How Do I Delete AOL Mail Account?

Do you want to cancel your AOL account membership permanently? But don’t know how to do it? Don’t worry, I am here to assist you with that. 

Process of deleting the AOL mail account is quite simple. All you need to do, open the AOL account termination form and deactivate your account.

But, before doing it, you must know about its consequences.  Like- what happens when you delete the AOL Mail account? can you recover a deleted account etc.

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What happens when you delete an aol mail account?

When you delete your Google account, all services accessed through the account will be canceled. Such as mailbox, calendar, contacts etc. Apart from this, I will not be able to exchange any kind of email.

Not only this, once you will delete your email and don’t log in it within 30 days. You won’t be able to retrieve the same email account. 

How Do I Terminate My AOL Mail Account permanently? 

I have divided the process of deleting aol mail account into two parts. In the first part, we will take a backup of our aol account data. And keep it in a safe place on our computer. 

So that if we need any of it in the future, we can use it. In the second part, we will delete our aol account.

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Step 1- Take the back up of your AOL mail data – 

  1. First of all, you need to open the AOL auth page on your computer.  (AOL >> Profile Picture >> Account info).AOL sign in window
  2. Press the “Privacy control” button. 
  3. Now click on the “Manage your information”. 
  4. Scroll down and click on the “Download my data”. Download my data
  5. Select all information like- mail, calendar and other data types. Request download
  6. Enter the notification email and click on the “Request Download”. 
  7. Finally, AOL mail will send you a notification, once it will be ready to download, you need to download it. 

Step 2 – Delete your AOL mail account permanently – 

  • Open the AOL Auth Page site. 
  • Click on the sign in button. 
  • Now click on the “Continue delete my account”.Continue delete my account
  • Please enter your email account that you want to delete. 
  • Finally, click on the “Yes! Delete this account”. 

Now the AOL mail account will be logged out from your browser. Now don’t login your account within 30 days. Otherwise your account termination process will be canceled. 

How To Delete AOL Mail Account From Android Phone? 

If you don’t have a pc and you want to delete your AOL mail account from your smartphone. Do not worry, here is the guide to terminate your account. 

  1. Open AOL mail App on your phone. 
  2. Tap on the profile picture and Go to Settings
  3. Click on the Manage Account Privacy option. 
  4. Go to the Privacy control section. 
  5. Here, you need to tap on the Your Privacy Control option. 
  6. Swipe down and click on Delete My Account
  7. Enter your email address and tap on the yes! Delete my account

How do I delete my AOL mail on iPhone? 

  1. Open AOL mail app
  2. Tap on the profile app. 
  3. Press Settings
  4. Click on the Manage Privacy option
  5. Swipe up and tap on the delete my account
  6. Finally, click on the yes! Delete this account

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How Long Does it Take to Delete AOL mail Account ? 

When you request for account termination. It will be deleted within 30 days in most of the countries. Meanwhile, in some countries this process may take more than 120 days. 

Why Can’t I delete my aol account? 

Probably, you have subscribed for some paid service on AOL. which you haven’t unsubscribed yet. So first of all, you need to go to the account privacy control and cancel the subscriptions. Also, you need to pay the remaining bill. 

Shawn M. Vaillancourt

I am a computer engineer. Who is always passionate to right about gadget troubleshooting. I have more than 5+ years of experience in the tech industry.

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