If you use WhatsApp, Facebook’s incredibly popular messaging app, you may have encountered news about their ever-changing privacy policy. While the service seems to be constantly moving from more secure to less secure and coming back again, you may feel it’s time to pack up and find a new platform to chat with your friends.
If you choose to remove yourself from WhatsApp, here’s what you’ll want to do:
To export the messages, tap the chat you want to save. Tap the chat name at the top and scroll down to “Export Chat,” then choose whether or not to include the chat media with it.
Then request your account details by going to “Settings” in the lower right corner. Then choose “Account” and “Request account information.” It will take about three days to receive the data report from WhatsApp, but they will notify you when it is ready.
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Finally, to delete your account, go to “Settings”, then “Account” and “Delete my account”. This will clear your message history, remove you from all groups, and delete your backup. Now you are free and safe from WhatsApp and you just have to convince your friends and family to migrate to another application.