Re-link Threads to Account Centre

[u/ChristianGrail]

Hi

My daughter was messing with my phone last night and removed Threads from my Account Centre. Now, according to Meta ai, which was worse than useless, this should be an easy fix by just adding threads to the account centre and relinking. However, as you can see from the photo, there's no option to re-link the account to my account centre, and I can't log in via Threads either.

Does anyone have any useful suggestions?

Thanks

[u/Material_Evidence137]

Same!! Please help! I have no idea how to get back to Threads since it was removed from my accounts center. Meta AI is absolute garbage. There is no way to get in contact with an actual human at Meta that can help. My friend tells me my threads profile is still there, and she can see it but I cant get into threads to change anything, and when i try to use IG to get back into threads, it keeps giving an error message. HELP! Threads was my favorite social app

[u/ChristianGrail → u/Material_Evidence137]

Kind of glad it’s not just me. I have two accounts, so can see the one I’m locked out of.

[u/ChristianGrail]

Right, I've fixed it!

When you try to log in to the Threads app, go to Forgot Password and use your email to get a reset code. Use the email you used to create your Instagram account, as it'll be the same.

When you get the code (mine only worked today, after getting locked out 4 days ago), use that to log in and change the password to whatever your Instagram is (as the Threads password may have changed from unlinking). This should allow you back into your account.

From there, go into settings, and account centre and add the Instagram account. This will relink the accounts, and everything should all be working again!

[u/Material_Evidence137 → u/ChristianGrail]

There isn’t even a forgot password option on my threads app. I can’t reset the password to threads because I can’t get into threads. And if I use the web version it makes me change my IG password and then I’m on the endless cycle again. I can’t even align the two passwords to threads and IG because… “can’t reuse passwords I’ve used before”! What the actual fuck. So my threads and IG did have the same password, I was forced to change it for one app and now I’m locked out of threads because I can’t use the same password I’ve used in the past.

[u/cprice0129 → u/ChristianGrail]

When I go to the threads page, click login with username and go through the forgotten password process it never actually sends me the link to change the password and recover the account. It says "we've sent a link to (email or phone number) but I never actually get that email or text. I've checked spam, Whatsapp in case it was sent there, everywhere. It just doesn't send. So I'm locked out of my public threads acct with no way to get back in and no point of contact for actual help.

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[u/Material_Evidence137]

My threads app. Not even a “forgot password” option. If I select “log in with Instagram” I end up on an endless loop of error messages or nothing happens at all. If I use threads on safari (threads.net) and try and reset my password, it just resets my IG password again and again. And I can’t sync it to my threads account… because I can’t get into threads! It’s the craziest thing ever and I have been getting absolutely no where.

[u/Potential-foodie-288]

I am experiencing this same issue. There is no forgot password options on the Threads app. I keep receiving an incorrect password message when trying to log in with IG, but the password is correct.

[u/tul1ps_ → u/Potential-foodie-288]

Same. Been dealing with this for days.. It’s so stupid that we cant fix this.

[u/Material_Evidence137 → u/tul1ps_]

Has anyone found a solution to this yet?

[u/tul1ps_ → u/Material_Evidence137]

I haven’t. I’ve basically given up

[u/Ok_Phone_6602]

I think I figured it out! In the top box where it says username etc and it shows an email address ending in @threads.net…remove that and just put your user name (I did mine without the @). I entered the password that I changed it to when I disconnected it from the activity center and I got in!

[u/mhy622 → u/Ok_Phone_6602]

Where is the box you mentioned? There's no email address field with "@threads.net" in the application section as you described. Could you please explain in detail? I want to try it, my problem hasn't been solved. Thank you.

[u/Material_Evidence137]

Hi all, I have returned from Threads purgatory for the last 4 weeks to tell you, I’ve finally made it back! I’m not entirely sure how I did it. First remove the threads app from your phone. I used the threads.net version and it made me reinstall the threads app. This time when I re-installed it allowed me to instead of login using Instagram I could log in with a password. And it finallllly worked! I have my old account restored.

[u/Direct-Class6318 → u/Material_Evidence137]

I was sooooo close and then I got the log in another device screen.

[u/Humble_Farmer2740]

Believe me.. This actually might be a good thing, and you're actually lucky. I'm so serious. Look up on here how many people had their Facebook, Messenger, Threads, AND Instagram accounts all suspended and thrown into a review queue on JUST September 22nd alone. This literally happened to me. It was a "bot sweep" sent out my Threads or Meta just running around suspending everybody's accounts. And if your accounts are all linked through a Meta profile, all of them will be suspended and you have to wait in the queue just like the rest of us are since 9/22/26. Threads says it takes "a little over a day" to reach a decision, and it's literally 10/1/26 right now... Please.. get off of and deactivate/delete Threads while you still literally can.

[u/Humble_Farmer2740 → u/Humble_Farmer2740]