Deleting a Telegram account is as simple as deleting a Facebook account or deleting an Instagram account. After completely deleting your Telegram account, you cannot recreate a new Telegram account using the same previously deleted Telegram registration phone number. Telegram also has the option to download your personal account data, saving all account data information. The article below will guide you in detail to delete your Telegram account.
How to download Telegram account data before deleting
Step 1:
At the interface on Telegram, click 3 dashes icon then select Settings in the displayed list.
Step 2:
Display the settings interface for your Telegram account, click on it Advanced section to view advanced settings for the application.
Step 3:
Scroll down and click Select Export Telegram data to download Telegram data.
In the new interface, users will see All the data is in Telegram for you to choose from What type of content do you want to download?
We can Adjust the size of the Telegram account data file. In addition, you can change the location where the data file is stored when downloading, choose the file format as HTML or JSON. Finally, the user clicks on it Export section to export personal Telegram account data.
How to delete Telegram account in detail
Step 1:
First, users access the Telegram link below.
At this interface, the user will Enter the phone number to register for a Telegram account that you want to delete then click Next below.
Step 2:
Telegram will Send confirmation OTP code and you will enter that code into the interface as shown below, Click Sign In to continue.
Step 3:
The user then has 3 options to continue, we will Click Delete Account to continue operation.
Step 4:
Telegram will ask you why you want to delete your account. You can fill it in or skip it, then tap Delete My Account and then click Yes, Delete My Account to delete your account and you're done.
Immediately after deleting your Telegram account, all your data will be deleted from the application's system and the data cannot be restored.
How to automatically delete Telegram account
Telegram has a mode that automatically deletes your account after 6 months of not using it. Users can change that time period again if needed.
Step 1:
At the Telegram interface, click 3 dashes icon then select Settings then click next Privacy & Security.
Step 2:
In the next interface, users scroll down below Delete my account part If away for default to 6 months, automatically delete account if user does not access for 6 months.
Click to change the time again if necessary. We can choose up to 1 year or at least 1 month of not using Telegram for the application to automatically delete the account. After selecting, click Save to save.