Love using Instagram? If yes, losing your Instagram might turn out to be a nightmare for you. You might feel disconnected from the world as you realize your Instagram account was disabled. Don’t worry; calm down for a moment and accept that your Instagram account is no longer accessible and you can submit an appeal form to reactivate the disabled Instagram account.
At this moment, you are looking for ways to enable the disabled Instagram account. There might be several reasons for Instagram to disable your account. The reasons could be the effect of violating their terms of use or a technical/human error at Instagram’s end.
Don’t stress yourself; we at GeekDashboard will show you how to reactivate a disabled Instagram account. This guide will show you how to appeal to Instagram to reactivate your Instagram account.
Why Instagram Disabled Your Account? – Identify the Problem
There could be various reasons for Instagram to disable your account. In addition to that, Instagram would log you out of your account without any notice (except through an email). When you log in again, it’ll show you a pop-up stating “Error: Your account has been disabled for violating our teams. Learn how you may be able to restore your account”. The pop-up sometimes may also mention the reason why Instagram disabled your account.
Instagram disables the accounts that usually don’t follow their Community Guidelines or Terms of Use. Here are a few of the common reasons that may lead to disabling your Instagram account.
- Posting illegal, inappropriate, NSFW, or copyrighted content.
- Direct Messaging, Following, or Unfollowing accounts aggressively.
- Misrepresenting someone else.
- Multiple reports of spam on your posts.
- Using foul language in comments or direct messages.
- You may have disabled your account unknowingly.
- Using tools or paying others to increase the likes/followers count.
- For installing mobile apps like Story Savers, Bulk Follow/unfollow, etc.
- For using fake names, and alias while creating the account.
- Faking your real age during signup. You must be at least 13 years old to create and use an Instagram account.
- Due to a technical/human error.
- Might be due to Third-party code bug.
- If your Facebook account is disabled recently for any violation, it may also lead to the ban of your Instagram account.
Instagram is becoming strict with its guidelines over time, especially after Facebook’s acquisition. To avoid losing your account in the future, make sure to go through Instagram’s Community Guidelines. However, your Instagram account can recover if you haven’t violated the Community Guidelines numerous times.
Update (October 31, 2022): Due to an outage, a large number of users are unable to access their Instagram accounts. A lot of user accounts have been suspended wrongly and many users lost their recent followers. Instagram has already acknowledged and fixed the issue.
If your account has been suspended during this period, don’t worry; you will get access to your account very soon once the issue is resolved.
Types of Disabled Instagram Accounts (Bans)
Whatever led Instagram to disable your account, you need to know that there are two kinds of disablements. And the process of appealing or reactivation depends primarily on the type of ban Instagram placed on your account.
Temporarily Disabled Instagram Accounts
If Instagram mentions that your “account is disabled,” then your account is safe. It means Instagram disabled your account temporarily, and you can recover it back. So if it shows that message, you’re in luck and can get your account back.
Permanently Disabled Instagram Accounts
As long as your account is permanently disabled, your chances of getting it back are less to none. In addition to that, your followers will no longer see your account and the posts. If you get an error message saying your Instagram account is disabled permanently, it is highly impossible to get it back.
How to Bring Back Disabled Instagram Account with Mobile App
Given that your account is temporarily disabled, you can rest assured that you can get it back. The “Disabled Account” pop-up on a smartphone would give you the Learn More option when you log in to Instagram. If that’s the case with you, then go through the following steps.
- Open the Instagram app on your smartphone.
- Log in to your by entering your username and password.
- A prompt should pop-up stating that your account is disabled.
- Click on the Learn More option from the prompt.
- Go through the on-screen instructions, and you’ll get to the Appeal page.
- Once you submit the request, you need to wait for a few days to get a response.
Be patient. Sending multiple requests won’t speed up the process. Also, be polite while requesting the reactivation of your account. Don’t show your frustration over there; it might just delay the process further.
If you feel you have violated Instagram policies unknowingly, explain them in the appeal form and assure them they won’t be repeated again.
If the “Learn More” button didn’t appear on your Instagram app, don’t worry, you can still submit an appeal form requesting the Instagram team to manually review your account.
Requesting to Reactivate Instagram Account with Appeal Form
If you strongly believe your Instagram account is deactivated by mistake, you can submit a form to contact the Instagram team. Once you submit the form with detailed information, someone from the Instagram team reviews your appeal and manually checks your Instagram activity.
If they find your account is deactivated by mistake, you will receive an email communication and the account will be reactivated immediately.
You can also use the above contact page to appeal. The appeal form will ask you for your Full name, email address, Instagram username, mobile number.
Finally, write a detailed explanation to let Instagram know why your account shouldn’t be disabled.
Fill in the details and click the Send option for Instagram to review your case. It might take around 5 to 20 days for Instagram to review your case and take action on it.
