Instagram launches a series of new tools with which protect users from hacks of your accounts. The social network wants to improve account protection, as well as avoid potential hacks. These new tools are aimed at preventing and protecting user profiles.
Instagram will protect your account with these tools
A fundamental tool in this sense is your new website, where they explain the steps to follow to recover your account in case you have suffered a hack. So you know what to do in these situations.
New security tools
Instagram will let you follow these steps so you can recover your account. One step in this process is to ask your friends for help. You can use a couple of friends who will verify your account, to prove that it is you and that you have indeed been hacked. They will receive a notification in which they will have to confirm this, which will help in this account recovery on the social network.
The social network wants you to be more prepared and alert, which will also show in messages and notifications. They will start warning about potentially harmful accounts. Especially in the case of those accounts that try to impersonate others, the social network will tell us that their name or their photos are too similar. So we can see that it is indeed a fake account.
Instagram will inform you if your content is not promoted on the platform
In addition, the social network will display the verified icon in several parts. This increased presence of his will help us know that this is a real account. These new Instagram tools are already in effect on the platform. It is a good help against possible hacks or to be able to avoid them, so it will be necessary to see if they work as desired.
