The past week has been a tough one for WhatsApp. The messaging giant rolled out a new privacy policy update. It focused on how you communicate with businesses on Whatsapp and offered more transparency over the data collected. The company stated that it will now start sharing this data with its parent company, Facebook. This caused widespread outrage and users globally accused WhatsApp of invading their privacy.
If you are also concerned about your privacy and you no longer want to use WhatsApp, or if your WhatsApp data becomes corrupted, you can take care of this by deleting your WhatsApp account. Many people are now considering this drastic option ever since it was announced that WhatsApp will now require you to share your chat data with Facebook. Many of you might already have accepted the terms and conditions. However, if somebody has not accepted the conditions, then their WhatsApp account will be suspended and the user will no longer be able to access it. However, as a backup, a lot of users have shifted to some WhatsApp alternatives like Telegram, Signal, etc.
Deleting your WhatsApp account is a decision that should not be made lightly, as deleting your account will permanently erase all your WhatsApp data from their server which cannot be restored later on even if you choose to reactivate your account in the future, your deleted data will be gone forever and you will not be able to recover it, a fresh new account will be created on your number.
With that out of the way, if you still want to know how to delete your WhatsApp account you can follow the simple steps mentioned below.
How to delete your WhatsApp account:
Step 1: Open WhatsApp on your smartphone.
Step 2: Tap the More (three-dot) icon in the upper-right corner.
Step 3: Tap Settings.
Step 4: Tap Account.
Step 5: Tap Delete my account.
Step 6: You have to enter your registered Phone Number in the full international format.
Step 7: Tap Delete my account.
Step 8: Select a reason for Deleting your account in the dropdown.
Step 9: Tap Delete my account.
Step 10: For the final time, tap Delete my account.
While deleting your account can be easy enough but WhatsApp makes you re-confirm your decision to do this quite a few times throughout various pages. While it might seem annoying, but it's good that the company does this to put stress on the importance of what you're doing.
Once you tap the "Delete my account" button on that final page, your account will be deleted along with all the data like your chat history, you will be removed from all the WhatsApp groups you are added in and backup on Google Drive will be gone for good. However, if you decide to get back on WhatsApp, you will need to create a new account from scratch.
When you delete your WhatsApp account:
After you delete your WhatsApp account it may take up to 90 days from the beginning of the deletion process to delete your WhatsApp information. Copies of your information may also remain after the 90 days in the backup storage that is used to recover in the event of a disaster, software error, or any other event that leads to data loss. Your information will not be available to you on WhatsApp during the time. Also, the information that other users have relating to you, such as their copy of the messages you sent them will not be affected. Your log records in WhatsApp may remain in WhatsApp's database but are disassociated from personal identifiers. WhatsApp may also keep your information for things like legal issues, terms violations, or harm prevention efforts.
You can read the law and protection section of the privacy policy here for more information.
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