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Fed up, group boredom, preference for other instant messaging applications like Telegram or Signal ... There are as many reasons to leave WhatsApp as there are disgruntled users.
This causes many to decide to uninstall this app forever from their phones.
However,
removing the WhatsApp application from your mobile
(whether Android or IOS) is not enough since uninstalling the WhatsApp application does not imply that your account ceases to exist.
In fact,
to effectively delete your WhatsApp account you need to have WhatsApp installed
.
Delete your WhatsApp account
To permanently delete your WhatsApp account, you must follow a series of steps that we show you below.
1. Enter the WhatsApp application.
(For that, you have to have WhatsApp installed and operational on your phone, so it is important that you
do not uninstall the application yet
).
2. In the main WhatsApp menu, click on the three dots.
Select the
settings
option, the
account
option
and click
delete my account
.
3. Enter your
phone number
(the number you use for that WhatsApp account) and select the option
"delete my account" from WhatsApp
.
4. Go to the drop-down menu and select the reason you want why
you are leaving WhatsApp
.
You can select your real reason or anything else.
5. Confirm the option by
clicking on "delete my account"
.
6. Once you have completed all these steps, you can
uninstall the WhatsApp app
from your mobile phone.
What happens when I delete my WhatsApp account?
According to the application itself, deleting your WhatsApp account entails
deleting your message history
and WhatsApp backup from the Google Drive cloud.
WhatsApp warns that it is an irreversible process
, however, it warns that it may take up to three months from when you carry out the procedures to delete your account until this deletion becomes effective.
"It may take
90 days
from the start of the removal process for your WhatsApp information to be erased. Copies of your information may also be kept for 90 days in the backup storage we use to recover data in cases of disasters. natural, software errors or some other event of data loss. During that time, your information will not be available to you on WhatsApp ", warns the application on its question page.
Even deleting your account, Facebook and WhatsApp can keep some of your data
As the application itself warns on the FAQ page, the deletion of the accounts
does not imply the 100% deletion of all the data that WhatsApp
(whose owner company is Facebook) has collected about you.
In this way, from WhatsApp they warn that "it is possible that we
keep your information to address legal issues
, breaches of conditions or initiatives to prevent damage."
At the same time, they also point out that "
the copy of some materials
(eg system records) may remain in our database, but detached from personal identifiers."
Likewise, WhatsApp ensures that it will also "delete personal information that is
shared with other Facebook companies
."
Do you want to delete WhatsApp?
If you are interested in deleting your WhatsApp account, you may want to take a look at our guide to permanently delete your Facebook account.
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