The short version. You can delete your account from inside the app in under a minute, no questions asked. It is permanent: your account, everything you published and everything tied to it is gone. If you cannot use the app, email us from the address of your account and we do it for you.
Delete some data and keep your account
In BLAB., open one of your own posts, open its options menu, choose Delete and confirm. This removes the post and its conversation. You can also delete your own comments from their options menu, and clear optional profile information in Profile → Edit profile. Your account and other content remain. Backups roll over within 30 days; safety reports may be retained as described below.
If you cannot use the app, write to [email protected] from your account email, with your @name and the links or a description of the data you want removed. We will confirm the request by replying to the same address.
Delete your account from the app
- Open BLAB. and go to Profile → Settings (the gear).
- Scroll to the bottom and tap Delete account.
- Confirm the first dialog.
- Type the confirmation word — Delete (capitals and accents do not matter) — and continue.
- Confirm the last alert. There is no way back after this one.
The app signs you out at once, and the deletion runs on our servers right away. If you had a draft or muted words on the device, they are wiped too. If you want a copy first, do Settings → Your data before step 2: after deletion there is nothing left to export.
What gets deleted
- Your account (identifier, email, sign-in link with Apple or Google) and your profile: @name, avatar, bio, links, country, streak.
- Every post you published, with its photo or video and its conversation.
- Your comments and reactions on other people's posts, and their reactions to yours.
- Who you follow, who follows you, and your blocks.
- Your media files in our storage, including the previous avatars.
- Your device's push token and your notifications inbox.
- The usage signals tied to your account.
Your @name becomes free for someone else to take. Backups roll over within 30 days.
What may be kept
Crash diagnostics lose their account identifier when your account is deleted. The reports can remain without that link until their 90-day retention period ends.
Reports — the ones you filed and the ones others filed about your content — may be kept without your identity attached, so that we can keep moderating fairly and answer legal requests. Nothing in them can be linked back to you once the account is gone. Copies of your posts that other people had already shared outside the app (a screenshot, a link preview cached by a chat) are outside our reach.
By email instead
If you no longer have the app, cannot sign in, or simply prefer it, write to [email protected] from the email address of your account (the one you used with Apple or Google; if you hid it with Apple's relay, write from the relay address you can see in your Apple ID settings) and tell us your @name. We will confirm by replying to that same address and delete the account within two business days. We cannot act on requests that come from a different address, because we have no other way to know it is you.
Related
What we store and for how long is in the Privacy Policy. For anything else, see Support.