In 2021, people use Instagram to connect with their friends and families more than any other app.
This is an excellent platform for sharing photos and videos with your friends and families as your followers and also seeing their posts on Instagram and know what are they up to
Believe it or not, people use social media to find out about each other more than visiting or calling them.
Nowadays, if you ask for someone’s phone number, they will give you their Instagram account instead.
This visual sharing platform made people close to each other and see their pictures almost whenever they post things. Also, it created an opportunity to find people by phone number.
Although searching for someone using their usernames is more common, what happens if you don’t know their username or cannot guess it? What can we do in that case?
The answer is, if you have friends that you haven’t heard of them for so long, it might be a good chance for you to find them by their phone number.
How to find someone on Instagram with their phone number?
If you don’t have the person’s username, or you have forgotten it, you can easily find them by their number,
But under 2 conditions:
- You should have their phone number.
- They have to be on Instagram using that number and not another number.
If you like to find your old friends, follow the structure below:
- Check out that you have their number saved on your phone.
- On Instagram, navigate to your profile and tap on the 3 lines above.
- Tap on “Discover People” and then choose “Contacts.”
- Find the “Connect Contacts” on the page and select it.
- After that, it will start syncing phone numbers to Instagram.
- Instagram will display profiles that are signed in with the numbers saved on your phone.
- Now you can see if that specific person exists on the list or not.
If there aren’t any profiles that are assigned with the numbers you have, the list will be empty.
If you are using the “Find People” feature for the first time, Instagram will ask permission to access your content.
Using the “Add People” feature, you need to approve and accept the access. After giving access to Instagram, it will sync your contacts automatically.
If you are that kind of person who wants to find all his friends on Instagram and communicate with them, It is better to give access to Instagram for syncing the content, so you can find them if they signed up with that phone number.
But some people want to stay anonymous on Instagram so that they won’t give their phone number. Instead, they register with an email address, so their content cannot find them.
This feature is optional; you can either use it or ignore it.
If you are new to Instagram, you better use this option to find more friends and followers first hand.
Because of the Instagram “you might know” feature, after you find your friends by phone number, it suggests other accounts you might know and want to follow.
So your followers will be more and more using these features.
Instagram will ask for your number for another essential purpose
Giving your phone number to this platform is not that optional! Instagram will require your number for security purposes, not just finding friends and families.
When you have a login request by a new device, Instagram won’t let you log in just using your pass, and it wants to make sure that this is your request.
Now, why your phone number?
It is because often nobody has access to your phone except yourself, so it is a fabulous way of security.
Another request is when you forget your password and don’t access to your email address. You can reset your password through SMS and log in again easily using your phone number.
Long story short
Adding your phone number to your Instagram account also has security purposes besides finding your friends and families.
If you add a phone number and sync your contact to Instagram, you will find more people on Instagram, and your community grows faster.
You will connect with more people and find a friend with whom you are not in touch in a while.
We hope you use the “Find People” feature and find the best people that will be with you in your happiness and sadness.
If you have any questions, ask us in the comment section, we will gladly respond ASAP.