Be persistent and wait for Instagram to answer your case officially. However, if you can’t wait and want to get back to Instagram as soon as possible, then you’ll be better off creating a completely new Instagram account.
How to Recover Hacked Instagram Account?
Hackers usually go for Instagram accounts to sell your usernames or anything personal. If you think your Instagram account was compromised, it’s best to report it to Instagram as early as possible. To know if you’re account was hacked, check your mail for an email stating, “your account information has been changed.”
If you don’t see an email, open Instagram mobile app and tap on Forgot Password (iOS) or Get help signing in (Android).
Instagram will ask you for your phone number. Provide it, and you’ll receive a code. Enter the code, and you’ll be redirected to the password reset process. Reset the password, and you can log in again.
If you fail to recover your password, the best way is to report the case to Instagram. Instagram will investigate this issue and try to regain access to your account. To report a hacked Instagram account, follow these steps.
- On Instagram’s login screen, tap on Get help signing in (Android) or Forgot Password (iOS).
- If prompted, enter your username, email address, or your phone number, and hit Next.
- Then, tap the Need more help option and follow the on-screen instructions.
Wait for few hours/days until you receive an email from Instagram with 5 digits verification code.
You might have to write the verification code, your name, and your Instagram username on a white paper and upload a photo of you holding it. Make sure you write the text with your own handwriting using a marker and your face & both hands must be clearly visible in the photo.
Once verified, you’ll receive an email with the password reset link, and you can regain access to your account.
However, remember that if hackers deleted your Instagram account, you can’t get it back again. Albeit, you can create a new account with the same email and phone number.
As you can see from the above steps, reactivating or appealing a disabled Instagram account is fairly easy than you would expect. If you’ve followed the tutorial, you might get your account back in under 5 days. Sometimes, it may take longer, up to 20 days. So don’t worry, and be patient.
If nothing looks working for us, it is best to take the help of community. If your Instagram account is big and has a good active user following, make use of other social media platforms like Twitter and Reddit to create hype. Request your audience to tag Instagram’s official handles to let them know about the issue.
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my Instagram account was suspended, and I can’t find the “learn more” or “request review” buttons when I try to log in. Also, I tried to send an appeal through form on the help center, but it was not sent.
How can I recover my account?
Did you find any solution of it because I am trying to appeal till the day its happen it was fine that time but no response and now they have no record of my account
sir/ma’am,
Greetings team with all due respect I am requesting you to re-active my account, as it was linked with my Facebook account (username:- raj_dixit_official, email:- [REMOVED]), and I got suspended due to age restriction.
With all my consciousness I confirm that I am older than 18 years and hold legal rights to use social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook. By appealing on Facebook many times I got my account back (by mailing them and showing all my age proof) but even today I can’t access my Instagram account.
Please, please, please help me to get my account back 🙏🙏.
Thank you
Instagram
@instagram
If your account’s been disabled, there’s a new way to appeal in the app. When you try to log in, you’ll see an option to “Request a Review.” Tap it and we’ll review your disabled account and potentially restore it. We’ll roll out these features over the coming weeks.
Hello instagram team, My personal instagram account has been disabled this account is very important for me I request you instagram please recover my instagram account.
Thanks
My Instagram account @[removed] got disabled when I arrive at that. At that time I change my sim card and not using my account. Even I have not shared my Instagram account credential with anyone. But when I tried to log in to my account I got an error that our account has been disabled for pretending someone else. You won’t be able to log into this account and no one else will be able to see it. This is my real account and I am the owner of this account. I have not violated any rules and regulations of Instagram community guidelines. I don’t know how my account got hacked and I am not able to use my Instagram account anymore. Please reactivate my account @[removed] as soon as possible. I have shared my photo with the code you provided. Please check the attachment too.
These are my Instagram account details,
Username: @[removed]
Full name: Nay Oo
E-mail: [removed]@gmail.com
Mob: +95-[removed]
Country: Myanmar
I’ve completed the “My Instagram account was deactivated” form and tried to submit the form but I keep getting a message saying “We can’t review the decision to disable your account as they have fewer reviewers available due to the coronavirus pandemic so we can’t review this decision right now”. Does this mean they have not received my request to review at all or will it just take some time?
Did you figure it out mine says the same thing
My Instagram account is disabled please help me recover my account and not break community guidelines. I can’t log in to my Instagram.
Dear,
I have nothing to do on my live Instagram only just fun with all people so why did someone hack me again n again? Please help me to lock from someone hacked
Thanks.
Instagram: m.u.h__96
full Name: Muhammad Jamal
Email: [removed]@gmail.com
Mobile: [removed]
sir/ma’am,
Greetings team with all due respect I am requesting you to re-active my account, as it was linked with my Facebook account (username:- Kumar JI, email:- [REMOVED]), and I got suspended due to age restriction.
