How to Find Out Who Unfollowed You on Instagram

Written by Jack Lloyd

Last Updated: July 31, 2024 Tested

This wikiHow teaches you how to figure out who unfollowed you on Instagram. Since Instagram has largely banned apps which retrieve this information for you, the easiest and most consistent way to do this is by checking your list of followers either in the Instagram app or on a computer. As of April 2018, an Android app called "Follow Cop" also allows you to track lost followers from the time that you install the app. There is no free iPhone or iPad app that will track lost followers.

Quick Steps

Open the Instagram app and tap your profile icon.
Tap your Followers at the top.
Scroll through your followers list to check for absent users.

Method 1

Method 1 of 3:

Using the Instagram App

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Open Instagram. Tap the Instagram app icon, which resembles a multicolored camera front. This will open your Instagram feed if you're logged into your account.
- If you aren't logged into Instagram, tap the Log in link if necessary, then enter your username/email address/phone number and password.
It's in the bottom-right corner of the screen.

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Tap followers. You'll find this tab at the top of the screen. It will have the number of current followers above it.
- For example, if you have 100 followers, you'd tap 100 followers here.
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Look for absent followers. Scroll through your list of followers and look for missing names. If you don't see a particular person whom you know was following you, they unfollowed you.
- This is difficult to manage if you recently lost a large number of followers, but you should be able to get an idea of the people who stopped following you if they're people you also follow or interact with.
- The user in question may have deleted their Instagram account instead. You can check to see whether or not they still have an account by tapping the magnifying glass icon at the bottom of the screen and then searching for their name.

Method 2

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Using the Instagram Website

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Open Instagram. Go to https://www.instagram.com/ in your computer's web browser. This will open your Instagram main page if you're logged into your account.
- If you aren't logged into your account, click the Log in link near the bottom of the page if necessary, then enter your username (or email address, or phone number) and password.
This person-shaped icon is in the top-right corner of the page.
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Click followers. It's a tab near the top of the page, just below your username. You should see the current number of followers listed on this tab.
- For example, if you have 100 followers, you'd click 100 followers here.
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Look for absent followers. Scroll through your list of followers and look for missing names. If you don't see a particular person whom you know was following you, they unfollowed you.
- This is difficult to manage if you recently lost a large number of followers, but you should be able to get an idea of the people who stopped following you if they're people you also follow or interact with.
- The user in question may have deleted their Instagram account instead. You can check to see whether or not they still have an account by searching for their name in the search bar at the top of the page.

Method 3

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Using Follow Cop on Android

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Understand how this works. Follow Cop is an Android-only app that makes a note whenever an Instagram follower stops following you. Unfortunately, Follow Cop requires your Instagram login information in order to determine whether or not you're losing followers.
- Follow Cop also doesn't let you see which followers you've lost in the past; it only tracks lost followers starting from the time that you log into Follow Cop.
- While Follow Cop doesn't use your Instagram data to post or edit your profile, it will automatically cause your profile to follow the Follow Cop Instagram page.
- If you want to use this method on a computer, you can download and install the BlueStacks Android emulator in order to run the app on a computer.
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Download the Follow Cop app. Open the
Google Play Store, then do the following:
- Tap the search bar.
- Type in follow cop
- Tap Unfollowers for Instagram, Follow Cop
- Tap INSTALL
- Tap ACCEPT when prompted.
- If you want to open the Google Play Store in Bluestacks, click the My Apps tab in the upper-left corner, click the System app folder, and click the Play Store icon.
Tap OPEN in the Google Play Store, or tap the Follow Cop app icon. This will take you to the Follow Cop login page.
Enter your Instagram username and password in the "Username" and "Password" text boxes respectively, then tap LOGIN.
Tap your Instagram account near the top of the page.
It's an option in the middle of the page.
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Close the ad if necessary. Tap X or Close in one of the corners of the screen to do so. This will take you to the "Recent Unfollowers" page, which will allow Follow Cop to begin monitoring your followers.
- Some ads will require you to wait for between 5 and 10 seconds before the X will appear.
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Close Follow Cop, then re-open it when you want to check your followers. By going back to the Recent Unfollowers section of Follow Cop, you can see a list of people (by name) who have unfollowed your Instagram account.
- You may see more ads when opening Follow Cop and checking the Recent Unfollowers section.

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Is it safe to log in with these apps?

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Yes, but if you don't want to share your information with a third party, use the first method.

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Sometimes your best bet is to compare your follower count to its previous version. If you know that you had 120 followers yesterday and you're at 100 followers today, for example, you know that you lost 20 followers. This doesn't tell you who unfollowed you, but if you're worried about analytics, the "who" doesn't really matter as much as the "how many" in this case.

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Warnings

Since Instagram has banned most services from telling you whether or not people have unfollowed you, you can expect any such service (e.g., Follow Cop) to have a short lifespan.

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