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Pausing or deleting your account

Updated 2026-08-21 · Applies to: iPhoneAndroid

The difference between stepping away and leaving for good — and how to change your mind.

Pausing or deleting your account

These are very different things, and only one of them is reversible. Both live in Settings → Account.

Pausing

Pausing hides your profile and videos from everyone, and takes you out of Pulse, search and Scenes. Nothing is deleted: your videos, Echoes, followers and messages all wait exactly as they are. Sign in again and switch it off to come back.

Deleting

Deleting removes your account. Your profile and videos leave Tubaar immediately and you're signed out.

There's a grace period before anything is erased: sign back in during that window and the deletion is cancelled, with everything intact. After it passes, your data is removed and it cannot be recovered — support can't undo it, because by then there's nothing left to restore.

The exact timeline is on the delete-account page, which is also where you can start a deletion from the web if you can't get into the app.

One identity, two apps

Your account is shared with Ontryst. Deleting deletes both — there is one account. If you only want to stop using Tubaar, pause instead, or simply stop opening it; nothing is removed for being inactive until an account has been dormant for a very long time, and you'll be told first.

Echoes of your videos

Deleting your video removes it from every chain it started or joined. Echoes other people made of it stay up on their profiles, showing original removed.

If it's about one person

You don't have to leave. Blocking and reporting are covered in Following and messaging and Privacy and visibility.

If this didn't help, tell support

If you can't get into your account to delete it, use the form on the delete-account page or email support@tubaar.com from the address on the account, telling us the phone number it uses.