Pinterest has developed bang-up tools assuasive any user to hide or permanently delete your account quickly and easily.

Hither are the actual steps to follow when deleting your Pinterest profile and what happens when you click "Close" button:

How to Delete Pinterest Account (Desktop)

  • Login to your Pinterest account using any desktop browser (FireFox, Google Chrome, Safari)
  • Click three dots in the top-correct corner and select "Settings"
  • Click "Business relationship Settings" and curlicue downward to "Business relationship changes" section where you can choose to either deactivate or shut (i.eastward. permanently delete) your account. Please read below before choosing.
How to Delete Pinterest Account (Desktop)
To close your Pinterest account, find the selection backside "Account Settings" inside your Pinterest "Settings". You tin choose between endmost and deactivating your account.

How to Delete Pinterest Account (Mobile)

  • Open up the Pinterest app on your mobile device
  • Tap your profile picture in the bottom-correct corner
  • Now tap "Settings" icon to the summit-right
  • Tap "Account settings"
  • Scroll downwardly to "Deactivate account" and "Close account" sections. Please read beneath before choosing one of the two options.
How to Delete Pinterest Account (Mobile)
To delete your Pinterest account using its mobile app, tap your profile picture and then find the option inside "Edit contour" section

Pinterest Delete Business relationship vs Deactivate Account (Pinterest)

Pinterest Delete Pinterest Deactivate

In other words

Close Hide

Tin can exist restored

No (Subsequently two-week grace menstruum) Yes (By logging in)

What happens to your content (pins and boards)

Permanently disappear (But Non repins!*) Are subconscious until you login to Pinterest

Can you register a new Pinterest business relationship with the same e-mail and username

Yes (After 14 days, provided your username hasn't been snatched past someone else) No

* If your pins were "repinned" by other Pinterest users, deleting your account or your original pin volition NOT touch on those repins in any way. This is important because, once your Pinterest content is shared past other users, yous lose your ownership being unable to control what happens to that content so.

Once your account is deleted, those re-pins will no longer be attributed to you but they will remain untouched.

A few more notes:

  • If you accept switched to business organisation account (to get access to Ads and/or Analytics) like I did, you lot'll have to first switch dorsum to personal account before existence able to permanently delete information technology
  • Once you delete your account, you'll take two weeks / 14 days to alter your mind. If you do alter your mind within this grace period, simply login to your Pinterest account and yous'll be given a link to restore it
  • One time 14 days are over, you will not be able to reinstate a airtight business relationship, its pins or boards

What Happens When You Delete Your Pinterest Account?

Tin can you register a new Pinterest account with the same username?

No, you will only be able to do that after 14 days of deletion request when your onetime business relationship is gone forever (if no one else snatches information technology before you lot exercise)

Does your Pinterest profile URL render an mistake?

Yep

Can you restore your business relationship?

Non subsequently 14-day grace menses is over

Does your pins and boards disappear from the site?

Yeah

Practice re-pins of your original pins disappear from the site?

No!

What'southward the all-time way to ensure ALL pins and re-pins of yours are deleted?

File a DMCA complaint. Read more about removing your content from Pinterest here.

Takeaways: How to Delete Your Pinterest Account

  • Whether y'all are using a desktop browser or a mobile app, you lot can either close (delete) or conciliate your account by going "Settings" -> "Account Settings"
  • Endmost account means permanently deleting it but yous have 14 days to change your mind
  • Deactivating your account ways hiding your contour and pins until yous login to Pinterest over again (logging in activates account automatically)
  • In both cases, your repins will remain on the site. They will no longer exist attributed to you as the original poster but they volition non be removed / hidden. So if you are concerned about your content on the site, deleting / deactivating your business relationship may not exist the ultimate solution. You may have to manually track downwardly all the repins and request deletion.

At present that we know all the details and pitfalls of trying to delete your identity and owned content from Pinterest, there'south one important conclusion to drive at.

If something is published on social media, at that place may be no way back. Online publication curate social media and apply embedded pins or screenshots to publicize what they take found.

Other Pinterest users re-pin your content to their boards. While you remain the copyright holder of your created content, its spread may get out of your control and deleting your Pinterest business relationship may not solve information technology. Read more about removing your content from Pinterest hither.