How to Delete Your Uber Account (Rides and Uber Eats)

To delete your Uber account, open the Uber app or Uber’s website, go to your account settings, and look for the privacy or account section, where Uber offers an option to delete your account. Cancel Uber One, settle any outstanding balance and download your data first. Deleting your Uber account also deletes your Uber Eats account, because they share the same login. Uber describes a period in which you can still restore the account by signing back in, and it keeps some data where the law or safety requires it.

This guide explains why your Uber data is worth deleting, the steps to take first, the deletion route and what stays behind.

Why deleting your Uber account matters for privacy

Ride-hailing accounts hold some of the most revealing data you share with any app:

• Ride history. Pickup and drop-off points, times and routes. Over years, that maps your home, workplace, doctor, gym, friends’ homes and anywhere else you go regularly.
• Saved places. “Home” and “Work” labels, plus any other favorites you set.
• Uber Eats orders and addresses. The same account holds what you order and where it’s delivered.
• Payment data. Cards, digital wallets, Uber Cash, business profiles and any linked employer billing.
• Contacts and trusted contacts. If you shared trip status or added trusted contacts, their details sit in your account too.
• Messages and ratings. Chats with drivers or couriers, and support conversations.

If someone gets into your account, or you share a device with someone you no longer trust, the ride history alone shows your movements. Deleting an account you don’t need removes that record from your side.

Before you delete

1. Cancel Uber One. If you pay for Uber One, cancel it in the membership settings first. If it’s billed through Apple, Google or a partner perk, cancel it there as well.
2. Clear any outstanding balance. Uber may not let you delete an account with an unpaid trip or order. Settle it or resolve the dispute with support first.
3. Use up Uber Cash and gift cards. Balances and credits are generally lost when the account is deleted.
4. Download your data. Uber’s privacy center lets you request a copy of your personal data, including trips and orders. Receipts are useful for expense reports, tax records or a dispute you might need to prove later.
5. Remove saved places and payment methods. Deleting “Home”, “Work” and saved cards is a sensible extra step while the deletion processes.
6. Check business and family profiles. Leave any Uber for Business profile set up by your employer, and remove yourself from family or shared payment profiles, so nobody else is billed or confused.
7. Driver or courier accounts are separate. If you drive or deliver with Uber, deleting a rider account isn’t the same as ending a driver or courier account. Check Uber’s driver help pages, and keep your earnings records for tax purposes.

How to delete your Uber account

Uber adjusts its menus regularly, so these steps are deliberately general.

1. Open the Uber app (or sign in on Uber’s website) and go to your account.
2. Open settings, then the privacy section, or the part of account management that covers your data.
3. Choose the option to delete your account. Uber may ask you to confirm your identity with a code sent to your phone or email, and to give a reason.
4. Read the confirmation screen, which explains what happens next, and confirm.

If you can’t find the option in the app, Uber’s help center and privacy center both describe how to request account deletion, and you can make the request there. Depending on where you live, state privacy laws such as California’s give you a legal right to ask a company to delete personal information, subject to exceptions.

What happens after you delete

• A restore window. Uber deactivates the account first and deletes it after a period. Signing back in during that time can restore it, so don’t open the app “just to check”. The confirmation message and Uber’s help pages give the current timeframe.
• Uber Eats goes too. The Eats account shares the same login and closes with it.
• Some data is kept. Uber’s privacy notice explains that it retains certain information after deletion where needed, for example for legal, tax, insurance, safety and fraud-prevention reasons, or to resolve open disputes. Ride-hailing companies commonly keep trip records connected to safety incidents or legal claims.
• Other parties keep their own records. Your card issuer’s statements, your employer’s expense system and a restaurant’s order records aren’t touched.

If you can’t get into your account

If you’ve lost the phone number or email on your Uber account, use the account recovery options in the app or Uber’s help center. You need to prove it’s your account before Uber will delete it, which protects you from someone deleting it maliciously.

If you see trips or orders you didn’t make, treat it as a compromise first: change your password, remove payment methods, report the charges to Uber and your card issuer, and check whether the same password is used elsewhere. Our guide on leaked passwords walks through that clean-up.

Where else your trip data lives

Closing the account ends Uber’s record from your side, but trip details often exist in other places you control:

• Emailed receipts. Uber typically emails a receipt after each trip and order, often with a map of the route. Search your inbox and delete receipts you don’t need.
• Phone and account location history. Google and Apple keep their own location records, depending on your settings. Review and delete that history separately.
• Shared trip links. If you shared your trip status with friends or family, those messages stay in the conversation.
• Expense and travel tools. Disconnect Uber from any expense, travel or budgeting app and check what those services keep.

If you’d rather keep the account

If you still need Uber occasionally, you can cut down what the account shows without deleting it:

• Remove saved places and type addresses manually.
• Set the app’s location permission to “while using the app”.
• Review trusted contacts and trip-sharing settings, and remove people you no longer want notified.
• Change your password, check which devices are signed in, and sign out of any you don’t recognize.
• Delete saved cards you don’t use and leave business profiles you no longer need.

That approach helps when the worry is another person seeing your account. If you want the data gone, deletion is the only full answer.

A worked example

This scenario is illustrative, not a real client. Hannah had used Uber for years, including trips to a clinic she’d rather keep private. After sharing a tablet with relatives, she realized her ride history was visible to anyone who opened the app.

1. She signed out of Uber on the shared tablet and changed her password.
2. She downloaded her data from Uber’s privacy center and saved a handful of work receipts.
3. She cancelled Uber One and spent her remaining Uber Cash on a final order.
4. She deleted the account through the privacy section of the app’s settings and didn’t sign back in during the restore window.
5. She switched to a ride-hailing app she only uses on her own phone, with no saved places.

Common mistakes

• Deleting the app, not the account. Uninstalling Uber leaves your ride history and payment details on the account.
• Signing back in during the restore window. That usually cancels the deletion.
• Forgetting the subscription. An Uber One membership billed through an app store may carry on charging if you don’t cancel it there.
• Losing records you need. Expense receipts and trip details for an insurance claim are gone once the account is.
• Overlooking other apps with your routes. If you use Lyft too, our guide to deleting a Lyft account covers the same steps there, and our DoorDash deletion guide covers delivery orders.

Deleting app accounts is one part of limiting how much of your life can be pieced together online. Our digital footprint cleanup guide covers the rest, and our personal reputation management team can help if personal details are already showing up in search results.

Frequently asked questions

Does deleting Uber delete Uber Eats?

Yes. Uber and Uber Eats share one account, so deleting it closes both. If you only want to stop using Eats, remove saved delivery addresses instead.

Can I get my Uber account back after deleting it?

Uber describes a period after you request deletion when signing back in restores the account. After that, deletion is permanent and you’d need to create a new account.

Can I delete my Uber account with money owed?

Usually not until the balance is settled or the dispute is resolved. Contact Uber support through the app or help center if you think a charge is wrong.

Does Uber delete all my ride history?

Not all of it. Uber’s privacy notice says it keeps some data after deletion for legal, safety, tax and fraud-prevention reasons. Your own access to the history ends when the account is deleted.