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How To Deactivate Your Facebook Account

Simplest - Send a legal email

Did you know that companies respond to lawyers more than to their users? Have a lawyer send an email on your behalf requesting deletion.

Send legal email

Deactivating your Facebook account is easy. This will allow you to take a break and then return to Facebook with all of your settings in tact. To deactivate your account login to Facebook from a computer browser and follow the steps below. You cannot complete this action from within the mobile app.

Delete Facebook - Website - Slides & Instructions

Step #1:

Click here to open Facebook. If you're already logged in, doing so will open your Facebook homepage

Facebook- Deactivate account from website. Step 1: Login to Facebook

Step #2:

Click the downward facing arrow on the top right

Facebook- Deactivate account from website. Step 2: Click downward facing arrow

Step #3:

Click settings

Facebook- Deactivate account from website. Step 3: Click settings

Step #4:

Click your Facebook information on left column

Facebook- Deactivate account from website. Step 4: Click your Facebook information

Step #5:

Click delete your account and information

Facebook- Deactivate account from website. Step 5: Click delete your account and information

Step #6:

Click deactivate account

Facebook- Deactivate account from website. Step 6: Click deactivate account

Step #7:

Enter your password *and click *continue

Facebook- Deactivate account from website. Step 7: Click password & continue

Step #8:

Enter a reason for leaving and click deactivate

Facebook- Deactivate account from website. Step 8: Click deactivate

Delete Facebook - Android - Slides & Instructions

Step #1:

Open Facebook app

Facebook- Deactivate account from android. Step 1: Open Facebook

Step #2:

Tap three bars

Facebook- Deactivate account from android. Step 2: Tap three bars

Step #3:

Tap settings and privacy

Facebook- Deactivate account from android. Step 3: Tap settings and privacy

Step #4:

Tap settings

Facebook- Deactivate account from android. Step 4: Tap settings

Step #5:

Tap personal information

Facebook- Deactivate account from android. Step 5: Tap personal information

Step #6:

Tap manage account

Facebook- Deactivate account from android. Step 6: Tap manage account

Step #7:

Tap deactivate account

Facebook- Deactivate account from android. Step 7: Tap deactivate account

Step #8:

Choose other and enter please delete my account

Facebook- Deactivate account from android. Step 8: Choose other

Step #9:

Tap deactivate

Facebook- Deactivate account from android. Step 9: Tap deactivate

Remember, some of your personal information may remain visible like the messages you send and etc. It is recommended that you change whatever information you can manually before deactivating or deleting your account.

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Questions & Answers

Question:
How do I reactivate my account?
Answer:

Just log back into your account and all of your settings will be restored.

Question:
What is the difference between deleting and deactivating my account?
Answer:

Once you go through the deletion Steps, it can take up to 90 days for your data that’s stored in backup systems to be deleted. However, your info isn’t accessible on Facebook during this time Even after Deletion, copies of some material (like log records) may remain in Facebook’s database, but are “disassociated from personal identifiers,” according to the company.