Things You Should Know

• If you delete your Microsoft account, you will lose everything associated with the account.
• You have a grace period of 60 days to reactivate your account, but you can't retrieve deleted data.

If you're sure you want to close your Microsoft account, follow these steps:

• Learn more about the things you should check first.
• Go through the process for how to close your account.

When you close a Microsoft account, for whatever reason, Microsoft wants to make sure of two things:

• That it's really you, not someone else trying to close your account.