What to do if your Instagram has been blocked?

A lot of people that own an account on Instagram have been facing blocking accounts, especially those who are quite active on this social media app. Usually it is about losing the access to your profile, which does not allow you to log in or stops you from doing certains actions on Instagram. In this article we bring you some tips about what you should do if your account faces blocking. 

Reasons for blocking account on Instagram

Before starting an account on Instagram, you should get acquainted with all the rules of this network. In case these are violated you may get blocked on Instagram. 

The below are the main rules and reasons that could block your account if these are violated:

• Suspicious profile activity - it is about actions that cause suspicion of cheating followers and likes for your own or someone else's account. Sometimes it is enough to like someone's photo or comments too often to get banned. 
  
• Complaints from other users - Moreover, they can complain about individual posts and comments, and about the whole account. 
  
• Spam - It is about the publication of duplicate messages and materials, including in Direct Messages.
  
• Use of several IP addresses at once or their frequent change. Well, to avoid such type of blocking, you should not use VPN services or the Tor browser to log in, these are changing your IP very often and cause suspicion. 
  
• Posting Prohibited Content. The content that includes information which encourages or calls for violence. Photos or videos of a pornographic nature, comments and messages that contain manifestations of racism are also considered a violation of the rules. 
  
• Placement of personal data, including photographs of documents or bank cards, phone numbers and any other confidential information. 
  
• Conducting illegal activities, including the sale of purchase of drugs, prescription drugs or weapons. 

The most common reason for Instagram blocking accounts is copyright infringement. This one includes illegal use of photos, including their repost, without the permission of the copyright holder. 

Another reason to get blocked is the sale of copies of products of well-known brands, and even the place of trademarks on the images that the owner publishes on his profile feed.

Types of blocking account 

An Instagram account can be blocked temporarily or permanently, for several hours, days or weeks. The access that is temporarily blocked is called ban. Moreover, you can enter your profile, but you will not be able to perform certain actions: put likes, leave comments, doing Live or edit followers. 

A social network can ban a profile for a large number of identical actions - for suspicious activity. There are no ways to restore temporarily blocked Instagram accounts. When receiving a ban, the user only has to wait for automatic unblocking. 

Another option for temporary blocking on Instagram is shadow, it is in an invisible form to the user. For such a ban, the validity period is up to 2 weeks. It is expressed in a decrease in the coverage of messages and posts. Publications become inaccessible to followers and other users of Instagram. In this case, unblocking is also automatic. There is no point in contacting technical support for the user to be assisted.

It is worth taking some actions to restore access to theInstagram profile only when you face the third type of blocking, which is - Permanent. The page gets disapbled forever and you must contact the technical support. In case you don't contact them, your profile will simply disappear. After that, recovering your account will not be easy at all. 

How to unblock an account?

After making sure that the users have blocked the profile, and not temporarily withdrawn or limited in opportunities, you should tackle the problem. But you shouldn't count on fast and guaranteed unlocking.

It gets very hard to recover a profile that has been blocked for insulting or posting inappropriate content. It is almost impossible to do this if the user has violated copyright or engaged in illegal activity. Therefore, ever having learned how to unblock Instagram, if the profile is blocked, it will most likely not work if there are serious violations. 

The Help Center

The most affordable way to recover an account is the Instagram Help Center. You can find them here!

After that, you should perform the following actions:

• Indicate whether the page is being used for commercial purposes or not. 
  
• Indicate your contact information - full name, Instagram nickname, e-mail address and country of residence
  
• For commercial use of the page, attach the required documents, including license, invoices, tax return and registration certificate.
• Wait for an answer to the mail. Sometimes it will have to wait for several days or even weeks.

You can accelerate the process by reapplying for unblocking from another e-mail. When a letter from technical support is received, the user must accurately follow the instructions provided. They could ask you to send additional documents to confirm ownership of the profile. 

For an individual account, you must take a picture with a recovery code, login on Instagram and full name written on a sheet A4. 

In case you do not receive any answer, you should try to write to technical support again. The account can be refunded from the second or third attempt. 

How to avoid future blocking 

To secure a profile on Instagram, the user must comply with all the rules of the social network, follow the restrictions and post unique content. You can not use prohibited methods of promoting information and be hostile to other users. You should also link your Instagram page to your Facebook profile, and to protect yourself from hacking, create a complex password and change it periodically. And also - add at least one photo of the page owner to the feed to make it easier to confirm the profile.

These are the rules that you must follow when using an Instagram account. Try to respect all the rules that this social media has. If you want to develop and create a good community on Instagram, you should know that being right and accurate is the best to stay safe on Instagram.