Zoom is a platform used as an alternative to others to make video calls, but what few people know is how to delete the Zoom account .
Zoom, that world-renowned platform for videoconferencing in companies and that, due to confinement by the coronavirus, has seen its popularity grow at an almost overwhelming rate.
The same platform that cybercriminals have used to steal credentials . Either for this reason, which has already been solved, or because we no longer want to use Zoom, we are going to do a short tutorial to know how to delete our Zoom account.
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Zoom is an alternative to Teams , Skype, Google Duo, WhatsApp , Instagram , Houseparty , etc. and as such, unsubscribe or delete the account is not a simple process, since what the company seeks is to retain the user for as long as possible to try all the benefits and never leave.
To delete our Zoom account, we recommend doing it from the PC browser , for greater convenience:
- We log in and click on “My Account” that appears in the upper right corner of the web.
- Now we focus our attention on the left side menu and click on “Account Management”.
- 2 options open and we choose “Account Profile” . Here we see information about our account, and most importantly, the option to delete the Zoom account.
- By clicking on “Terminate my account” , it takes us to the confirmation of the action. That is, a dialog box pops up asking us if we really want to delete our Zoom account or not. Click on “Yes”.
- They return us to the start and we are no longer registered or anything because our account has been deleted, but there are still important steps to remove all traces of Zoom from our PC and computer.
Delete Zoom from our PC
As we know, to use Zoom we had to download the app on our computer, so now we have to delete the app and the download file.
- In the Windows 10 search bar, we type “Add or Remove” (without the quotes), and what we see in the following screenshot should appear. We can also search for “Settings” and we save a step.
- Click on that option that we highlight in yellow and the Windows 10 configuration menu opens .
- We scroll and look for Zoom . We click on it and a menu opens with the option “Uninstall”. We click on it and then again on “Uninstall” , and it would be out of our team.
- Now we get a dialog box that says “Do you want to allow this application to make changes to the computer? Click on Yes.
- Next, we go back to the Windows 10 search bar and search for “Zoominstaller” . We should not click on the ZoomInstaller.exe file because it will be installed again, and we will have to repeat the whole process again.
- We must click where it says “Open file location” .
- Once we click there, it takes us to the downloads folder and we simply have to right-click on the file and delete.
- Now it’s time to empty the recycle bin. To do this, we right-click on it and click on the “Empty recycle bin” option .
Remove Zoom from our mobile
All you have to do is uninstall the mobile application by pressing for a few seconds on it and choosing the uninstall / delete option.
We would not have to do anything else, if we also have Zoom on the tablet, as we would have to remove the app from that device.
And in this way, we would have eliminated our Zoom account from all the sites where we have installed this video calling platform.
