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How to delete a Deviantart account?

If you want to close a Deviantart account, the solution is hard to find.

The reason: You’ll need a special removal page to do it and it takes up to 8(!) clicks to close it. We will show you below how we deleted our Deviantart account on a desktop computer:

 1  Open the special deactivation page

by going to https://www.deviantart.com/settings/deactivation.

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 2  Log in

by entering your username/email and password.

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 3  Yes, deactivate my account

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 4  Enter your password

and choose: “Yes, send me the verification email”.

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 5  Account Deactivation confirmation

is the subject of the e-mail you receive immediately from Deviantart.

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 6  Click on the green button in the e-mail

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 7  Yes, deactivate my account

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 8  Indicate why you’re leaving

and click on Confirm

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 ✅  Congratulations

Your account has been deactivated.

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Source screenshots (& thanks to): Deviantart.com | Outlook.com

1 thought on “How to delete a Deviantart account?”

  1. I have tried this and when I received the deactivation email, I was told to log in again and then the deactivation page came up. I never got the part where I specify why I was leaving. What should I do? Did I do anything wrong?

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