How to Close a Free AOL Account

Co-authored by Christopher Batchelor and Jack Lloyd

Last Updated: October 25, 2022 Tested

This wikiHow teaches you how to delete a free AOL account. Free AOL accounts don't require you to cancel any subscriptions or make any outstanding payments before closing. To close your account, you must use the AOL website—you can't close your account from the AOL mobile app.

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Go to the AOL account cancellation page. Log into your account if you haven't already.
Click Continue delete my account and enter your email address.
Choose Yes, terminate this account > Got it. Your account will have been deleted.

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Go to https://aol.mydashboard.oath.com/delete-my-account in your computer's web browser.
If prompted to enter your login information, type in your email address, click Next, enter your AOL password, and click Sign in.

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This red button is near the bottom of the page.
Click the text box in the middle of the page, then type in your full AOL account's email address.
It's a blue button at the bottom of the page.
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Click Got it when prompted. Doing so signifies that your AOL account has been removed from the AOL database and is in the process of being deleted.
- It may take a couple of weeks for your AOL account to disappear from search engine results.

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How can I close my AOL account but keep my email?

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An AOL account IS an email (a service you can use ending in @aol.com). If you want to cancel your AOL email but have services (credit cards, etc.) under that email, make a new one using Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc., and update your email on those services. However you will no longer have an AOL email if you close your AOL account.

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Will AOL deactivate a free account if the person did not ask for it?

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Yes, they will.

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Is there a way to delete an AOL account immediately? Mine is still receiving messages.

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It will continue receiving messages until AOL fully deletes it, so no. Simply don't sign into it anymore.

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