First things first, when i delete any account i have i make sure to delete everything inside the account first, convos, posts, stories or any type of activity.

I’m in process of deleting my instagram and i already cleaned everything up except the final boss, my story archive, i have never toggled the archiving option off so the archive has accumulated stories for around 8 years, and of course meta won’t let you bulk delete the archive.

my question is, does it really matter doing all of that before deleting when it comes to privacy?

or can i just simply ignore the fact that the story archive is still there and delete the account anyway?

I’m not even sure about all the steps that i do but i just do it so everthing feels clean when i arrive to the deletion button.