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Delete Account

You can permanently delete your Signal account from the phone where you originally set it up.

Important: Signal accounts are deleted after 120 days of inactivity. To keep your account active, open Signal regularly on the primary phone.

Delete your Signal account

We cannot delete your Signal account for you. You must delete your account yourself from the Signal app on the phone where you set it up. We cannot accept account deletion requests by email or other methods because we cannot verify that the account belongs to you.

Requirement: Signal must be actively working on the phone where you set up your Signal account to make changes to the account. You cannot make changes to an account that isn't set up on your phone.

To delete your account:

  1. Open Signal on the phone where you set up your Signal account.
  2. Go to Settings > Account > Delete Account.
  3. Enter your phone number and confirm.

Deleting your account removes your phone number from being recognized as a Signal user.

Delete Signal Desktop data

Deleting Signal Desktop data does not delete your Signal account. It only removes your messages and other Signal data from that computer.

Your Signal account remains active on your phone and any other linked devices.

  1. Open Signal.
  2. Navigate to Preferences.
    • Mac: Go to Signal > Settings.
    • Windows: Go to File > Preferences.
    • Linux: Go to File > Settings.
  3. Select Privacy.
  4. Choose Delete application data to confirm.

To delete your Signal account, follow the steps above on the phone where you set up your Signal account.

Uninstall Signal Desktop

To remove the Signal Desktop app and its local data from your computer:

Windows

Replace <YourName> with your Windows User in the steps below:

  1. Select Uninstall Signal.exe in C:\Users\<YourName>\AppData\Local\Programs\signal-desktop.
  2. Manually delete C:\Users\<YourName>\AppData\Local\Programs\signal-desktop.

macOS

  1. Delete the Signal.app file from the /Application or ~/Application directory.
  2. Delete local data from ~/Library/Application Support/Signal.

Linux

  1. Use apt-get remove signal-desktop.
  2. Delete ~/.config/Signal.

Don't have the phone you used to set up Signal?

Signal must be actively working on the phone where you set up your Signal account to delete or make changes to it. You cannot delete an account that isn't set up on your phone because there is no way to verify that the account belongs to you.

If you no longer have access to the phone where you set up your Signal account, your account will be deleted after 120 days of inactivity. After that, your phone number will no longer be recognized as a Signal user.

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