Delete user account

Empowering users to delete their account can improve trust and transparency. You can programmatically enable self-service account deletion with Amplify Auth.

If you have not yet created an Amplify Gen 2 app, visit the quickstart.

Allow users to delete their account

You can quickly set up account deletion for your users with the Amplify Libraries. Invoking the deleteUser API to delete a user from the Auth category will also sign out your user.

If your application uses a Cognito User Pool, which is the default configuration, this action will only delete the user from the Cognito User Pool. It will have no effect if you are federating with a Cognito Identity Pool alone.

You can enable account deletion using the following method:

Amplify.Auth.deleteUser(
    () -> Log.i("AuthQuickStart", "Delete user succeeded"),
    error -> Log.e("AuthQuickStart", "Delete user failed with error " + error.toString())
);

Amplify.Auth.deleteUser(
    { Log.i("AuthQuickStart", "Delete user succeeded") },
    { Log.e("AuthQuickStart", "Delete user failed with error", it) }
)

try {
    Amplify.Auth.deleteUser()
    Log.i("AuthQuickStart", "Delete user succeeded")
} catch (error: AuthException) {
    Log.e("AuthQuickStart", "Delete user failed with error", error)
}

RxAmplify.Auth.deleteUser()
    .subscribe(
      () -> Log.i("AuthQuickStart", "Delete user succeeded"),
      error -> Log.e("AuthQuickStart", "Delete user failed with error " + error.toString())
    );

We recommend you update your UI to let your users know that their account is deleted and test the functionality with a test user. Note that your user will be signed out of your application when they delete their account.