button .
In our case we are going to eliminate “Best 9”, an app that we downloaded to compile our 9 best photos of the year, and we will also eliminate “Hootsuite”, an app that allows us to schedule publications but does not We've been using it for months.
We will leave IFTTT activated since it allows us to automatically publish each of the photos and videos that we upload to Instagram, on our profile of Facebook.
It is essential to have the “he alth” of our social networks in good condition and review, from time to time, this type of configuration.
We hope you found this tutorial interesting and share it with all your friends and family. In this way, you will surely help them clean up their accounts and make them much more secure.
Greetings.
