How to Delete Your Life360 Account (Circles, Family and Safety)

To delete a Life360 account, open the Life360 app, go to settings, find your account or privacy section and choose the option to delete your account, or use Life360’s online privacy request route if you can’t use the app. Cancel any paid membership first through the app store or Life360, and hand over any circle you manage. If someone is tracking you through Life360 without your agreement, pause before deleting: plan for your safety first, because the other person may notice the change.

Life360 is different from most apps because it isn’t just your data. It shares your live location with a circle of other people, often family. That makes leaving a household decision as much as a technical one, and for some people a safety decision too.

If someone is tracking you without consent, start here

Location sharing is sometimes used to control a partner, ex-partner or family member. If that’s your situation, deleting the app might be the right move, but the timing matters.

• The other person may notice. If your location stops updating, you leave a circle or your account disappears, people in the circle may see it. In an abusive relationship, a sudden change can escalate things.
• Life360 may not be the only tracker. Shared phone plans, cloud accounts, family-sharing features, car apps and Bluetooth trackers can also reveal your location. Check those too, ideally with help.
• Keep evidence. Screenshots of the circle members, messages and any threats can matter later if you seek a protective order.
• Get support. Domestic violence advocates help people plan exactly this kind of step. Our help resources page lists where to start, and our guide to cyberstalking covers documenting and reporting tracking.

If you simply want more privacy from family, a calmer conversation is usually possible. The options below cover both.

Leave a circle, pause sharing, or delete?

Option	What happens	Good for
Pause or turn off location sharing	Your location stops updating for a circle; members may see that sharing is off	A short break, or sharing with some circles but not others
Leave a circle	You stop sharing with that group; your account stays	Leaving one group, such as an ex’s family circle, while keeping another
Delete your account	Your account and profile are removed; you leave every circle	Leaving Life360 entirely

Life360 changes feature names between versions, so look in the circle settings and location sharing controls for these options.

Before you delete

1. Cancel your membership. Deleting the account doesn’t necessarily cancel a paid plan. If you subscribed through Apple or Google, cancel in that app store’s subscription settings. If you paid Life360 directly, cancel with Life360. Check whether the plan covers other family members before you cancel.
2. Hand over circles you manage. If you’re the admin of a family circle, make someone else an admin first so the rest of the family can keep using it.
3. Tell the people who rely on you. A parent or partner who expects to see your location will worry if you vanish. A short message avoids a panicked call.
4. Deal with Tile and other devices. Life360 and Tile accounts can be connected. If you use Tile trackers or other linked devices, check what happens to them and whether you want to keep a separate Tile account.
5. Request a copy of your data if you want it. Life360’s privacy pages explain how to ask for the personal information it holds, including location history. Our guide to a data subject access request explains the wording.
6. Review location data sharing. Life360’s privacy settings have included options about how your data is used and shared for advertising and analytics. Opting out there is worth doing even if you’re deleting, in case deletion takes time to process.

How to delete your Life360 account

These steps describe where to look rather than exact menu names, because the app changes regularly.

1. Open Life360 and go to settings, usually from your profile or a gear icon.
2. Find your account section, or privacy and security.
3. Choose the option to delete your account and read what Life360 says will happen.
4. Confirm. Life360 may ask for a verification code or your password.
5. Uninstall the app afterward. Uninstalling alone does not delete the account.

If you can’t get into the app, for example because you lost the phone, Life360’s help center and privacy policy describe a web form or email route for account deletion and privacy requests. Use only Life360’s own site, not third-party “deletion services”.

Parents, teens and family circles

Life360 is often set up by parents for their children. That creates two common situations.

• A parent wants to delete a child’s account. Parents managing a young child’s account can typically delete it from the child’s device or ask Life360 through its privacy request route. Talk to your child first so they aren’t caught out.
• A teen or adult child wants to leave. Leaving without warning tends to cause alarm. A conversation about why, and an alternative such as sharing location only on trips, usually goes better.

Here is a message that keeps things calm.

Hi Mom, I’m going to stop using Life360 and delete my account this weekend. Nothing’s wrong, I just want to cut back on location apps. If I’m traveling or driving late I’ll text you when I arrive, and you can always call me.

For more on family technology rules, see our guide to parental controls.

What deleting Life360 removes, and what it doesn’t

What goes

• Your profile, circle memberships and live location sharing.
• Your saved places and personal settings in the app.

What may stay

• What others already saw. Circle members may have screenshots, notes or memories of where you were.
• Messages in circle chats. Depending on the feature, messages you sent may remain visible to others.
• Data Life360 keeps. Life360’s privacy policy explains what it retains after deletion, for example for legal, safety or fraud purposes, and whether deidentified data is kept. Read the current version.
• Location shared with partners before you opted out. Life360’s policies on sharing with third parties have changed over time. If this worries you, a privacy request asking what was shared, and with whom, is reasonable.
• Other location sources. Your phone’s own location history, Google or Apple family sharing, and car apps are separate. Our online privacy tips cover the common ones. Fitness apps can reveal your routes too; see how to delete a Strava account.

A worked example

This scenario is illustrative, not a real client. Danielle separated from her husband a few months ago. She’s still in the family Life360 circle he set up, and he has made comments about where she’s been.

1. Instead of deleting straight away, she contacts a domestic violence advocate listed on a help resources page and talks through the timing.
2. She screenshots the circle, his messages and the location comments, and emails them to a new account he doesn’t know about.
3. With the advocate, she checks her phone’s family-sharing settings and her car’s app, and removes his access to both.
4. On a day she’s somewhere safe, she leaves the circle and deletes her Life360 account, then cancels the membership she was paying for in the App Store.
5. She keeps the evidence in case she applies for a protective order later.

Common mistakes

• Uninstalling instead of deleting. The account, and sometimes your last known location, can remain.
• Leaving a family without an admin. Hand over the circle first.
• Forgetting the membership. App store subscriptions keep billing until you cancel them there.
• Rushing in a dangerous situation. Plan first, with support, so the change doesn’t put you at more risk.
• Assuming Life360 was the only tracker. Check other apps and devices too.

If your address or whereabouts have spread online beyond Life360, our personal reputation management service can help remove what platform rules allow.

Frequently asked questions

Will people in my circle know if I delete Life360?

They will likely notice that you’ve left the circle and your location no longer updates. If that could put you at risk, plan the timing with a domestic violence advocate before you delete.

Does deleting Life360 cancel my membership?

Don’t count on it. Cancel your paid plan first, through the Apple or Google app store if you subscribed there, or with Life360 if you paid it directly.

Can I delete my Life360 account without the app?

Yes, in most cases. Life360’s help center and privacy policy describe how to request account deletion if you can’t use the app. Use only Life360’s official site.

Does uninstalling Life360 stop location sharing?

Uninstalling stops new updates from that phone, but your account and circle membership remain. Leave the circle or delete the account to end it properly.