How To Close Facebook Account Permanently

Do you want to close your Facebook account immediately? Read this post to know how to permanently delete or temporarily deactivate your Facebook account. Nowadays, everyone addicted to social networking sites and the Facebook is most popular social networking site. Social networking sites are useful to connect with friends, family, and other people all around the world. But, its addiction is the most common issue. Students are most addicted to social networking sites and apps like FB, Whatsapp, Snapchat, and Instagram, etc.

Most people check their FB profile after a few minutes. Because of this, Students do not concentrate on their studies, and many people lost their concentrates on work.

Also, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the security breach of 50 million Facebook accounts, most of its users lost their trust in it.

However, now Facebook gives better control over the profile information includes photos, videos, comments, search history, and posts to manage. You can easily delete any specific data without deleting the account permanently.

So, whether you are a Student, Employee, or businessman. If you are Facebook addicted, in some situations, you may need to close your account.

Well, Facebook offers two options to close the account.

1. Close or Delete Facebook account permanently (Delete forever).
2. Deactivate Facebook account temporarily (Deactivate account for few days).

There are rare chances when someone wants to close or delete their account permanently. Because most people use the “Deactivate” option to close the Facebook account for a few days, weeks, or months.

Though there may be many reasons you have to shut down your Facebook account and you can do this easily. But, think twice before shutting down the account permanently. Because you cannot recover your data after deletion. But, thanks to Facebook to provide an option to download all your profile information. So, you can download all your data before deleting your account.

Difference Between Deleting and Deactivating Facebook Account

Before proceeding, you must know the difference between deleting and deactivating the account. You need to select the option according to your requirement.

What happens when delete your Facebook account permanently?

When you delete your Facebook account, then you won’t reactivate it (Though, you have the option to cancel the deletion within 30 days). All your data will be deleted from Facebook servers. So, you will not be able to access the information or the content you have shared on the platform. Also, note that all your messenger data includes chats & messages will also be deleted.

• No one can see your FB profile.
• You cannot reactivate your account.
• You cannot use a messenger.
• All your data (photos, videos, posts, and other) from the account will be deleted forever. You can’t get your data back.
• Messages you’ve sent will remain visible to the recipient.
• You can’t use Facebook login for other apps.

Well, you can cancel the deletion within 30 days you initiated the process. After 30 days, you won’t be able to reactivate or retrieve the information from your account.

Also, it may take up to 90 days to delete all data from your account. During the process, no one can access the data or information.

Note: Copies of FB account data/information may remain in the Facebook servers even after 90 days.

Common Reasons to Close or Delete Facebook account permanently.

• You are Facebook addicted and you want to go away from it.
• For some privacy reasons.
• Lost the trust due to recent login data breach.
• You want to create a new account and delete an old FB account permanently.
• You don’t like Facebook and uses other social networking sites.

What happens when you deactivate your Facebook Account?

When you deactivate your account, then, your profile will not be visible on Facebook. But, you can reactivate your Facebook account anytime. You can use this option to take a break from Facebook.

• Your profile will be hidden from the FB users.
• You can use Messenger after deactivating the account.
• All your account information (photos, videos, and posts) won’t be deleted.
• You can use Facebook login for other apps.
• Messages you’ve sent will remain visible to your friends.
• Your name will remain visible to your friends on their friend’s list.
• You can reactivate your account at any time.

You can log in to your account to access and enable your account at any time.

Reasons to Deactivate Facebook Account.

• You want to take a break from FB.
• You only want to use a Messenger.
• Want to delete the account but keep using Facebook login for other apps.

How To Close & Delete Facebook Account Permanently

Before deleting or closing your account, you need to download all Facebook data (Facebook Archive). Here is How To Download All Facebook Data at once. With this, you can download all data from your profile like photos, videos, contact information, friend list, and messages, etc.

1. On PC/Desktop browser

Open Facebook website (facebook.com) from the web browser. Click on the downward-arrow icon from the top right of the screen. After that, go to Settings & Privacy » Settings.

Now the Settings will be open. Click on the Your Facebook Information tab. From this tab, you can view, download your information, and delete your account any time. Scroll down and click on the Deactivation and Deletion option.

After that, a new web page will be open and you’ll see two options for Deactivate and Permanently Delete account. Select the Permanently Delete Account option by click on the radio button. After that, click on the Continue to account deletion button.

Now the delete account page will be open. You can directly open this page by opening https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account link from your browser and log in to your Facebook account. You can do this on both PC and smartphones.

Click on the Delete account button and you’ll see the pop-up window for security reasons to confirm. Enter your password and click on the continue button.

