How do I get my personal info and my Apple id removed from Apple. I forgot my password so asked for an account recovery which will take 24 days. I would like it deleted now. Is that not against the right to protect my information? I really don’t like having all that information out there.
Apple will not process the deletion of an AppleID that you don’t have access to and control of. They are required to ensure that the AppleID you are trying to delete is in fact yours. And the way you prove that to them is by being able to sign into that AppleID. Once signed in, you can access to the deletion request form and process. But if you cannot sign in, then you cannot delete an AppleID as you have no proof it is yours to have deleted. If it is yours, you either can sign into it, or you can recover it using account recovery. If you cannot do either of those things, then Apple has no proof that AppleID is yours to delete.
So you will have to recover that AppleID if you wish to delete it.
Apple will not process the deletion of an AppleID that you don’t have access to and control of. They are required to ensure that the AppleID you are trying to delete is in fact yours. And the way you prove that to them is by being able to sign into that AppleID. Once signed in, you can access to the deletion request form and process. But if you cannot sign in, then you cannot delete an AppleID as you have no proof it is yours to have deleted. If it is yours, you either can sign into it, or you can recover it using account recovery. If you cannot do either of those things, then Apple has no proof that AppleID is yours to delete.
So you will have to recover that AppleID if you wish to delete it.
I have no idea what they do with long term idle AppleIDs. I don’t work for Apple so cannot say what they do.
But as with any company who you have an online account with, if you cannot prove a login ID and account belongs to you, no company will delete the account based solely on your request that they do so. You have to be able to convince any company the login ID and account are yours, and the standard for doing that is that you can login to your own account.
Apple offers an account recovery process for people to recover their AppleIDs. With iOS 14 you can also choose instead to set a 28-digit recovery key instead. As long as you have or remember that key, you can always recover your AppleID.
But until you recover access to it and control of it, Apple won’t do anything with it since you have no proof it’s your account. If it is your account, you’d either be able to login, or recover it.
You do indeed have the right to delete your AppleID. But you do that by showing you’re able to login to your own account, and request the deletion once logged in. You cannot just ask Apple to delete any old AppleID that you cannot login into or at least successfully recover.
If you are in Account Recovery, all you can do is wait. The only way to bypass the recovery process is to remember your password and sign into your Apple ID.
If you forgot the Apple ID (iCloud) password, enter the Apple (iCloud) ID, and click Forgot Password. See if you can get a Rescue or Notification email option if necessary. Link to contact Apple Support at the end of the 2nd article.
I don’t want anything to do with Apple and want my information removed. All of it. There must be something in the right to privacy laws that can make them delete my info, is there not? Don’t know what difference it makes to Apple because if I knew my password my account would be deleted by now.
So what does Apple do with all the info they have that nobody can access. I don’t think I’m the only one who has forgotten their password. Is there a time limit? Say if someone hasn’t accessed their Apple ID in 10 years do they automatically delete that id?
I want to reset my password
Delete my id with Apple but don’t know my password. Tried to reset my password but have to wait 24 days. I want my personal data and everything associated with Apple removed. How do I do this?
