How to find people on instagram with phone number

By India Today Web Desk: All of you must be aware of the fact that we can find friends on Instagram through search bar by just typing their username. But, what if you don't know the person's username? It becomes quite difficult to find the person on Instagram without knowing his/her name.

Many of us don't know that Instagram also allows us to search our friends (even if we don't know their usernames) through the medium of phone number.

How to find someone on Instagram using phone number:

Step 1: First of all, save the person's mobile number in your phone's contact book as you can only find a person whose number is saved on your contact list.

Step 2: Open the Instagram app on your smartphone and go to your profile by tapping on the 'Profile' icon available at the bottom right corner of the screen.

Step 3: On your profile page, tap on the hamburger icon at the top right corner of the screen and select 'Discover people' option.

Step 4: Out of the two available tabs, select the' Contacts' tab to find people by phone number.

Step 5: Tap on 'Connect Contacts' and grant the permission to Instagram to start syncing contacts.

Step 6: Now you will see a list of contacts on your Instagram. Find the people you want to follow or tap on the follow all button to follow everyone available in the list.

How to link your Instagram account with your Facebook profile?

If your Instagram and Facebook account is linked then you can share your posts directly from Instagram to Facebook:

Here is how you can share your Instagram posts directly to Facebook:

Step 1: Go to your profile and tap settings.

Step 2: Tap account, then tap linked accounts.

Step 3: Tap Facebook and enter your Facebook login credentials.

Once you link your accounts, you'll have the option to share a post to Facebook from the same screen where you add a caption. Other than that you can also share from Instagram to a Facebook Page you manage.

However, at any point in time, you feel that no longer want to share your Instagram photos on facebook on Facebook. Only in a few steps you can disconnect/unlink your Instagram from Facebook, it hardly takes a couple of seconds.

How to disconnect/unlink your Instagram account from Facebook profile?

Here are the following steps you need to follow to unlink your Facebook account:

Step 1: Go to your profile and tap settings.

Step 2: After that tap linked accounts.

Step 3: Tap Facebook, and then tap Unlink Account (iPhone) or Unlink (Android).

Your account will be unlinked. Now any of the new posts that you share on Instagram will no longer appear on Facebook. Hence, your facebook friends will not be prompted to follow you on Instagram.

Other than that learn how you can delete your Instagram account.

How to delete an Instagram account:

Step 1: Go to the 'Delete My Account' page on Instagram's official website.

Step 2: Login to Instagram on the web, if you're not already logged in on your browser.

Step 3: Select a reason of deleting your account from drop-down menu right next to 'Why are you deleting your account'. The option to delete your account permanently will only appear after you've stated the reason for deleting it.

Step 4: Re-enter your password and click on 'Permanently delete my account'.

An account can be deleted permanently only when you are logged in to your account, so, if you don't remember your password, you can reset your password using your phone number, email address, or Facebook account.

Want to search for someone on Instagram and follow them? Don’t worry, it’s not creepy and social media aims to connect people. Now if you don’t know the account name, how to search for the person’s account? This post would help you search for people on IG without knowing their user names.

How to find someone on Instagram by phone number

• Method 1: Use Instagram suggestion feature
• Method 2: Find someone’s Instagram by phone number
  • How it works:
  • Intelius
  • BeenVerified
  • PeopleLooker
  • Spokeo
• Method 3: Find the person on Instagram through other social media
• Method 4: Find the person with a photo
• Method 5: Find the person from mutual friends’ profile

Method 1: Use Instagram suggestion feature

If you have someone’s phone number and are quite sure the person did have an Instagram account, you can sav use the phone number to find someone on Instagram.

If the person didn’t use this phone number to register on Instagram, you can’t find the person’s Instagram account.
Move to Method 2 for help.

1) Save the person’s phone number in your phone’s contact book.

2) Open Instagram and tap the Profile icon on the bottom right corner of the screen.

3) On your profile page, tap on the three lines icon at the top right corner of the screen and tap Discover people.

4) Tap Connect besides Connect Contacts.

5) In the pop-up window, tap Allow Access.

6) If you see the Couldn’t load users window, tap Settings.

