How To Delete A Yahoo Mail Account

Deleting your Yahoo account means that you will lose access to all of the data, information, and content associated with it.

You still want to close your account forever? If so, you will find the instructions below so helpful; simply scroll down to see how to delete a Yahoo Mail account permanently.

Before deleting your Yahoo account

Here are some important things to know before you delete your Yahoo account:

     - Yahoo won’t let you permanently close your account if it has a remaining balance or active paid subscriptions. So, be sure that you have no active subscriptions before moving on to any further steps to delete your Yahoo account.

     - If you want to backup your data, please take time to download everything associated with your account that you want to keep.

     - You can reactivate your Yahoo account, including your Yahoo Mail account, within 30 days (or even longer) of deleting it.

     - If you’ve registered for any other accounts or services online using the Yahoo Mail account that you want to delete, don’t forget to update your email address to another active one in the settings of these accounts or services.

How To Delete A Yahoo Mail Account

It’s easy to delete your Yahoo account. The whole deletion process just takes a few clicks, and following are the details.

Step 1. Open a web browser and go to your My Subscriptions dashboard to view the status of your subscriptions. Again, be sure that you have no active paid subscriptions. If you’re paying for any services, you’ll have to cancel them all and then wait for Yahoo to complete the cancellation process so that you can delete your Yahoo account.

Step 2. Go to your Yahoo Mail account. Make sure you are logged in.

Step 3. Click on your profile picture at the top-right corner of your Yahoo Mail screen. Next, click "Account info."

Step 4. In the left menu, select "Privacy Controls" to go to your Yahoo Privacy Dashboard.

Step 5. In the Yahoo Privacy Dashboard, scroll to the bottom of the page. Under the "Delete your Yahoo account" section, click "Delete my account" to go to the Yahoo account termination page.

NOTE: You can also go to the Yahoo account termination page using this URL: https://yahoo.mydashboard.oath.com/delete-my-account

Step 6. Once you’re landed on the Yahoo account termination page, you will see a warning message from Yahoo. Read it thoroughly.

If you still want to delete your account, simply click the “Continue delete my account” button.

(If you don’t want to delete it anymore, click the “Cancel” button to leave the deletion process.)

Step 7. Next, enter your email address and click “Yes, delete this account.”

You now will receive a message telling that your account has been deactivated and scheduled for deletion.

That’s how to delete a Yahoo Mail account! Once again, it’s important to note that you have 30 days to reactivate your account. After about 30 days, your Yahoo account will be deleted permanently.

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How to Reactivate Your Yahoo Mail Account

If you change your mind and want to reactivate your Yahoo account as well as your Yahoo Mail account, here’s how:

Step 1. Go to https://login.yahoo.com/.

Step 2. Log into the account that you want to reactivate using your usual username and password.

Step 3. Verify that you want to recover your Yahoo account and create a new password for it.

That’s it! However, again, please note that after you delete your Yahoo account, you only have 30 days to recover it. So, if you want to reactivate it, you should be fast.

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Bottom line

That’s all about how to delete a Yahoo Mail account. As you can see, it takes just a few steps to permanently close your Yahoo account as well as your Yahoo Mail account. And of course, you can delete your account at any time. More importantly, you can also reactivate your deleted account with ease as long as the 30-day period is not over.