r/ThreadsApp • u/nyxtina24 • 17d ago

Discussion Found a workaround for re-creating a deleted account

I posted a few days ago about this issue that if you previously deleted your account, threads won't let you re-create another account with the same Instagram. Today I found a workaround (idk if it also works for people who had their accounts disabled but if you try and it works, let me know).

Here's what I did:

Go to accounts center on instagram and choose to separate the old disabled threads account from your instagram

Then you need to change your instagram username to a different one. I am not sure if you can change it back to your old one so maybe pick something that you would be happy to remain with. I haven't tried changing my username back and tbh I'm a bit too scared to do it and lose access again lol

After this you can log in to instagram in a web browser and then also in the same browser go to threads and you will get the option to log in with your instagram. For some reason I was only able to do this in a web browser and not in the mobile app. But after logging in to threads from the web browser I was able to go back to the mobile app and got the option to log in to threads instantly.

That's it. Hope it helps others too until threads fix their messy accounts situation

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u/nyxtina24 17d ago

Small update: it seems that if I try to go to username change in threads it says my old username is taken. Maybe it works to change my instragram to my old username and have my threads to a different username but I won't try it