Delete your account

Last updated: October 15, 2026

You can delete your account and everything in it from inside the app. There is a 30-day grace period first, so a deletion made in a bad moment can be undone.

Read this part before anything else. Deleting your account does not cancel your Apple subscription. And your Apple subscription does not cancel your account either: it is still deleted on the date you are shown. Apple bills the subscription, so only Apple can stop it. Cancel it in your device's subscription settings first, or Apple keeps charging you after your account is gone.

How to do it in the app

Open the app, tap Profile at the bottom of the screen, and then tap the gear at the top right to open Settings. If you have a subscription, or the app cannot tell yet whether you do, you will see two choices, and the gentler one comes first: Cancel / pause my account, in the Subscription section at the top, keeps your account and your progress for whenever you come back. It does not stop the billing on its own: it sends you to Apple's subscription screen, which is where a subscription is cancelled, and Apple does not offer a pause for either plan. If you are not sure, that is the one most people actually want.

Delete my account is in the Your data section, near the bottom of Settings. The app will ask you to confirm, and then it will tell you the date the grace period ends. Deleting is permanent.

Playing as a guest, with no account? The same Your data section has Delete my data for you, and it works the same way: your request starts the same 30-day grace period, and you can cancel it from inside the app, the same way, before the 30 days are up. After that, the guest profile and its progress are removed from the device and from our servers.

The 30-day grace period

Your request is recorded, with the date it will take effect: 30 days later.
During those 30 days, until you call the deletion off, your units and Section Exams, Friends (your friends cannot see you) and your daily reminders are paused, and you cannot choose a new username. The Bible tab still opens. An active subscription keeps renewing with Apple until you cancel it there.
Signing in again during the grace period cancels the deletion. So does buying a subscription during the grace period, or restoring one that is still active, and so does tapping Keep my account, which the Your data section of Settings shows while a deletion is waiting. Any one of them calls it off, and your account carries on as though you had not asked.
After 30 days it is too late. The account cannot be restored and we cannot rebuild it for you.

What is deleted, and when

When	What happens
The day you ask	The request is recorded. Nothing is deleted yet. You can still change your mind.
Days 1–29	The grace period. Keep my account, signing in again, or buying or restoring a subscription cancels the request.
Day 30	The grace period closes. The app stops accepting anything new from your account.
Day 30, that night	A nightly job deletes the lot: your profile and all your learning progress, your account, your subscription state, every way of signing in that was on the account, the record of your Apple purchase, your billing periods, the messages Apple sent us about your subscription, your friends list, friend requests, blocks and reports, the sessions you wrote, and your sign-in itself. If you used Sign in with Apple, we ask Apple to revoke that permission as part of the same job.
Up to about day 38	The last backup copy expires. Supabase, which hosts our database, backs it up once a day and keeps each backup for 7 days on our current plan. A backup cannot be edited — only left to expire — so a backup taken shortly before the deletion that night can still hold a copy for up to 7 days more.

Deletion from the live service completes 30 days after you ask. The last backup copy expires up to about 38 days after you ask. We do not promise 30 days end to end, because that would not be true.

What is not deleted

Anonymous totals — how often a particular question is answered correctly across everybody, and how many requests for Bible text everybody made each day and month — stay. They have no person attached to them, nothing in them points back at you, and deleting your account does not change them. An anonymous record of the account’s payments also stays, for our financial records, including renewals Apple charges after the deletion: for each payment, the amount, the day, the plan and whether it was refunded, and a random code that keeps the payments made before the deletion together, but no name, account, device or contact details. The reading reports your device already sent to API.Bible are not ours to delete: they carry a random code, never your account, and deleting your account makes the app start a new code.

Copies that other companies already hold run on their own clocks, and deleting your account does not reach them: the usage events we sent PostHog stay with PostHog for up to 1 year, crash and error reports stay with Sentry for up to 30 days, and AppsFlyer's policy says it keeps what it received about your device for up to 24 months. Our other service providers keep their own logs and records on their own schedules too. The Privacy Policy says what each one holds and for how long.

If you cannot get into the app

E-mail support@yourbibleapp.com from the e-mail address on your account and ask us to delete it. If you sign in with Apple or Google, write from the e-mail address that sign-in uses. If you sign in with a phone number, write from any address and give that number. If you cannot do either, say so in the message and we will work out with you how to confirm the account is yours — we will not delete an account on the word of someone we cannot tie to it.

The same warning applies: ask Apple to cancel the subscription as well, or it keeps being billed.

Deleting is not the same as cancelling

	Cancel the subscription	Delete the account
Who does it	Apple, in your device's subscription settings	You, in the app
Billing	Stops at the end of the period you paid for	Does not stop. Cancel with Apple separately.
Your progress	Kept. Every unit stays free to play, with energy	Deleted after 30 days
Can you come back?	Yes, exactly where you left off	Only within the 30 days

What we keep and for how long is set out in full in the Privacy Policy.