The Threads workforce is addressing one of many largest preliminary consumer considerations with the app, with Threads customers now in a position to delete their Threads profile impartial of their Instagram presence.

As you possibly can see on this screenshot, shared by Instagram chief Adam Mosseri, there’s now an up to date course of in your Threads settings (underneath “Account”/”Delete or Deactivate Profile”) which allows you to deactivate your Threads profile. And if you happen to don’t reactivate it inside 30 days, it is going to be deleted completely, along with your Instagram profile being unaffected by any change.

Initially, as a result of Threads is constructed on high of Instagram’s infrastructure, your Threads and IG profiles have been intrinsically linked, as a result of your Threads profile was truly a sub-element of your IG presence, versus being a separate entity.

That spooked some customers, who didn’t need to delete their Instagram profile, however have been undecided on Threads. Instagram promised to rectify this case, and now it has, with a separation of the 2, enabling extra management over every.

Although you possibly can’t have a Threads profile with out an IG presence, in order that they’re nonetheless linked in a single key manner. However now you can eliminate your Threads presence with out having to additionally cull your Instagram id.

Which is an effective transfer, and replace. And as Threads continues to get larger, it appears inevitable that it’s going to change into much more impartial of IG. Although, evidently, that gained’t prolong to DMs.

In one other alternate on Threads, Mosseri has additionally acknowledged clearly that DMs should not at the moment within the pipeline for Threads.

There’s nonetheless a chance that your Threads profile may very well be linked again to your IG DMs, which might then additionally see them linked to your Messenger and WhatsApp inboxes as effectively, by extension. But it surely’s clearly not a precedence for the Threads workforce proper now, based mostly on Mosseri’s assertion.

So, combined outcomes for Threads customers. Now, you possibly can delete your Threads profile, however not separate DMs for the foreseeable future.