How to Delete ChatGPT Accounts: A Step-by-Step Guide
If you've decided that you don't want to have a ChatGPT account anymore, you can delete it on your own. The deletion process only takes a few steps, but there are some things you should know before deleting your ChatGPT account. Below, we'll discuss what to expect from deleting your account and how to do it.
Before we proceed, there are some things you should be aware of:
- The following instructions were tested and written based on a free ChatGPT account. It is unclear at this time if these instructions will also work on a ChatGPT Plus account.
- The latest official help guide on the matter implies that its method should work for both ChatGPT free and paid users, but the user interface described in OpenAI's official help guide looks to be different from the one tested at the time of writing this article.
Here's how to delete a ChatGPT account:
Step 1: Log into your ChatGPT account and then select your username from the lower-left corner of your screen.
Step 2: From the menu that appears, choose Settings.
Step 3: On the small Settings window that appears, select Delete account.
Step 4: On the deletion confirmation screen that appears, you'll be given more information about what the deletion process entails and then prompted to enter in your email address and the word "DELETE" to confirm your request to delete your ChatGPT account.
Read that information, and if you still want to delete your account, type your email address into the text box field labeled Please type your account email. Then type "DELETE" into the text box field labeled To proceed, type "DELETE" in the input field below.
Step 5: Once those fields are filled in, a red Permanently delete my account button will appear. Select this button.
You should then be redirected back to the sign-in page for ChatGPT. If you try to log into your account using that same email address, you should see an Oops! error page explaining that you don't have an account "because it has been deleted or deactivated." That's it! Your ChatGPT account should have been successfully deleted.
