Instagram is an application whose popularity has skyrocketed in recent years. This popularity has also caused hacks, improper access to accounts or identity theft to have increased significantly in it. Therefore, it may be the case that someone has accessed our account without our permission and without our knowledge.
Although the reality is that the social network itself has a tool that will help us in this case. Since it has a function with which we can see if someone has logged in or logged in on our Instagram account. A good way to be aware of the activity of our account.
Over time, many measures have been introduced on Instagram aimed at improving the security and privacy of the account, think of examples such as two-step verification in it. A feature that was also introduced in the application is the logon history, with which you can see all the times that you have entered or logged into said account on the social network.
The specific name of the role is Login Activity. It will leave us with the data of the times that the user has logged in, so each user will be able to check if someone has entered their account, by the date and time of said login. We may detect some activity that may not be normal for the account. If by using this method we can see that someone has entered the account, it is important to take action. From changing the password, or activating two-step verification on the account.
Instagram login activity
The first thing we are going to have to do in this case is open Instagram on our Android phone and log into our account. Once inside the application we have to enter our profile, and then click on the icon with the three horizontal stripes in the upper right part of the screen. From the options that come out we enter configuration, which is located at the bottom of the screen.
In the account settings we find various sections. The one that interests us in this case is Security. If you use an old version of the app, it is the Privacy and Security section, since these two sections have been separated in new versions of the app. We then enter the Security section and then we look at the section called Access Data, which is where we have to enter, so we click on it.
It will take a few seconds to load and we find a series of data about our Instagram account. We have to go sliding until we get to the Account Activity section. This is the section that interests us, where we can see the section on Session starts. To be able to see the account logins, we just have to click on the blue text that says See All, so that we will be able to see this data in a simple way. So we can see if someone has logged into the account at some point.
Instagram also lets us see the session closings. It may be that we never close session, but we just see that someone has closed session, that there is some date on which the account was closed on the social network. With this registry we will have access to said data in a simple way. So we can also look at this section, to see if there is activity that is not usual in the account. A good way to detect any irregular activity in the account, which means that we must improve its security.
