How to Delete A FaceBook Account on iPhone Temporarily or Permanently

Part 1. How to Deactivate Facebook Account on iPhone Temporarily

If you want to get rid of Facebook temporarily, you can easily deactivate your Facebook account on iPhone with steps below. Any time you want to come back, just activate your account by simply signing in to Facebook again.

What happens if you deactivate Facebook account on iPhone?

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Steps to Deactivate Facebook Account on iPhone

Part 2. How to Delete Facebook Account on iPhone Permanently

If you have made up your mind to delete Facebook account permanently on your iPhone, you can easily delete it with a straightforward method. But keep in mind that this action is irreversible once your Facebook account is deleted permanently. You have no way to access your account and all the data you have uploaded to Facebook before.

What happens if your Facebook account is deleted permanently?

Since you will lose access to all the Facebook data you have added after deleting Facebook account permanently, you are recommended to back up important Facebook messages, photos, videos and more in advance. You can use FoneLab iOS Data Backup & Restore to do the job. It's the best choice to help you selectively back up and restore iPhone/iPad/iPod data (iOS 17 Supported).

Check the detailed steps below to back up important Facebook data.

After you have backed up important Facebook data, you can follow the steps below to delete Facebook account on your iPhone permanently.

Steps to delete Facebook account in iPhone permanently

Please note that you can still cancel the deletion within 30 days if you changed your mind. After 30 days, your Facebook account and all the information will be deleted permanently.

It takes up to 90 days for Facebook from the beginning of the deletion process to delete all the things you've posted. When all the information is deleted, other people using Facebook will no loner have access to your Facebook information. But Facebook will keep all of your information in backup storage in case any event of a disaster, software error, or other data loss event, or for things like legal issues, terms violations, or harm prevention efforts.

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Part 3. How to Erase Facebook Data Fragments

After you delete Facebook Account permanently and uninstall this app on your iPhone, there will still be Facebook data fragments that stay in your iPhone, which contains your private information. What's more, those invisible data fragments will keep eating up your storage space. Nowadyas, there are professional data recovery tools in the market that is able to recover deleted Facebook messages. So you'd better to erase the Facebook data fragments thoroughly if you want to protect your privacy and free up your iPhone storage. Aiseesoft FoneEraser is an iOS data erasing tool that can help you erase such kind of data fragments quickly and safely. This powerful utility is able to erase iPhone content and settings permanently and thoroughly, three erasing levels are provided to erase your private data completely in order to protect your privacy.

Steps to erase Facebook data fragments permanently

After you uninstall Facebook app from your iPhone, please follow the steps below to erase the Facebook data fragments as soon as possible.

Wait for a while and all the Facebook data fragments will be deleted from your iPhone permanently.

Conclusion

In this article we have shared how to deactivate Facebook account temporarily or delete Facebook account on iPhone permanently. You will also know the difference between deleting a Facebook account temporarily and permanently. Moreover, it's necessary to make a backup of important Facebook data before you delete the account permanently and erase Facebook data fragments after deleting the account permanently on iPhone.