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Delete your record

/settingsYour data. Export sits above delete on that screen, in that order, deliberately.

Delete your account

The whole record and the account behind it.

The flow is: Your dataExport everythingDelete account → type DELETE to confirm → signed out immediately, record gone.

There is no soft archive that the developer can read afterwards.

The server half is not deployed yet

The button, the confirmation and the call behind it are built and correct. The function that actually removes the account is not deployed, so pressing it today reports that deletion is not available rather than reporting a success that did not happen — and it points you at /delete-account, which is the documented route that works now.

That page is a frozen address referenced from the Play Store listing. It is the fallback precisely so there is never a moment when deletion is impossible.

Delete one area

Remove everything in Health, or in Memories, and keep the rest. It is in /settingsYour dataDelete a single domain.

  • It runs as one transaction. Every table commits together or none of them does — a half-deleted area with no record of where it stopped is worse than either outcome.
  • It tells you what went, table by table, with counts.
  • It writes a line to your account's own log, so the deletion is a thing that happened rather than an absence you notice later.
  • You have to type the wordsDELETE HEALTH, DELETE MEMORIES — and that check is made by the server, not by the dialog. A confirmation that only exists in the interface is a nicety; this is a boundary.

One cascade worth knowing about

Deleting People also removes the photo tags that say who is in a picture, because a tag points at a person who will no longer exist. Those rows are counted and reported rather than vanishing into an area you did not choose.

People and Sharing are deleted separately

Deleting People removes your people, your trees and your places, and it does not touch what you share. Deleting Sharing revokes every link, ends every connection and deletes every reply waiting for you, and your people stay exactly where they are. Clearing out a contact list should never quietly end what your doctor can read. See Sharing.

What deleting an area deliberately keeps

KeptWhy
NotificationsA delivery record spans every area. Deleting Health must not silently delete a notice about a share
Your AI provider keyAn account-level credential, not content in any area
Your Google Drive connectionA live credential and an external connection. Severing it is its own action, in settings
A Play purchase recordAccount-level. Deleting it would strand an entitlement you paid for
AI usage meteringAccount-level, and it is what a limit is counted from

Hiding is not deleting

Switching an area off keeps every row. Deleting an area keeps none. They are two controls in two places for exactly that reason.

What deletion does not reach

  • Files in your own Google Drive. LifeWell holds a reference; deleting your record removes the reference. The files are in your Drive, and they are yours to delete there. See Where your record lives.
  • Anything you sent somebody else. A message you sent sits in their conversation too.
  • Administrative audit lines about your account. A log an actor can erase is not a log; those lines outlive the account they describe, and they name an action rather than your record.