Leaving Pinterest
Delete Your Pinterest Account Without Losing Your Pins
When a Pinterest account is deleted, its boards and pins go with it, for good. Before you leave, save everything you want to keep to your own computer. It takes a few minutes to set up.
What happens when you delete a Pinterest account
- Your profile disappears right away, along with your boards and pins.
- You have 14 days to change your mind. Log back in during that time and Pinterest offers to bring the account back.
- After that, it's gone. The boards and pins can't be recovered, by you or by Pinterest support.
Pinterest also lets you request a copy of your account data. It's useful, but it's about your account, not a folder of your saved images ready to browse. Our Pinterest data export guide explains what's in it and what isn't.
Just need a break? Deactivate instead
Deactivating hides your profile and boards, but keeps them. Log back in whenever you like and everything is where you left it. If you're not sure you're leaving for good, deactivate first. You can still save your pins either way.
Save your pins before you delete
Download PinBoard for Mac, Windows or Linux and open it.
Click Sign in to Pinterest. It opens Pinterest's own sign-in page, and your password goes to Pinterest only. This is what lets PinBoard see your secret boards (Pro).
Paste your profile link to load every board at once, or paste each board link one at a time. See downloading a whole profile.
Each board lands in its own folder with its images, GIFs, videos and every slide of its carousels, at full size.
Check you've got everything
When a download finishes, PinBoard tells you if any pins couldn't be saved. Don't worry if Pinterest's pin count is a little higher than what you got: it also counts pins that were deleted or hidden by the people who made them, and those can't be downloaded by anyone.
Open the folder and click through a few boards. If a big board stopped early, load it again: PinBoard skips what you already have and picks up the rest. If it keeps stopping, set Speed to Slow in Settings.
Then delete your account
In Pinterest, open your settings, go to the account management section and choose to delete your account. Pinterest asks why you're leaving and sends an email to confirm. Once you confirm, the 14 days start.
Moving to a new account?
Your downloaded images can be pinned again from a new account by hand, from your computer. PinBoard only saves to your computer, it doesn't upload to Pinterest, so start with the boards you care about most.
Frequently Asked Questions
Keep your pins, wherever you go next
Save every board to your computer before you close your account.
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