7) Tap the button beside Contacts and back to Instagram.

8) Back to the Profile > Discover People page, you can see their profiles under All Suggestions. Now you can find and follow the person you want.

Note: If you don’t have the right phone number that’s connected to their Instagram, you can’t find the person.

If you have trouble finding someone on Instagram with their phone number, you can move to the next method.

Method 2: Find someone’s Instagram by phone number

If the phone number you have is not the one used for their Instagram account, don’t worry, the people search service would help you find the Instagram account.

How it works:

1. Use reverse phone number services to find out the owner’s name, pics, and other information.
2. You can enter the person’s full name into the people search tool, wait for a few minutes, you’ll get a detailed report that contains all social media accounts, even hidden ones.

Intelius

Intelius is a leading provider of public data about people and their connections to others. By using its powerful reverse phone lookup service, its comprehensive data engine produces a confidential report that includes the phone number owner’s name and associated information, e.g. social media profiles. That’s one way to find someone on Instagram from a phone number.

1) Go to Intelius official website.

2) Enter the phone number and click SEARCH.

3) You’ll acquire a complete report that contains the information you need.

BeenVerified

BeenVerified is a powerful people search tool that provides a detailed report that includes personal information, contact, property, marriage record info, and social media accounts. It’s a great tool with detailed reports to search the person’s public information.

1) Go to BeenVerified.

2) Type in the Name/Email/Phone number/Address and hit Search.

3) You’ll acquire a complete report that contains the information you need.

4) Search the person on Instagram with the information.

PeopleLooker

Running a social media search with PeopleLooker is easy. All you need to do is input the information you have on hand, whether it’s an email address, phone number, name, and it will comb through public records and accurately locate the person associated with the profile. 

The search returns will also include age, address, phone number, email, criminal records, and profile photos. The more active someone is on social media, the more information a search may be able to acquire.

1) Head to the official PeopleLooker website. Choose the engine according to what you have on hand, then enter the information and hit Search.

2) The report with related information will be ready in a couple of minutes. After unlocking the report, you’ll acquire the available information you need.

Spokeo

Spokeo is one of the most powerful phone number tracking tools you can find and it’s easy to use. By entering the phone number, you’ll know information including names, addresses, social media profiles, court records, criminal records, email addresses, and more.

1) Go to the Spokeo official page.

2) Type in the phone number and hit Search Now.

3) You’ll get a report that contains information associated with the phone number. Unlock the report to find the person’s social media profile.

4) Search the user name and follow the person.

Method 3: Find the person on Instagram through other social media

If you don’t know the phone number, but you do know the person’s Facebook name, you can find the person’s profile through Facebook.

1) Add the person to your Facebook friend list.

2) Open Instagram and tap the Profile icon on the bottom right corner of the screen.

3) On your profile page, tap on the three lines icon at the top right corner of the screen and tap Discover people.

4) Tap Connect besides Connect to Facebook.

5) Log into Facebook and back to Instagram.

6) You can find the person’s profile on Instagram.

If you don’t know the person’s Facebook account, you can use Spokeo to find the person’s social media accounts.

Method 4: Find the person with a photo

If you have the person’s ins photo you’re searching for on Instagram, you can use the Instagram reverse image search to find the original source of a photo.

1) Save the photo on your PC.

2) Open Google and click Images.

3) Click the camera icon.

4) Click Upload an image > Choose File.

5) After uploading the file, Google will show you the result.

Method 5: Find the person from mutual friends’ profile

This is the last option to find the person on Instagram when you don’t have the username and the correct phone number. It takes effort and is not very effective, but you can find the person’s Instagram profile if you two have common friends.

Follow your mutual friends’ profile and check the followers and following list to find the person. Using the search feature wisely may save you a lot of time. Check out the posts, comments, and stories highlights as well, you may find the profile tagged somewhere.

So that’s pretty much everything you need to know about this topic. We hope this post would help you find the person on Instagram as you wish.

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By Iris Zheng

Iris is a writer who covers almost everything from beauty to technology, fitness, home decoration and etc. No matter what she wrote, she always brings true and useful information for readers.