Whether you didn’t like the services offered by Yahoo Mail or you have multiple Yahoo Mail accounts. Whatever be the reason you have for closing your account, you can easily delete your Yahoo Mail by following the step-by-step instructions provided below.
However, before you delete your Yahoo Mail account, it is recommended to consider the following:
- Make sure to take a backup of all your important emails, documents, attachments, etc.
- Also, take a backup of all your contacts that you have stored in your Yahoo Mail account.
- Make sure to provide your important contacts (with whom you share emails on a regular basis) an alternate email address for future correspondence.
- If you have any Social websites associated with Yahoo Mail, make sure to take care of them as well.
- If you have any paid subscription associated with Yahoo Mail, clear the dues (if any) and unsubscribe the services.
Once you have considered the above-mentioned recommendations, you can follow these steps to delete your Yahoo Mail account.
5 Steps to Delete Yahoo Mail Account
- Go to the Yahoo Mail sign-in page, enter your username and password in the prompted fields and log into your Yahoo Mail account.
- Once you are logged in to your Yahoo Mail account, go to the Yahoo account termination page @ https://yahoo.mydashboard.oath.com/delete-my-account.
- As you will click on the given link, you will be directed to the Yahoo account termination page. On this page, you will be prompted to consider the given information. Go through the information thoroughly and click on the Continue deleting my account
- On the next page, you will be prompted with a message “Are you sure want to terminate your Yahoo account?”.
- If you are sure that you wish to delete your account, you will need to enter your email address in the prompted field and click on the “Yes, terminate this account”. Your Mail account will be terminated right away.
NOTE: In case after deleting your Yahoo Mail account, you decided to change your mind and wish to recover it, you can do so by following the instructions provided below.
- Go to the Yahoo Mail sign-in page, enter your username in the prompted field as used to do when your account was active, and click on the Next
- On the next screen, you will be prompted to enter your account password. Enter the password in the provided field and click on the Sign-in button. You will be logged in to your Yahoo Mail account as usual.
NOTE: You will be able to recover your permanently deleted Yahoo Mail account only if you sign in to it within 30 days of closing it. However, if your Yahoo Mail account is registered in Australia, India, or New Zealand, you can recover your deleted Yahoo Mail account within 90 days of deleting it.
Similarly, if your Yahoo Mail account is registered in Brazil, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, you can recover your deleted account within 180 days of deleting it.
So, this is how you can delete your Yahoo Mail account permanently.