With all my consciousness I confirm that I am older than 18 years and hold legal rights to use social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook. By appealing on Facebook many times I got my account back (by mailing them and showing all my age proof) but even today I can’t access my Instagram account.
Please, please, please help me to get my account back 🙏🙏.
Thank you
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My instagram was temporarily locked stating that it’s because of this “phishing” sort of thing. As I continued, they required you to send the code you’ll be receiving, but the problem is I don’t have any access to my previous phone number that I used when I created my instagram account. How can I change my phone number in my own account if I’m currently and temporarily locked?
I recently deactivated my account now its disabled
Showing user not found help me
Please my account undisable
i have tried to appeal but it says they do not recognize my account name.
Did you find any solution of it because I am trying to appeal till the day its happen it was fine that time but no response and now they have no record of my account 🤷🤷
Hello Instagram my Instagram account has been deleted from Instagram and this account is very important to me. I will not mistake anything in the future.
Please fix my account and get this account back to me. thank you
Username. mr_masab___143
Email: [removed]
Name: Masab Pathan
Instagram username:mr_masab___143
Please Instagram team my Instagram account is disabled please my Instagram account recover reactivate
Please Instagram team
Thank you
My business account was disabled they suspect I may not old enough. I tried to appeal, but the page showed can’t deliver the data. is there any other way to appeal on it?
When I requested to appeal and I fill my form it will pop up that I can’t send a request now that I should try again later I have been trying for the pass 1 week now so I don’t know what else to do
Hello, Instagram my Instagram account has been deleted from Instagram and this account is very important to me. I will not mistake anything in the future.
Please fix my account and get this account back to me. thank you
Username – [REMOVED]
Name – Rohit Verma
Email – [REMOVED]
Please Instagram team my Instagram account is disabled please my Instagram account recover reactivate
Please Instagram team
Thank you
What if the appeal form isn’t working for me? It keeps telling me that I need to confirm it’s me on Instagram but I can’t log into my account. I’ve tried to reach out to Instagram but they just keep sending me a link that won’t work for me.
Instagram
@instagram
If your account’s been disabled, there’s a new way to appeal in the app. When you try to log in, you’ll see an option to “Request a Review.” Tap it and we’ll review your disabled account and potentially restore it. We’ll roll out these features over the coming weeks.
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My account was disabled @theylovecruno a few days ago & for sum reason I still can’t log back in could you please help the forms aren’t really workin too much for me and I really need this account back for all my fans please help me.
I really don’t understand why my account has been disabled for nothing. I have had this account for about 6 years and It is really confusing why my page has been disabled. Please please return my page back.
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My website’s Instagram was deactivated by Instagram, and we submitted the appeal with the selfie and the code on November 29, 2021. It’s now January 10, 2022 but we haven’t heard anything back yet and our account is still deactivated. Should we expect a response at all? Is the chance of us getting our Instagram back slim to none? Is there any way to email Instagram and ask for a status update? I’ve refrained from doing anything with it besides periodically checking to see if I could login because I didn’t want to reset our inquiry or anything… Any advice is appreciated!
Did you receive the acknowledgment email after submitting the appeal?
I know I didn’t receive a response when I sent the picture with the sign
I have had the exact same issue with my account I lost access to mine in November and it’s now April I have tried every form submitted multiple selfies and still no response I’ve tried to reach out on Instagram but still nothing. Very disheartening when I lost my account considering o didn’t break any guidelines and I can’t get access to it yet there are people like influencers who can post whatever they like and not have their accounts taken.
Dear Facebook&instagram
My account has been disabled 06 months ago on Facebook & Instagram I don’t know how and why my account was disabled. there is no mistake in my account. I have lots of feelings about my account I have been using this account for many years. Please Facebook&Instagram give me my account back.
Please resolve my issue.
Thank you.
Name: Ali Ahmed
Facebook ID: Ali Ahmed
Mobile Number: [REMOVED]
Instagram ID: [REMOVED]
Country : Pakistan
Sir in last option it’s asking that why are you appealing to permanently deactivate your account ..If I fill that my acc will be permanently deactivate what do I do ??
Khushi, the last option says “Please let us know why you’re appealing the decision to permanently deactivate this account“. It means you’re appealing “their” decision to permanently deactivate your account. In short, they already deactivated your account and you are appealing to prove their decision wrong.
Note: Fill the form only “IF” your Instagram account is already deactivated.
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I used storysaver apps and got disabled hope I will be able to get it back
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Thanks you so much.
My instagram was hacked and now disabled and I have submitted the picture with the code from instagram and have gotten no response.
My Instagram account was disabled please help me and recover my account
Sir I think my instagram account was disable. By mistake of server I don’t have used any third party app and not break any community guideline but now I can’t login my instagram account . Sir please look over this issue and enable my instagram account as soon as possible. Thank you.. Instagram team.