How to Delete Email Accounts on iPhone

This wikiHow teaches you how to delete email accounts on iPhone. After you delete an email account, all Contacts, Mail, Notes, and Calendar information that were synced between the account and iPhone will also be deleted.

Table of Contents

Steps

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Open the Settings app

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(Settings) on iPhone. Click the Settings app with the gear icon in the gray frame.

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Scroll down and tap Accounts & Passwords . This option is located near the middle of the Settings page.

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Select account. Under “ACCOUNTS” (Accounts), tap the account (such as Gmail ) that you want to remove from iPhone.

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Scroll down and tap Delete Account . This red button is at the bottom of the page.

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Click Delete Account when the option appears. The email account will be deleted from iPhone immediately along with any associated data.

Advice

If you just want to delete an email account from your iPhone’s Mail app, you can tap the green “Mail” switch in the middle of the account page to disable the account.

Warning

Any contacts, notes, emails, and appointments synced from the email account will also be immediately deleted from iPhone.

Steps

Advice

Warning

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