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How to delete your account

Midnight Messenger is made by Devbyone. Here is how to delete your account, and what happens to each part of it.

Last updated: October 7, 2026

In short: in the app, open Settings and tap Delete account. Your username stops working at once and can never be used again, and the app erases your keys and chats from your phone.

How to delete it

  1. Open Settings. In the app, open Settings and tap Delete account. It is at the bottom, under Sign out.
  2. Confirm it is you. Confirm, then unlock with Face ID, your fingerprint, your phone passcode or your Midnight PIN.
  3. That's it. Your username stops working at once. Nobody can look it up, and it can never be used again, by you or anyone. The app then erases your keys and chats from the phone, as signing out does. Your 24 words won't bring the account back.
  • Update first. Delete account needs the latest beta version of the app. If you don't see the button, update the app.
  • No answer? If the app cannot confirm the deletion, it says so. Try again, and it finishes.
  • Signed in on another phone too? It signs itself out at its next start, after checking your signed request to delete.
  • No app any more? If you still have your 24 words, sign back in on any phone and delete from there.
  • No app and no 24 words? Then there is no way to prove the account is yours, so nobody can delete it, us included. The name just stays unused.
Need help? Ask on our Discord, in the #midnight-messenger channel. Sky, our AI assistant, will bring in a team member, Discord username one. Or send one a direct message. Or email support@devbyone.com. Never post your username, contact code or recovery phrase in public. Nobody needs your recovery phrase, ever. The team never messages anyone first. Anyone who does is not us.

What is deleted

  • Our directory, at once. Your entry is removed. Your username (we only ever kept it as a hash) stops working and drops out of lookups. Your "who can add me" setting and the hash of your contact code go with it.
  • On your phone. Your keys, your chats, your contacts, and your app lock data.
  • Alerts. Your phone's alert tickets at the relays.
  • Relays. Encrypted messages waiting for you expire within 7 days anyway. Relays never see message content.

What cannot be deleted

Your registration on the Midnight blockchain: a commitment (a fingerprint that reveals nothing about you) and the public key your device signs with. Like everything on a blockchain, it is permanent. It holds no name, phone number, email or message, and no name points to it any more.

To make sure your username and key are never used again, our directory keeps the hash of the deleted username, your public key and your signed request to delete, each with the date, and nothing else about you. The signed request lets your other phones check that the deletion really came from your account.

What the app never had

Your messages, your recovery phrase, your phone number, your email and your contacts. We never had them, so there is nothing to delete.

A chat backup file you saved is not on our servers either. It stays wherever you put it, so delete it there yourself if you no longer want it.