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:

func deleteUser() async {
    do {
        try await Amplify.Auth.deleteUser()
        print("Successfully deleted user")
    } catch let error as AuthError {
        print("Delete user failed with error \(error)")
    } catch {
        print("Unexpected error: \(error)")
    }
}

func deleteUser() -> AnyCancellable {
    Amplify.Publisher.create {
        try await Amplify.Auth.deleteUser()
    }.sink {
            if case let .failure(authError) = $0 {
                print("Delete user failed with error \(authError)")
            }
        }
        receiveValue: {
            print("Successfully deleted user")
        }
}

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.