Delete your account
Wipes your profile, posts, DMs, and follows after a 30-day grace period. Some things — like aggregate analytics — stay because they don't reference you.
What it is
Deleting your account wipes your profile, posts, comments, DMs, follows, and reactions after a 30-day grace period. The grace period lets you change your mind; once it's up, the data is gone from our production systems.
How to use it
Open Settings → Account → Delete account. Read the summary of what will and won't be deleted (we list it on the same screen so you don't have to dig).
Confirm with your password and 2FA code if you have it on. Your account is immediately deactivated — no posts visible, no DMs delivered, profile shows as unavailable.
Within 30 days, log in to cancel the deletion. After 30 days, the data is purged and there's no path back; the username is recycled after another 90 days.
Why it matters
Account deletion should be a real exit, not a fake one with leftover data scattered across services. We delete from primary tables and from backups on the next backup-rotation cycle, and we list every category of data on the confirmation screen. What stays: aggregate analytics that don't reference you (e.g. "DAU was X on day Y"), and content from other accounts that referenced yours but stays under their control.