Delete your account

You can delete your account yourself from inside Forklist. It takes about a minute, and you do not need to give a reason.

Do it from Settings

Sign in, open Settings → Account, and choose Delete my account and pins. You have to type the word DELETE instead of tapping a button, because this cannot be undone.

It is the same screen in the Android and iPhone apps. The button below opens it either way.

Open Settings → Account

Before it runs, the app shows you exactly what will be deleted.

What is deleted

• Your account, and its link to the Google or Apple account you signed in with. The Google or Apple account itself stays as it is.
• Every note you wrote, your ratings and your upvotes.
• Every guide you wrote, published or not. Its link stops working at once.
• Your guide address, forklist.me/guide/ and the name you picked. It is free at once for anyone to take.
• Your saves and upvotes on other people's guides.
• Your profile photo, your banner and every photo you added to a place or a guide, files included.
• Your lists, your Been and Want to try, the places you took off the table, and your passport.
• How you ranked the places you've been.
• The asks you sent naming friends who went with you, and the asks sent to you. A place a friend said yes to stays on their list.
• Your reactions to friends' forks, and which friend's fork or message you forked a place from.
• Your place in every challenge, and any challenge you said Not now to. A challenge you started with friends carries on for the others, without your name.
• An ask you sent into a challenge stays with that friend, without your name.
• Your friendships, any requests still pending in either direction, the requests you declined and anyone's decline of yours.
• The nicknames you gave friends and any nickname a friend gave you, with any record that the team removed one.
• Your group memberships, your conversations and your notifications.
• Every crawl you started, your place on anybody else's, and the record of who you took off a crawl and who took you off theirs.
• The polls you started and your votes, and every table you opened and every seat you asked for.
• The people you blocked and anyone's block of you, the point you sent to any meet request, and your answer to the age question.
• Any support message you sent.
• Every session, so every browser and every phone is signed out.
• Your age record, and where it came from.
• The team's record of anything it took down of yours.
• Every report you filed, open or closed.
• The push token for each phone where you turned on notifications, so they stop arriving, the key your phone's widgets and nudges use, and the pick Fork me remembers.
• Any place left with no notes, and any group where you were the only member.
• Everything RevenueCat keeps under your account, your Forklist Plus purchases included. A subscription through Apple or Google carries on until you cancel it there.
• If you signed in with Apple, Forklist tells Apple to cut the link, so the sign-in stops working from Apple's side too.

It happens at once. There is no 30-day wait and no undo. When the screen says it is done, the data is gone. Backups of the database are kept for seven days, so a copy may exist for up to seven days after that.

What stays

A place other people have also written about stays on their maps, but everything you added to it is removed. A stop you added to someone else's crawl stays on it, and so does any line you wrote there, without your name. A group that still has people in it keeps the name you gave it, without your name.

Reports other people filed about you or something you added stay with the Forklist team. Each keeps the kind of thing it was about, the reason, when it was filed, who filed it, whether the team has closed it, and the words of whoever filed it, which may name you. There is no set end yet. When there is one, this page will say it. These reports share one random code, so the team sees them together. Nothing in a report leads back to your account.

The team's log of what it opened or changed keeps your account id, which no longer leads to anyone.

Copies on other people's devices are out of Forklist's reach. If someone on a crawl with you saved it as a PDF, it keeps any line you wrote and your first name.

Apple or Google keeps its own record of a Plus purchase, which carries your Forklist account id, or on Android a code made from it. To ask Apple for a copy of what it keeps, go to privacy.apple.com. For Google, use the Data and privacy page of your Google Account.

If you own a group with other members, Forklist asks you to pick a new owner first. That is the only thing that can hold it up.

Delete one thing and keep your account

You can remove anything you added without deleting your account. Sign in and remove it where it is:

• A note. Open the place and choose Delete note. If it was the only note there, the pin comes off the map with it.
• A photo you added to a place. Tap the × on it. The image file is deleted too.
• Your profile photo or banner. Open Edit profile and choose Remove photo or Remove banner.
• A list you made. Open it and choose Delete.
• A guide. Open its page from Forks › Your guides, through Preview if it opens in the editor, and choose Delete from the three dots. This works with or without Forklist Plus, and its link stops working at once.
• A photo in a guide. Take it out of the guide while you have Forklist Plus. The file is deleted a day later, or with the guide.
• A crawl link. Open the crawl and choose Stop sharing. The link stops working at once.
• A Been, a Want or an upvote. Tap it again.
• A friend. Choose Remove next to their name.
• A group. Choose Leave next to it. If you own it and other people are still in it, you pick a new owner first.

Each of these is deleted as soon as you do it. Backups of the database are kept for seven days.

Delete on a chat only takes it off your list. The other person keeps their copy, and the messages are deleted when you delete your account.

Take a copy first, if you want one

Settings → Account → Download my data gives you a file of your notes, places, friends, groups and messages: everything held about you except four things: reports other people filed about you, the team's log of what it took down, Google's details about a place, and what other people keep private about you, such as whether a friend you named has answered yet or a nickname a friend gave you. Do this before deleting, because afterwards there is nothing left to download.

If you cannot sign in

Write to socials@forklist.me and ask for your account to be deleted. If you can, send it from the email address on the account, so the right account is deleted. You will get a reply when it is done.

This does the same as the button in the app.