Deactivating A Facebook Account | Update

Did you know Facebook allows you to briefly deactivate your account? This enables you to quit others from watching your profile as well as web content, without really removing any one of your information. If you ever before want to come back to Facebook later, you can reactivate your account by logging right into Facebook with your email address and also password.

Our overview will certainly reveal you exactly how to deactivate your account from within the Facebook mobile application.

Note: These screenshots were caught in the Facebook application on iOS. Likewise note, when you deactivate your Facebook account, you can still chat with pals on Messenger.

Deactivating A Facebook Account

Action 1: Touch the 3 lines in the bottom-right corner of the display.

Step 2: Scroll down and also tap "Setting & Privacy."

Action 3: Faucet "Account Settings."

Tip 4: Tap "General.".

Tip 5: Faucet "Take Care Of Account.".

Step 6: Faucet "Deactivate." You might be asked to enter your password after doing so.

Step 7: Scroll down as well as tap the circle to the left of the choice that finest explains why you wish to deactivate your account. You can tap the circle next to "Other, please clarify further:" if you want to enter your own reason.

Important Note: If you pick "This is temporary. I'll be back." Facebook will certainly set your account to immediately reactivate after 7 days. This setting can be customized to anywhere between one and also 7 days, however you can not stop the reactivation from occurring. If you do not want your account to immediately reactivate, you'll require to choose a different selection for why you're deactivating your account.

Step 8 (optional): Relying on your selection, a window might show up defining just how you can deal with the problem without deactivating your account. If you wish to continue with the deactivation process, faucet "Close.".

Step 9 (optional): When you deactivate your account, you may still obtain e-mails from Facebook pertaining to things like occasion invitations and photos you have actually been tagged in. Touch the box to the left of "Pull out of obtaining future emails from Facebook" to stop Facebook from sending out these e-mails.

Action 10: Scroll to the bottom of the display and also tap "Deactivate." This will certainly log you out of the Facebook app and also deactivate your account.

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