Account verification by email.

I uploaded one photo, test photo of some fireworks.

About an hour late, the account is suspended.

Email states;

Your Instagram account has been suspended. This is because your account, or activity on it, doesn't follow our Community Standards on account integrity.

If you think we made a mistake, you have until December 31, 2025 to appeal.

If you don’t take action, your account will be permanently disabled.

There's a link to verify, which has only one way to verify, by providing a phone number.

Phone number is the gold standard for collating information from third parties and although I may be wrong, I suspect this is the real reason for suspension, as a device to obtain phone number.

The text "Community Standards on account integrity" is a link.

This goes to a page which forces you to accept all cookies.

On that page is generic information - there is no way to make the appeal mentioned in the email. I can see no way to make that appeal.

Note the text says the account will be permanently disabled, not deleted, so Instagram are not deleting what they have; only permanently disabling the account.

Searching on-line, Instagram gives the following instructions to delete an account;

You can delete your account by going directly to Accounts ownership and control settings in Accounts Centre. Or you can follow these instructions:

This is not possible, as it is not possible to log in (logging in takes you to the page to provide a phone number for authentication).

Finally, the email address which sent the email is a "no-reply" address.