The German consumer protection portal "Mobile Zescher.D" advised to check five settings in the Instagram application when creating a new account, in order to maintain privacy and data protection, since the new accounts in the application of images are very general.

1. Who can see the account
Instagram allows your photos and videos to be "public" for everyone to see, or "private" can only be seen by your friends on the app. The second option can be activated through the Settings menu, then Privacy and Account Privacy. Privacy), and from there activate the option "Private Account".

When this option is enabled, only your friends will see what you post in the app.

2. Activity status
By default, Instagram shows who your activity times are on the app, and when they are active.To disable this feature, go to Settings, Privacy, Activity Activity, and Disable Show Activity Status.

You should also be able to see when your friends are active on the app.

3. Comments
Comments can be a big nuisance on many social media, and you can control them in Instagram through Settings, then Privacy, then Comments, and here you can block people with their own eyes from commenting in your account, through "Block comments from" (Block Then search for the name of the person you want to block.

In this menu, you can also activate filters to block offensive comments. When this option is enabled, Instagram automatically blocks offensive comments.

If you enable the Manual Filter option, you will be able to add specific words, so that the comment with any of them is blocked.

4. Marks
One of the features available on Instagram is the ability to tag people on their photos, which makes the picture appear in their accounts and is visible to everyone, which is sometimes annoying or embarrassing.

This feature can be disabled in Settings, Privacy, Tags, and then the Add Automatically option is canceled.

If you want to cancel the tags you indicated before disabling this feature, you can do so by hiding the photos or videos you are referred to in.

5. Contacts
When Instagram requests access to the contacts stored in your smartphone, it not only reads them in order to connect you with your friends and acquaintances, but also uses this social network for advertising and advertising purposes.

You can disable this function in Settings, then Account, Contacts Syncing, and cancel the sync option.