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.

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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:

import { deleteUser } from 'aws-amplify/auth';

async function handleDeleteUser() {
  try {
    await deleteUser();
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error);
  }
}

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.