Since for some people (including me) VPN method doesn’t work, I added some extra steps and managed to get back all of my accounts.
For this we won’t be using Instagram app, but 2 browsers, one regular browser and the other with VPN extension or Opera’s built in VPN option). You will never directly open links through email but just copy them and paste where I say. Follow everything step by step and watch
the email titles I mention.
- First open phone browser (no VPN on this one)
- Go to instagram.com and login
- (Help us secure… message pops up)
- Copy “secure your account” link from email (email title - “New login to Instagram”) and paste it to VPN browser
- Type in new random password
- You get “suspicious login attempt”
- Verify with code or phone number (after that you will get kicked out back to login page)
- Login again
- (Help us secure… message pops up)
- Copy secure your account (email title - “New login to Instagram”) and paste it to regular Phone browser this time
- Type in a password you plan using in the future
- (Help us secure… message pops up)
- Copy “secure your account” (email title - “Your Instagram password has been changed” - this one could end up in Social category if you use Gmail), paste it to VPN browser
- Finally you’ll get “Is your profile information correct?” click “Yes, it’s correct.”
You will be logged in through VPN browser, after that you can log in anywhere else without the annoying popup.