Many WhatsApp users are currently migrating because new terms and conditions will come into force on February 8, 2021. How you can also delete your WhatsApp account, I have summarized that for you in the following. The instructions for deleting a WhatsApp account are split between the iOS application on the iPhone and the app on Android devices. You can find WhatsApp alternatives here.
Chapter in this post:
Delete WhatsApp account on the iPhone
If you use the Messenger from Facebook on iOS on the iPhone, then deleting the user account is not difficult at all. Before doing this, you should copy out important chats or individual pieces of information that you don't want to lose or take screenshots. You can save important things quickly and easily as text using Web WhatsApp on a Mac or PC. When the most important things are secured, you can delete your WhatsApp account - and it works like this:
- Open the WhatsApp app on the iPhone
- Tap on "Settings" at the bottom right
- Select the menu item "Account"
- At the bottom, tap "Delete my account"
- After entering the phone number, tap on "Delete my account" (red font)
Delete WhatsApp account on Android
If you use the WhatsApp Messenger from Facebook on an Android smartphone, removing the user account is not particularly difficult here either. Of course, when using the Android mobile phone, it is also possible to save important chats or individual information manually - via screenshot or via WhatsApp Web on a Mac or PC. Then simply copy the text and paste it into a text file. Once that's done, you can delete the WhatsApp account - here are the instructions:
- Open the WhatsApp app on the Android smartphone
- Tap on the three points (menu) and select "Settings"
- Tap the menu item "Account"
- Then tap on “Delete my account”
- After entering the phone number, tap on "Delete my account" (red font)
Source: Official FAQ
What happens if I delete my WhatsApp account?
If you delete your user account in the green messenger app from Facebook, you do not have to accept the terms and conditions, which will apply from February 8, 2021. However, you can of course no longer use the app without an account. Some data will also be lost. WhatsApp summarizes this directly in the app and on the FAQ pages on the Internet as follows:
- The WhatsApp account including all information and profile picture will be deleted
- The chat history in all chats ever started will be deleted
- You will be removed from all WhatsApp groups
- The Google Drive backup (Android) will be deleted
- The iCloud backup (iOS) will be removed
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With the terms and conditions was rowed back a bit, May 15th should now be the date of the new terms and conditions. At the beginning of 2014, when WA was taken over by FB, there was already an outcry, many have come back to WA. Will it get better without WA? Many acquaintances have registered with others, but whether they remain active there and delete WA ??? I hardly believe it.
Well, with the Zuckerberg it is questionable anyway whether it has not been using the data for a long time. As often as he has lied to his users, expect anything. I am definitely planning to leave and switch to Threema. In the class groups of my kids there are already the first alternative groups of students who have also used Threema as a service. So it doesn't seem that wrong.