After that, Facebook will show you the final confirmation and tells you that you have 30 days to cancel this process, click on the Delete Account button.

Now, you will be logged out from your account. Your profile will no longer be visible on Facebook. But, you’ll still have the option to cancel the deletion process. Just log in to your account and cancel the deletion request.

2. On Facebook App for Mobile

Note: The steps are almost the same for the mobile app and browser. You can also open a https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account link from the mobile browser.

Open the Facebook app and tap on the menu (three horizontal lines) from the top right. After that, scroll down and tap on the Settings & Privacy and then Settings.

Now the settings will be open. Scroll down and tap on the Account ownership and control option.

After that, select and open the Deactivation and deletion option.

Selection any reason (optional) and again tap on the Continue to account deletion button. Scroll down to the end and tap on the Delete account button.

After that, enter your password for confirmation and tap on the Continue button.

From the final confirmation, tap on the “Delete account” button to proceed.

After that, you’ll be logged out from your account and the process will be started.

How To Deactivate Facebook Account Temporarily

You can deactivate your account from the Facebook app, Smartphone’s browser, or PC. Also, you don’t need to download the profile information before doing this. Because this will not delete any data permanently.

1. On Desktop/PC browser

Open facebook.com from the web browser and click on the down arrow icon from the top right of the web page.

Click on the Settings & Privacy and open Settings from the list of options.

After that, click on the “Your Facebook Information” tab from the left and click on the ‘Deactivation and deletion” option from the bottom of the web page.

By default, the “Deactivate Account” option is selected. So, click on the “Continue to Account Deactivation” button.

After that, enter your password for security confirmation and click on the continue button.

Select any reason and check the mark on the “Email opt-out” option. (Note: When you choose the reason, then, a message will appear. Close that message). Also, enable the checkmark for Messenger option to keep using messenger even after deactivating your FB profile.

After that, click on the “Deactivate” button to proceed and you’ll be logged out of your account.

That’s all. You have done it. To reactivate your account, log in to your account again.

2. On Facebook App

Open Facebook using an app or browser, and tap on the menu (three horizontal lines) from the top right of the screen. After that, scroll down and go to “Settings & Privacy” and then “Settings”.

Scroll down and open the “Account ownership and control” option.

After that, tap on the “Deactivation and deletion” option.

Select “Deactivate account” option, tap on the “Continue to account Deactivation” button.

Enter your password for confirmation, and tap on the Continue button.

Select the reason and hit the continue button again.

After that, scroll down and tap on the drop-down list from the “Reactivating your account” and select “Don’t reactivate automatically” option. Hit the Continue button again.

On the next window, select the “Keep using Messenger” if you want to use Messenger. Also, you can select the option to opt-out of receiving future notification from Facebook. Scroll down and tap on the “Deactivate My Account” button.

That’s it. You’ll be logged out of your FB profile, and the profile will no longer be visible to other FB users. When you again log in to your account, then your account will be reactivated automatically.

Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q’s)

1. Is it possible to cancel the deletion process?

Yes, you can cancel the deletion process within 30 days. To cancel the deletion process, Log in to your Facebook account and you will see the message about “Cancel deletion”. Click on the cancel deletion option to cancel this process.

2. Can I cancel the deletion process after 30 days?

No, you cannot cancel the deletion process after 30 days. You need to create a new Facebook ID.

3. How to delete Facebook account permanently immediately?

For permanent deletion, there is no option available. You have to wait for 30 days. Your account will be hidden after the process will begin.

4. How to delete an old Facebook account without login?

However, you can recover your account password. But if don’t, you can report your old profile as fake. This method may help you.

5. Is there any way to download all Facebook account data (photos and videos)?

Yes, you can download all Facebook account data at once. Here is How To Download Facebook Data.

6. How to reactivate Facebook account?

Just log in to your account by typing login credentials, and it will reactivate automatically.

7. When I choose the reason “This is temporary. I’ll be back.”, then it allows only 7 days to deactivate my account. How to increase these days?

Choose any other option to prevent this issue. You can select the “Don’t reactivate automatically” option.

8. Is it possible to deactivate the Facebook account without Messenger? (I want to use the only Messenger.)

Yes, it is possible. Check the mark on the “Keep using Messenger” option while deactivating.

Final Words

So, now you know How to close Facebook account permanently or temporarily. You can select the delete or deactivate options according to your requirements. Think twice before Close or delete the account permanently, and download all your data from the account before proceeding.

However, you will have 30 days to cancel the deletion process. But, after 30 days, no option will available to retrieve back your information. If you don’t need to delete a Facebook account, don’t do that. You can use the Deactivate option to close the Facebook account temporarily.