How to Delete Your Airbnb Account (as a Guest or Host)

To delete your Airbnb account, sign in, open your account settings, go to the privacy section and choose the option to delete your account, then confirm. You’ll need to finish or cancel any upcoming reservations first, and if you host, deactivate your listings and make sure pending payouts have arrived. Download your data before you start. Reviews you’ve written may remain on listings after you leave, and Airbnb keeps some records for legal and safety reasons.

Airbnb is a trust platform. Your name, photo, reviews you’ve written and reviews others wrote about you are what hosts and guests judge you on. That makes leaving more involved than deleting a social media profile, especially for hosts with an active business. This guide covers the steps for both.

Deactivate or delete?

	Deactivate	Delete
Your profile and listings	Hidden	Removed permanently
Coming back	Possible by contacting Airbnb or signing in, depending on current rules	You’d start again with a new account and no review history
Review history	Kept for if you return	Lost to you
Best for	A pause in hosting or travel	Leaving for good, or privacy

For hosts in particular, review history takes time to build. If you might return, deactivating or simply snoozing listings keeps that history available. If you want to stop hosting but keep traveling, you can remove your listings and keep your guest account.

Before you delete: guests

1. Finish or cancel upcoming trips. Airbnb won’t normally let you delete an account with active reservations. Check the cancellation policy before canceling so you know what you’ll get back.
2. Resolve open issues. Close out any refund requests, damage claims or support cases first. You may need your account to respond.
3. Use or check credits. Travel credits and gift card balances are tied to your account and are typically lost on deletion.
4. Save receipts. If you claim business travel expenses, download receipts for past trips.
5. Download your data. Airbnb’s privacy settings let you request a copy of your personal data. Wait until the file arrives before deleting.

Before you delete: hosts

1. Honor or cancel future bookings. Canceling confirmed guests as a host can carry penalties under Airbnb’s host policies. Where possible, stop taking new bookings and let existing ones finish.
2. Deactivate your listings. Unlist or deactivate each listing so no new bookings come in.
3. Wait for final payouts. Make sure every payout from past stays has arrived in your bank account. Keep payout reports.
4. Download tax documents. Save earnings summaries and any tax forms Airbnb provides. You may need them well after the account is gone.
5. Remove co-hosts and connected tools. Take co-hosts off your listings and disconnect channel managers or pricing tools.
6. Save your reviews if you’ll host elsewhere. Screenshots of guest reviews can help you show your track record on another platform or on your own booking site. Present them honestly, as screenshots of past Airbnb reviews.

How to delete your Airbnb account

Airbnb updates its menus regularly, so these steps are deliberately general.

1. Sign in on the Airbnb website or app.
2. Open your account settings and go to the privacy section.
3. Look for the option to delete your account, and review the notice about what will happen.
4. Give a reason if asked and confirm.
5. Keep the confirmation email. If Airbnb needs to verify your identity, respond through the official app or website only.

If you can’t sign in, use Airbnb’s official account recovery. Scammers sometimes pose as Airbnb support in messages and search ads. Airbnb’s help center lists how to reach real support. Our guide to Airbnb scams covers the tricks aimed at guests and hosts.

What happens to reviews and listings

Reviews you wrote

Reviews you left for hosts are part of those hosts’ listings and help future guests. Airbnb’s privacy policy and help center explain how reviews are handled when a reviewer deletes their account, which can include keeping the review text visible without your full profile. If a particular review worries you, check whether you can still edit or remove it before you delete, and read Airbnb’s current policy.

Reviews you received

Reviews hosts wrote about you as a guest are attached to your profile, so they generally stop being visible when your profile is deleted. For hosts, reviews on your listings go when the listings and account are removed. Our guide to Airbnb host reviews explains how the review system works and what can be challenged under Airbnb’s review policy, which is often a better fix than leaving.

Copies elsewhere

Listing photos and descriptions are sometimes copied by scraper sites and short-term rental data services. Deleting your listing doesn’t remove those copies. If they include your home’s photos or address, contact the site and, where the photos are yours, consider a copyright takedown.

How to check your deletion worked

1. Open an old listing link in a private browser window. It should no longer show your listing.
2. Search Google for your listing title, your host name plus your town, and your address. If a result lingers after the page has changed, our guide to removing outdated content from Google explains how to request a refresh.
3. Check your email for anything from Airbnb after deletion, and treat unexpected messages asking you to log in as likely phishing.
4. Ask what’s retained. If you have a legal right to it, such as under the CCPA or GDPR, you can ask Airbnb what it still holds. Our guide on how to make a data subject access request explains how.

A worked example

This scenario is illustrative, not a real client. Leopold hosted a spare room for several years and is selling the house. His listing includes interior photos and a description that makes his street easy to identify, and it appears when people search his name.

1. He blocks new bookings and lets the last two stays finish.
2. He waits for the final payouts, then downloads his earnings summaries and his data file.
3. He deactivates the listing and removes a co-host.
4. He deletes the account through the privacy settings.
5. A month later, a rental data site still shows his listing photos. Because he took the photos, he sends a takedown request, and they’re removed.

Common mistakes

• Deleting with money still owed to you. Wait for every payout first.
• Canceling guests abruptly. Host cancellations can bring penalties and angry reviews on other platforms.
• Losing tax records. Download them before the account is gone.
• Deleting to escape one bad review. It also removes every good review. Replying well or reporting a review that breaks policy is usually the better route.
• Trusting “Airbnb support” in a search ad or text. Use the official help center only.

If a stay led to posts or reviews about you beyond Airbnb, our content removal service can assess which removal routes apply.

Frequently asked questions

Can I delete my Airbnb account with an upcoming reservation?

Usually not. Finish or cancel the reservation first, checking the cancellation policy, and then delete the account.

What happens to my reviews when I delete Airbnb?

Reviews about you are tied to your profile and generally disappear with it. Reviews you wrote about hosts may stay on their listings, as described in Airbnb’s current policy.

Can hosts delete their Airbnb account?

Yes, once listings are deactivated, future bookings are resolved and payouts are complete. Download tax documents and payout reports first.

Can I reopen a deleted Airbnb account?

Deletion is permanent. You could create a new account, but it would start without your old reviews or history. Deactivate instead if you might come back.