How To Delete Truecaller Account? – Truecaller is a popular app that gives you the contact information of unknown numbers calling you. It gets contact details from the address books of all its users.
Therefore, even if you have never used the service, your name and number may be on Truecaller’s database, thanks to someone else who saved your contact details and allowed the application to access them.
Not everyone knows this, but for some fixed-line phones, the Truecaller also lists the landline’s address. This does not mean when calls or spammers call from an office address, but ideally, you would not want strangers to know your home address because you called them from your landline.
Of course, Truecaller sources use this information from public data sources. This is because if someone knows your landline number, they can easily find the registered address through any publicly available phonebook (in many telescopes this information is public) or even just Google By searching for your landline number.
For this reason, you should consider deleting your number from Truecaller’s database. Note that you cannot remove your number from the service if you are using the app. To remove your number, you must deactivate your account.
If you were only hoping to delete your number, then after seeing the contact details of all the other people who called, you are out of luck.
If you are ready to delete the Truecaller account once and for all, here’s what you need to do. If you are using the app on iPhone, Android, or Windows Mobile, here we explain How To Delete Truecaller Account Permanently.
How To Delete Truecaller Account?
1. Open the Truecaller app on your mobile phone and navigate to Settings. At the bottom, you will see the Privacy Center, tap on it.
2. Now, select Deactivate. It will require a re-confirmation, tap on Yes.
Note: Now your Truecaller account is deactivated, but users can, however, search your phone number and find information about you.
So you are required to do one more step: unlist your phone number from Truecaller’s database. To do so, follow the following steps.
Unlist your number from Truecaller
As noted, even if you deactivate your Truecaller account, users can still pull your details by searching for your number.
Therefore, you can follow the following steps below to unlist your phone number from Truecaller’s database permanently.
1. Visit https://www.truecaller.com/unlisting (Truecaller’s unlisting page) on any browser.
2. Enter your country code, served by your phone number, and validate the captcha.
3. Now, tap on Unlist Phone Number. Again, a confirmation pop-up will appear. Simply tap on Unlist to proceed.
That’s it; your phone number will now be permanently excluded from the Truecallers database and from now, it will neither be shown to others while calling nor be displayed in user searches.
Although, it can still take up to 24 hours for your mobile number to disappear totally from search results.
Wrapping Up
So this was all about how to remove your phone number from Truecaller. By following the above method, your data will be completely erased from the database, yet we recommend asking your friends to check it periodically.
Anyway, make sure not to register on Truecaller again using the same number. That being said, what method are you going to follow?
Are you permanently deleting your account or plan to use it with a vague name? Let us know in the comments below. Also, feel free to contact us in case of any doubt or questions.
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