Recently I’ve been visiting this cool site called Quora.com. On this site users can ask any questions which then can be answered by other users. Naturally one of the topic that I immediately went to was on Instagram. After monitoring this topic for a few days I was quite taken aback on how many Instagram Users who said that they couldn’t login to their account for one or other reason. The reasons were ranging from as simple as forgotten password to the more sinister one like the account being hacked.
But one reason that was really amazed me was that the revelation that many Instagram Users were registering their account using a ‘FAKE Email’!
I admit after thinking about this a little more, I realised that this might seem to be a good idea at first, especially if I think about privacy issue. But unfortunately this will come back and bite the user very hard.
See, without a real AND working email address there is no way on earth that you can recover your account when disaster come knocking on the door.
So here is my first and one of the most important Instagram tips of 2015 …
Check your Instagram email address, make sure that it’s a real one and that it’s working and that you can access and read it!
How do you check your Instagram email and change it? Here is how:
You can check and change your email in two ways, via the Instagram app and via the Web.
From the Instagram App:
1. Go to your Instagram Profile and tap on the ‘Edit Your Profile‘ button.
2. Your registered email address should be shown under the Private Information section. Make sure that this is a real email address, otherwise tap on the field and change it.
3. You will then get confirmation to your new email address. Make sure that you open this email and read the instructions on it to verify your email.
From the Web:
1. Go to Instagram.com and login to your Instagram account.
2. Click on your Profile Picture at the top right corner to access the profile menu. Click on the Edit Profile menu item.
3. This will take you to the Edit Profile page. Here you can see your email address and your other details. Again make sure that your email is real. Change it if necessary. And don’t forget to Submit the change.
By the way, if you notice, there are many other things you can do in this page, some of which you can’t get from the mobile app. For example you can manage access from third party applications and change your password.
4. You will need to go through the same verification process as with the Instagram app. Make sure that you follow it through.
Important Note: If for some reason you’ve already had difficulties in logging into your account, please check this official Instagram Help page. It will detail on steps you could take to get your account back.
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I lost my email
If you lost your email unfortunately there is nothing you can do. You need your email to reset your password. But in anyway, have you gone through every step described in that help page?
My intagram can’t login, my instagram is faziraishk, can you help me, i also can’t log in by email or facebook
Did you try the ‘forgot password’ link?
If you think your account has been hacked, follow the instructions in this post to try to get it back: http://moblivious.com/instagram/help-my-instagram-got-hacked/
facebook
Excuse me?
Please I want to unprivate my instagram account and but I forget the email I use it
Sorry but you need that email.
Cannot get into my Instagram. All Instagram reset passwords will not go through to my email address can you help me out please?
In this post http://moblivious.com/instagram/avoid-getting-banned-or-blocked-by-instagram/ you will find a link to an Instagram form where you can report this. Try it and let me know if you’ve got anything back from them.
I’m logged out because they have re-set my password on Instagram BUT I want to change my email to get my new password but can’t because I can’t log in?
You can’t get in to change your email without your password. And you can’t reset your password without your email. So you need to access your old email.
Change email, beacause im for get password
Sorry, is this a question?
My ig account get hacked. Then the asshole change my password and and my email address too. How can i recover back my ig. Thanks.
Have a read on this article I wrote: http://moblivious.com/instagram/help-my-instagram-got-hacked/
I would like to share my pictures with my friends around the world
Great!
This really worls
Please help me i want to change my email because i forgot my password
You cannot change your email if you are not logged in. So first, if you forgot your password, you need to use the Forgot Password link to reset it.
Hi Chris
Salam dari Indonesia.
Do you think some people use ‘fake’ email or id to follow / spy their competitors
Hi Maria! Salam kenal!
I don’t think people needs fake email or id to spy others. If you just want to stalk someone, it’s enough just to go to their profile every now and then and check what they are doing, you don’t even need to follow the person.
I am unable to sign up using my email id or through facebook login .When trying email it says the email is already taken. When login through facebook it shows some other username & ask for login or if its not me thn sign up. If i click login in i donot know password or username as that is not my account. Plus when I try to forget password using my email id it says user not valid & inactive
The messages are very clear: It means that you have created an Instagram account either directly using that particular email address, or via Facebook (that is linked to the same email address).
If you are NOT aware that you had done the above, then either someone else had done it for you without your consent.
First I would check your email account, and change your password for that email, just in case you had been hacked.
Then for your Instagram account, just use an alternative email address. Make sure that the email is real.
Hi, My problem is little different: Whenever i try login, it says my account has been disabled. I don’t know why. Their help center link is just information which doesn’t help at all. I tried contacting them several times but nothing has been done. Is there any way i can get my account back since i am able to login to the insta web but not the mobile app.
Didn’t you get the ‘Tell Us’ button?
No i cant see this button anywhere.
