How to See Who Unfollowed You on Instagram: 3 Ways (No Password)

Updated: 25 September 2026 · 5 min read

Does Instagram show who unfollowed you?

It doesn’t. There is no “unfollowers” list and no notification — Instagram’s own help page says people aren’t told when they’re unfollowed. All you have is your follower count and your current follower list. Both tell you how many people left, never who.

So every method does the same thing underneath: it compares your follower list at one point in time with a later one. Whoever is on the first list but not the second unfollowed you. The three methods below differ only in how much of that work you do yourself.

Method 1: Check your follower list by hand

If you suspect one particular person, this is the fastest way.

1. Open their profile.
2. Look for the “Follows you” label near their username. No label means they don’t follow you.
3. Or open Followers on your own profile and type their username into the search box.

It works for one person. With hundreds of followers it can’t tell you who left, because you don’t know whom to look for.

Method 2: Compare two exports from Instagram’s own data tool

Instagram lets you download your follower and following lists as files. It’s official, free, and involves no third party.

1. In Instagram, go to your profile, open the menu (☰) and tap Accounts Center.
2. Under Your information and permissions, choose Export your information.
3. Pick your account and, instead of everything, select only Followers and following.
4. Choose JSON or HTML as the format and start the export.
5. You get a notification when the file is ready; the download link stays valid for a few days. Inside the archive, your followers are in a file like followers_1.json.

Repeat the export a few days or weeks later and compare the two files. Usernames on the first list but not on the second are the people who unfollowed you — paste both lists into a spreadsheet to match them up. Menu names shift slightly between app versions; Instagram’s help page has the current steps.

Careful: the archive may also contain a section of accounts you recently unfollowed. Those are people you unfollowed, not people who left you.

The upside is that it’s official. The downside is the effort: you wait for a file every time, compare two long lists yourself, and your history is only as long as the files you kept.

Method 3: Use an app that does the comparison for you

Some apps automate Method 2. KimGitti is one, and it works like this:

1. You sign in with Apple or Google.
2. To connect Instagram, you log in inside the app, on Instagram’s own login page. Your password never reaches KimGitti; the session stays on your phone.
3. The app reads your follower list from your own phone, in your own session, and compares every update with the previous one.
4. The Lost Followers list shows everyone who left, by name and date. New Followers, Not Following Me Back and Mutuals come out of the same update.

One limit worth knowing: your first update is the starting point. Arrivals and departures show up from the second one on. That isn’t specific to KimGitti — no app can know who left before it first read your list. An app promising “all your past unfollowers” is promising something it can’t have.

The three methods compared

Stay away from apps that ask for your password

Some apps offering this ask for your Instagram password in their own form. Typing it there lets that company log in to your account from its own servers, which can trigger suspicious-login warnings, a locked account, or worse. What to check before you connect any app is in are unfollower apps safe?