There are many occasions when we may want a secondary Instagram account, whether it is for professional use or simply if we want to have a thematic account of something: with the series you watch and want to recommend, with the books you read, with phrases or designs that you do. Whatever it is, you don’t need two applications or any special tool … We explain how to do it step by step, what options we have or how you can delete it.
You may want a secondary account on Instagram in a professional way: you have a store and you want to upload the content so that others can see it, for example. Or if you have any artistic gift: if you want to upload artistic photographs in a public account and have another private one for your day to day and your most intimate photos, if you want to upload drawings or paintings that you make to share your art, if you are good at writing and you are going to share stories …
- To manage your company’s Instagram profile
- To sell any type of handmade product
- To promote designs and drawings
- For thematic content: books, movies, football, trivia, history
- For professional photographs if you dedicate yourself to it
- For images and travel photos beyond your most personal account
- To upload notes (a common trend is #studygram)
- Etc
Create a new account on Instagram
We have two options to create a new account on Instagram: make two independent accounts and use them in the app by jumping from one to the other, each one with their login details or username and password … Or, have linked accounts that share a login session.
What does this mean? You can have two accounts that are independent in terms of content, followers or followed but share email and phone number. We are going to explain both options so that you can consider which is better or which is more useful to you. Whichever option you choose, it is very important and essential that you do not repeat your password as that will worsen the security of your account and they will be able to access all your data.
Secondary account
If you create a secondary account, you should bear in mind that you will need another email to link it to. Virtually everyone has more than one email account in their name so this will not pose any problem, you simply have to remember which email address corresponds to each account or which password corresponds to each of the accounts.
- Open Instagram
- If you already have your account open, tap on your profile icon
- In the upper left corner you will see your username and an arrow
- Open the drop-down menu
- Choose the option “Add account” at the bottom of the screen
- It will give you two options: Login to an existing account / Create new account
- Tap on “Create new account”
Once we have reached this point we have to choose what will be our username. It must be unique and it must not already be chosen by another Instagram user so it is likely that you will have to try several times to find yours. When you get it, a check will appear next to the name on the right side. If you have it, tap on “Next.” Now Instagram will ask us for a password. Enter the password and tap “next” again.
When you get to the next screen is when we differ from the previous step: we can link the secondary Instagram account to the main one or we can add a different phone or email depending on whether you want to separate one account from another or not. What is better? If they are personal, you can have them linked. If it is for work, perhaps it will be much more useful to unlink them in case someone else has to access or if you do not want the contacts that have you in the phonebook to find you by your phone number …
- You will find two options: Complete registration / Add phone or email
- Tap on the second: Add phone or email
- Choose “Email”
- Indicate the email you want, which can be work or other secondary
- Tap on “Next”
You will receive a confirmation code that they will have sent to your email. Type the code on the Instagram login screen and hit “Next.” You will have already created your secondary Instagram account that you can use as you want and for what you want.
Linked accounts
If you want to link both accounts, you must follow the previous steps up to the point where “Create a new account” is indicated. Once here we will choose our username and password as explained in the previous section. But instead of choosing the option “Add phone or email” you just have to tap on “Complete registration”.
That is, the steps to follow are the following:
- Go to your Instagram profile
- Tap on your name and go to “Add account”
- Choose the option “create new account”
- Choose a username
- Fill in a password for that user
You get to the screen where you explains that Instagram will link the account with your primary account: add the mail and the phone from X to Y . You can update this information whenever you want by accessing the configuration or entering new data. When you have reached this screen, as you can see in the attached screenshot, tap on the “Complete registration” option.
In a few seconds the account will be created and you can use it like any other
How to switch from one account to another
Instagram years ago did not allow managing more than one account from a single app. Now, luckily, yes. From the official application you can have several accounts added… One, two, three or more than five accounts if you are going to manage them all or if you are professionally dedicated to social networks . Changing from one to the other is very simple:
- Go to your profile by tapping on the picture of it
- Look at the top left
- Tap on your username
- A menu will appear with all the accounts linked to that phone
- Choose the one you want
To change from one to another you will only have to repeat this process that will take a few seconds. You can move from one account to another as many times as you want or need.
Delete account
If you have tired of the secondary Instagram account, you can delete it without affecting your main account. You will have to do it from the computer’s browser:
- Open Instagram.com
- Login to the account with your username and password
- Go to the website to delete the Instagram account
- Make sure that the account you want to delete is that
- Choose in the drop-down menu the reason you have to delete it
- Confirm with “Permanently delete account”
After a month, the account will be deleted if you do not log in again.
