How to Close a Wattpad Account

Co-authored by Darlene Antonelli, MA Reviewed by Luigi Oppido

Last Updated: May 20, 2024 Fact Checked

Are you looking to delete or close your Wattpad account? While Wattpad is a fantastic online writing community, you may be wanting to delete your account and move on. This wikiHow article teaches you how to close your Wattpad account using a web browser. You can't close your account using the mobile app or a mobile web browser, so you'll need to be near a computer.

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Go to https://www.wattpad.com/home and log in. You can use any desktop computer web browser to close your account including Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.
- You can't use the app or a mobile browser to close your account.
It's in the top right corner of the web browser and will prompt a menu to drop down.^{[1]
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You'll see this near the bottom of the menu.^{[2]
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It's a red button on the right side of the "Settings" page.^{[3]
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Fill in the required information. You'll have to select a reason to explain why you're leaving and type a response to "What could we have done better".
- That information is mandatory for a few reasons: to give Wattpad a better picture of what makes users leave and to show that it's really you closing the account instead of a bot.
Please close my account." It's a checkbox below the mandatory fields.^{[4]
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This is to further verify that you're closing the account instead of someone else.
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Click Close Account. You'll be able to click on this once you finish filling in everything else on the page.^{[5]
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- Sign in with your username and password again and the account will be reactivated.
- Don't sign in to see if your account has been closed because signing in will reactivate it again. Instead, go to https://www.wattpad.com/user/yourusername (insert your Wattpad username at the end of that link in place of "yourusername") and look for the "User not found" message.^{[6]
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