Hi Chris,
I registered for a new Instagram account with my email and never used it. Now, I went back to use it trusting that I could reactivate it even if I do not remember the password (which I dont). The shocker was when I saw o******@e******.com. I have no clue what @e******.com means. I am shocked. I am like – did I have a typo when I was registering this account or..? It does not make sense. I have contacted Instagram but they cannot help me. What do I do?
If you really don’t remember having that email address, then there is a strong possibility that your account had been hacked.Have a read on my other post here: http://moblivious.com/instagram/help-my-instagram-got-hacked/ – there is a form where you can report this to Instagram.
Hi there – did this ever get resolved? I just had the same issue happen where my account got hacked and email changed and then Instagram responded by saying I can find the reset password at an email address ending in “@e******.com” Would LOVE any feedback here as I work in the industry and need my account re-activated.
Did you report it to Instagram?
Report to Instagram that your account is hacked.
Got exactly the same problem. It should be a bug or something. In my case it was an account I used for stalking haha so maybe instagram noticed it.
please i will be very happy if you can help me with my email address i erroneously set my email address as feronmmy4real@yahoo.co.ul instead of feronmmy4real@yahoo.co.uk
You can change your email as I’ve written here in the article.
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Is it not possible to change the email to an email that had an account previously? It doesn’t work for me.
No. One email can have only one account.
How can I get my instagram back ?someone hack it and change the email 🙁
Please read this post: http://moblivious.com/instagram/help-my-instagram-got-hacked/
I gave my insta password to my boyfriend, he then changed my account Email?!!!! And he says he forgot his email password ,he also forgot the insta password, what could i do?! How do i get my instagram page back? i do want my page very much,all my followers are waiting for me to come back…
Well you could take that baseball bat and hit your silly boyfriend on his head 100s times, it might make you feel better (and maybe it would return his memory). It would also seem to me that he’s up to no good, why did he have to change your password and email?
Unfortunately you need that email to reset the password, there is no other way. If he forgot his email password, he need to do a reset password on his email to gain access to it again, and ‘then’ reset password for Instagram in turn.
Hey bro.I just wanna say that I just hacked likes and they say that to secure your account we have reset some lyk that came bro plz help…
Sorry, I really have a hard time to try to understand you. What is exactly the problem?
I got an email saying that my Instagram email has been changed now i cant log in ..
By the way i did make another instagram with the same email but it had a (.) In it so can that be the problem ?that i used the same email on both ? How can i get my instagram back i dont care much for the secind one but the first one is the one i can get back ..
If you didn’t change the email yourself, that means your account has been hacked. Please read another of my post to see how you can deal with that: http://moblivious.com/instagram/help-my-instagram-got-hacked/
Ok thank you.
I lost access to my mail and I haven’t linked my fb with instagram. How can I delete my instagram account
You have to get back access to your email, without it you can’t do anything.
change email address
Yes?
pls i want to use new email account becourse am missing alot from my instagram
pls i can use my facebook account to sign in,i need new email account
Help me get back into my Instagram account !!!
What happened?
i forgot my password so I can’t login
You need to reset your password. Which means you must know and have access to your email. If don’t know and/or have access to your email then you are stuck, you might as well forget about it and create a new account.
i need someone to help me
If you tell us what the problem is we might be able to help.
Hi, I know the login and password to my account, but when I log in it says my account needs verification, then it says resend an email to …@example.com (which is not a known email to me or the original one set up for the account). Do you have any idea what to do? Does this suggest it’s been hacked? Will Instagram reply to me?
It looks like your account has been hacked. Report it to Instagram. I’ve posted a link to the form in my other post, just search for hacked instagram on the search box.
I lost my username
You lost your username?
how can i get the email detail of stranger users?
Ask him/her.
nyc
I want to chege my email inestageram
Did you read the article?
Hey chris
My account was hacked and i tried to contact Instagram support to get it back but the problem is they have asked me to provide the email address that i used to sgin up the account and I don’t remember that email how can i get my account back
Thanks!
You must remember the original email. As a matter of fact I know that if you don’t send reply to Instagram using that original email Instagram WILL NOT give your account back.
But I forgot my password
You need to do a Reset Password which will send a link to your registered email address.
I logged out and i tried to log in and it said a password was sent to an email i don’t have anymore. What do i do?
Nothing you can do, you need that email.
thank you for help ! is great that somebody describe this question
Lost my cellphone with my detail,when i tried log my instagram with my new phone. When i enter my email address it says someone has taken my email address. Please help me
Thanks Chris.
I would like to change the email address that I have used to register for instagram. I have no longer been able to access to this email add because I forgot the password. So, I would like to change into another email add for my instagram, and this particular email add is linked to my facebook. I clicked “save” as what you have taught in Step 2. However I have not receive any verification email in this new email address. How do I proceed? 🙁
You must have access to the old email because Instagram will send a verification to that old one. Try to do reset password with your old email.
So I got this email that someone changed my email but I pressed the wrong button and I can’t go back to the page I was in how do I get it back ?
