Account Deletion
Last updated: 17 May 2026
Plain-English summary. Sign out or uninstall the app to leave did:pic on your device. To wipe your data from our AppView cache, email [email protected] with your DID or handle. To delete your actual AT Protocol account, contact your PDS provider — they host the real data; we only cache the public parts.
You can leave did:pic at any time. Because did:pic is built on AT Protocol, there's a difference between deleting your did:pic experience and deleting your underlying atproto account.
Quick guide
| What you want | How |
|---|---|
| Stop using did:pic on this device | Sign out from the drawer menu, or uninstall the app |
| Forget my did:pic local data | Uninstall the app — local data lives only on your device |
| Stop receiving notifications | Sign out (we'll remove your push token) or turn off notifications in OS settings |
| Remove my account from did:pic's AppView cache | Email [email protected] with the subject "Delete my AppView data" and your DID or handle |
| Delete my actual atproto account | Contact your PDS provider (Bluesky / Blacksky / Eurosky / etc.) — they host the real data, we only cache the public parts |
What "delete my AppView data" actually does
When you email us, we'll:
- Remove all rows we hold for your DID — profile cache, posts, comments, likes, follows, follower graph, notifications, push tokens, labels.
- Stop indexing new public records from your DID via the firehose (we'll filter them out at ingest going forward).
What we can't do:
- Delete your records from your PDS — only your PDS provider can do that.
- Delete copies that other AppViews (Bluesky's main AppView, third-party ones) have cached. AT Protocol is a public-record network — your public posts can be cached by anyone with firehose access.
If you also delete your account at your PDS provider, your records vanish from the firehose. Other AppViews that respect deletes will then drop them too over time.
DIDs are permanent
Your DID (the long did:plc:... string that identifies you) is permanent at the protocol level — it's registered with the PLC directory. Even after account deletion, the DID itself exists. This is an AT Protocol design choice; we can't change it.
Response time
We aim to action verified deletion requests within 30 days, usually much sooner.
Contact
- Deletion requests: [email protected]
- Operator: Luke Cashion-Lozell, Queensland, Australia