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How To Delete Aol Account

Learn how to permanently delete AOL emails. AOL Cleaner software is the best solution to mass delete emails from AOL account.

By singhada roiPublished 3 years ago 4 min read
How To Delete Aol Account

There can be a myriad of reasons for delete AOL email account. Some people delete it because they don’t need it because they have another mailbox, and colleagues get confused and send emails to two addresses. Accordingly, the user has to check both email accounts every day, which is not very convenient. It’s possible that so much spam arrives at the e-mail account that it’s easier to create a new one.

You cannot delete your email account without closing your AOL account completely. This means that you will completely lose access to all AOL services, including the AIM instant messaging service. In addition, your email and address book will be permanently deleted after 90 days and you will not be able to restore your account.

  • Log in to your account at aol.com.
  • Click on the “Your Account” link in the top left corner of the page.
  • Under “My Account,” click on the “Account Settings” link.
  • On the “Account Settings” page, click on the “Delete My Account” link at the bottom of the page.

Step 1

Open the My Account page on AOL, type your username and password into the two fields and click Sign In to log in to your account.

Type the answer to the security question and click Continue to access the My Account page.

Step 2

Click the Manage My Subscriptions link in the Service Options section of the My Account page. Free accounts can be closed from the My Subscriptions page.

Step 3

Click the Cancel link to cancel your AOL account.

Step 4

Select a reason for cancelling the AOL account from the Please Select Your Reason... drop-down box.

Click the Cancel AOL button if you are certain you want to delete the account. The account is deactivated immediately. To abort, click the Keep My Plan link.

How to remove your AOL account

  1. Open the AOL cancellation page.

2. If necessary, log in to your account. If you are prompted for login information, enter your email address, click Next, enter your AOL password, and click Login.

3. Click Continue to delete my account. This red button is at the bottom of the page.

4. Enter your email address. Click the text box in the middle of the page, then enter your AOL account’s full email address.

5. Click the “Yes” button, close that account. This is the blue button at the bottom of the page.

6. Click the “Received” button when prompted. This means that your AOL account has been deleted from the AOL database and is in the process of being deleted. It may take several weeks for your AOL account to disappear from search results.

Creating an account without a phone number

An AOL account is an email account (a service you can use that ends in @aol.com). If you want to cancel your AOL email account, but you have services connected to that email address, you must create a new email account and update your email on all connected services. If you want to avoid a lot of spam, you can create additional mail using a virtual number. The main mail will registered to a real number. This mail will be only for important letters, and all spam will come to the additional mail. To get a virtual number, you need to go to a site that sells virtual numbers.For example, the site sms-man, there you can buy a number of more than 250 countries to register at more than 800 services, or you can get a number for free in the telegram channel.

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Service: AOL is a digital media company that, besides free content, messaging and email, offers paid service plans providing PC utilities, tech support, online learning, diet and fitness programs, online security and identity theft protection.

How To Cancel An Account: There are two levels of membership offered by AOL—free accounts and paid accounts. If you have a paid account, you must first convert to a free account, then cancel that.

Paid Account

1. Log in to AOL’s Billing page with the appropriate information.

2. Answer the account security question.

3. Click “Manage My Account.”

4. Under “Service Options,” click “Change My AOL Plan.”

5. Select the Internet connection type associated with the plan.

6. On the following page, scroll to the bottom and click “Cancel My Billing.”

7. On the confirmation page, select the reason for canceling then click “Cancel My Billing.”

AOL official page on closing a paid account.

Free Account

1. Log in to AOL’s My Account/billing page with the appropriate information.

2. You may need to answer the security question

3. Click "Manage My Subscriptions" located below the "Service Options" section on the page.

4. Click the orange “cancel” under the “AOL Products” section.

5. Select why you’re canceling from a drop-down list

6. Click the orange “CANCEL AOL” button and you’re done.

AOL official page on closing a free account.

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