Which button did you press?
There was 2 buttons the first one was this was me and the other one was secure I thought it said this wasn’t me I pressed it and now he gained control of my account
Well, the only way to regain access now is to report that your account is hacked. There is a form to be filled, I have a post with a link to it in this blog, look it up.
I signed up for instagram with a fake email i cant remember it although i remember the passwoed
In that case, forget about this account and create a new one, this time with a real email address!!
I forgot my password and my account email is no longer used 🙁 so how can I login to my account?
You can’t. You need the email to reset the password. Better forget about this account and create a new one. And please this time don’t lose your email.
I used a non existing email when I first made my IG way back. Now IG. Logged me out and it says verify my account by email, but the email I use was made up.. So I can’t get the code to verify my ig account. How can I change my email on my ig if I can’t log in?
You can’t. That’s why it’s a very bad idea to register with a fake email account. Forget about this account and register a new one. This time with a real email address.
I have forgotten my email but i know my password then how i log in and i deleted my email from facebook when i log in on instagram it is not opening what to do
Did you use a fake email address?
My Instagram got hack so unfollow in till I get I back
Hello, so on my current IG I signed up with a fake email. I know the password to my IG account, but I was curious if I can change the email I have assoicated with my IG without having to confirm on the fake email. I’m hoping this makes sense. I just want to change the email to an active email that I know without having to go through a step on a fake email. So is it just possible to change the email and to confirm the active email im using?
tanks alot
tanks for d tips
how i linked my gmail account with insta account
Please read my post again. You don’t link your Gmail, you just change it to which ever email you want to. Linking only works with Facebook.
I am unable to open my instagram account my username is right but instagram is showing that this username did,nt exist .. before this problem I just temporarily disable my account. Then I try back to log in and this problem occur
i know my password but i can’t access my account. How can if verify my account or access instagram.
change email
I put a fake email and I want to put a real email put it tells me to confirm my email on my iPhone and I don’t know how too do that help me !!
Yes, this is the problem with giving fake email for registration. My advise is to forget about this account and create a new one, this time with a real email address.
someone entered into my instagram acc. and changed all linked accounts.. so even if i reset the password the link goes to the hacker’s email.. Prakoso plz help
my account someone hacked
I need help
What happened?
how to reset my email in instagram ..
Just like I wrote here.
Ok
I can’t open my instagram..there is a problem email I create my email directly into instagram so they asking to verify.there is no that’s email my mobile phone..plz help me
good
I want to change email miss79oon on the instgram
I have a problem,I actually have 2 instagram accounts.Well actually i have only one account but something happened and i need to make a new one but i really need my old account back.I linked my old account with my gmail (i forget my old ig pass)so when i try to relog i try to let ig send me an email but then i realised i mistyped my gmail so i try using my facebook then it said “this account is no longer linked to this account” something like dat…… so i have 0 access on log in my old account so i need to make a new ig.I believe my account is not being hack.So when i try to retrieve my old account using my phone number,facebook…it only refers to my new account.Help me with this
please help me i forget my password on my account
My email is blocked beacuse i tried to many times password when i find password my email was blocked because o tried to many times and i can’t get the code what can i do?
I can’t get my instagram page code
My email is blocked beacuse i tried to many times password when i find password my email was blocked because o tried to many times soo i can’t get my instagram page code?
Soo i can’t verify my instagram page what can i do?
hi i want to change my email address of instagram.. when im changing it the error shows “this email already using another account ” plz guide me wht to do ?
You can only use one email address per Instagram account.
Hey there idk wat happend but recently some thing happend to my account on instagram i was gonna log into it and it said that tbey have detected some anusual activity on my account so the said tbat the sent a 6 didget code to d*******a@e******.com and i dont got that email adress how can i get it back if cant even log in??plz help ma account is danielle.alcala
Change your password
I can’t login because I’ve forgotten my email password that i’ve registered in my instagram.But now they are asking for verification code that they had sent to my email.How can I login to my insta or email?
Help me to log in into my account I forgot the password and the email associated with it…and it’s also not opening from Facebook please help me out.
Hi,
Is it possible to reset my password if someone change my email or contact no.
Is it anyway someone stolen my password and Can i use Business id my Instagram a/c ?
Thanks, Great and helpful tips. I have been trying to grow my Instagram followers and this comes in handy.
My Instagram password cheng fast
Thank you for your sharing. Thanks to this article I can learn more things. Expand your knowledge and abilities. Actually the article is very practical. Thank you!
hi… when i logged in on instagram “Suspicious Login Attempt” will show and I need to choose where I’ll send the code whether to my email or phone #, but my problem is i lost my phone as well as the sim card and when i send the code to my email i don’t get nothing 🙁 I can’t use my account anymore
I want to change my email address but every time I tried to do so there is a popped up message saying “We can’t send you confirmation email right now.Try again later”.I am trying this since morning.