Instagram is currently testing a new way for people to recover their accounts if they get locked out or hacked.

Currently, locked-out account holders have to email specific verification to Instagram’s security team before access can be restored.

According to the BBC, the trial is an in-app function where users submit contact information associated with the account, and then receive an access code.

Using this process, it will work even if the account has been hacked and the details changed.

The form of an emailed photograph of the account holder holding up a piece of paper with a handwritten code on it is one of the ways in which the platform currently accepts verification.

Instagrammer Lindsie Comerford ended up asking an ethical hacker for help after her account was hacked in 2018.

She wrote a blog post about her experience after finding the official recovery process frustrating and unsuccessful.

“Well, apparently to get a hacked account back I have got to email support and help 10 times, leave 3 voicemails, and report my account before I could reach a magical help screen that actually guides you towards getting your account back,” she wrote in a blog post.

“Getting the help is no easy feat though and honestly it requires sheer digital magic.”

Also announced by Facebook-owned Instagram, is that it is introducing a time delay before a username can be claimed by someone else if an account is hacked or the user decides to change it.

The feature is available to all Android users.

Read More At: http://www.techplace24.com/2019/06/17/instagram-to-make-locked-out-hacked-account-recovery-easier/

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iHart:
What I hate about Instagram and Facebook is that they tend to offer same friend list. All my Instagram friends are still my Facebook friends. Same people same discussion, It doesn't make sense to me.

They are both run by FB so its the same

It's also on facebook. Not only iG

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Kenneth10110:
They are both run by FB so its the same

I know, but when we switch from one to another, let's have a different class of friends so the discussion will be different. Imagine if the same people you have on Facebook are the same people you have on Nairaland, nothing changes, updates remains the same and everything becomes boring.

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iHart:
What I hate about Instagram and Facebook is that they tend to offer same friend list. All my Instagram friends are still my Facebook friends. Same people same discussion, It doesn't make sense to me.

Then choose one app

GGirll:
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iHart:
What I hate about Instagram and Facebook is that they tend to offer same friend list. All my Instagram friends are still my Facebook friends. Same people same discussion, It doesn't make sense to me.

follow interesting instagram pages and make sensible comments on posts, you'll definitely have new friends