How to close a Yahoo mail account

With the arrival of the Internet and the possibility of having email, many of us created all the possible accounts, hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc. But, with the passage of time you realize you only use a couple of them and you stop using the rest, leaving the input trays overflowing with unread messages. At this point, it is best to eliminate them and forget about them completely. Of course, first check that you do not have anything really important linked to them, because you will lose all contact. If you want to know how to close a Yahoo mail account, keep reading this article and find out.

Steps to follow:

one

Close an email account is very simple, you just have to keep in mind that once done there will be no going back, you will not be able to recover it, just create a new Yahoo account. The first thing you must do is access the Yahoo home page and enter the account you want to delete by clicking on 'Sign in', top right, and entering your email and password.

two

Once inside your account, go to the page of ' Elimination of Yahoo account '. Once inside, read the information before deleting it. If you did not select the 'Stay connected' checkbox in the previous step, it is possible that the session has expired and you must restart it.

3

When you are completely sure that is the account you want to close, you must enter your Yahoo ID, in case it does not appear by default. Go down to the bottom of the page and enter your password right where it says ' If so, enter your password in this field '. Below, you will see that a code appears, write it in the bar dedicated to this and press on ' Yes, Delete my account '.

4

And ready! You already have your Yahoo mail account completely disabled. As you can see, it will take 90 days to completely disappear from the Yahoo database. If you try to access it again during that period of time you will see that you have the possibility to reactivate it . If you do not reactivate it, after three months, you will not be able to recover it and you will have to create a new account.