What happens after I delete my account?
What goes, what stays, and the 30 days you get to change your mind.
Deleting is not instant and total. Here is exactly what happens, in the order it happens.
Go through these one by one
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Straight away — your account is switched off and every device signed out. Your profile stops being visible to anyone.
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For the next 30 days you can undo it. Sign in with your password and complete the mobile code, and everything comes back.
Nothing is erased during this period. It is a genuine way back, not a formality.
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Your businesses follow the choice you made at step 2. The ones you released can be claimed by someone who proves they run them; the ones you closed keep a read-only "Permanently closed" page and drop out of search.
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Businesses you share with other people carry on exactly as before. Only your own access to them is removed.
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After 30 days your personal details are anonymised. That part cannot be undone.
All checked. Still not sorted? The section below covers what is left, or ask us.
What happens next
Some things are kept on purpose even then: enquiries and reviews other people took part in, and records we have to hold for accounting, fraud prevention, security or the law. Your name comes off them, but the other person's copy of a conversation does not vanish out from under them.