Delete your account

In the app

1. Open Watch Heart and go to Settings.
2. Under Account, tap your email address.
3. Tap Delete account, then Delete my account.

It happens at once and can’t be undone.

By email

If you can’t open the app, write from the email address you signed up with to inigo@tosstheworld.org with the subject “Delete my Watch Heart account”. I’ll delete it within 30 days, usually much sooner, and reply when it’s done.

What is deleted

• Your email address and password.
• Every diary entry and watchlist item synced to your account: titles, dates, ratings, reviews, tags and notes.
• Your lists.
• Your profile: name, bio, photo, favourites and yearly goal.
• Your friendships and invite code. Friends stop seeing anything of yours at once.

Nothing is kept afterwards.

What stays

The diary on your phone stays there, so you can keep using Watch Heart without an account. To remove it too, uninstall the app. Story images you shared or saved stay wherever you put them.

Delete some of your data, and keep your account

You can delete parts of what’s synced without deleting your account. Each change reaches the cloud the next time Watch Heart syncs.

• A diary entry: open it and tap Move to trash. Then in Settings, open Trash and tap Delete forever, or Empty trash for all of them. Entries left in Trash are deleted for good after 30 days.
• A watchlist title: take it off your watchlist.
• A list: open it and choose Delete list. The titles stay in your diary.
• Your profile: on your profile, clear your name or bio, and hold a favourite to remove it.
• What friends see: in Settings, under Friends, turn off your diary, reviews or lists, or unfriend someone.

To ask for anything else to be deleted, write to inigo@tosstheworld.org from the email address you signed up with, and say what you’d like removed. I’ll do it within 30 days.

Before you go

To keep a copy, export it first. In Settings, under Your data: Export backup, Export as spreadsheet, or Export films for Letterboxd.