How to Delete Your VSCO Account (and Cancel Membership First)

To delete your VSCO account, sign in to your VSCO account settings, usually most reliably in a web browser, and look for the option to delete your account. Save any photos and edits you want to keep first, and cancel a paid membership through the store you bought it from, because deleting the account doesn’t necessarily stop the subscription. Deletion removes your profile and gallery from VSCO, but not copies others saved or reposted.

VSCO is often a quieter corner of the internet than Instagram, but profiles are public by default and images can show up in search results. If you’re leaving for privacy reasons, the steps below cover both the account and the traces around it.

Delete, or make your profile less visible?

Before deleting, consider whether a smaller change will do.

Option	What it does	Good for
Remove selected images	Takes specific photos off your public profile	A few old or revealing posts
Keep photos in your private Studio	Keeps edits in the app without publishing them	Using VSCO as an editor only
Change your username and display name	Stops your profile being found by your real name	Staying but reducing discoverability
Delete the account	Removes your profile, gallery and account	Leaving VSCO for good

If you mainly use VSCO as a photo editor and never meant your gallery to be public, removing published images may give you most of the privacy benefit while keeping your presets and edits.

Before you delete

1. Back up your photos and edits. Export the images you care about from your Studio to your device or cloud storage, in full resolution. Edited versions are only saved if you export them, so don’t assume the originals on your camera roll include your edits.
2. Request your data if you want a full copy. VSCO’s privacy policy describes how to request a copy of your personal data. If you want a record of your account beyond your photos, request it before deletion.
3. Cancel your membership where you bought it. If you subscribed through the Apple App Store or Google Play, cancel in that store’s subscription settings. If you subscribed on VSCO’s website, cancel there. Deleting the app or the account is not the same as canceling a subscription.
4. Check for other VSCO accounts. Old accounts made with a school email or a different phone number are easy to forget. Sign in to each one you can find.
5. Screenshot evidence if needed. If someone has harassed you through VSCO messages or reposts, save evidence before you leave. Our help resources page lists places to report abuse.

How to delete your VSCO account

VSCO updates its apps and website regularly, so these steps are general. Its help center has the current route.

1. Sign in to your VSCO account, preferably on the VSCO website in a browser, where account settings are usually easiest to find.
2. Open your account or privacy settings.
3. Look for the option to delete your account and follow the prompts. You may need to confirm your email, password or a code.
4. Confirm the deletion and keep any confirmation email.

If you can’t find the option or can’t sign in, use VSCO’s official help center to contact support. Only use contact routes on VSCO’s own site, and never give your password to anyone offering to delete the account for you.

What deleting VSCO removes, and what it doesn’t

What goes

• Your public profile and published images.
• Your Studio, including edits you haven’t exported.
• Your username, which may become available to someone else later.

What stays

• Reposts and saves. Images other people reposted or downloaded are outside your control once they’ve copied them.
• Your photos on other apps. If you shared VSCO edits to Instagram, TikTok or elsewhere, those posts stay until you delete them on each platform. Our guide on how to delete old social media posts covers the main apps.
• Search results. Search engines may show your old profile or images for a while. Results usually drop out once the pages are gone. Our guide on how to remove images from Google explains the options for images that linger.
• Data VSCO retains. Like most companies, VSCO may keep some information for a period for legal, security or backup reasons. Its privacy policy describes this.

Handling copies of your photos

If someone reposted your photo to another platform, start with a polite message asking them to remove it. If a copy breaks that platform’s rules, for example it’s an intimate image, it’s used to harass you, or it’s someone pretending to be you, report it on that platform.

Because you took the photo, you usually own the copyright in it. If someone reuses your original work without permission, a copyright takedown may be an option. Our guide to filing a DMCA takedown notice explains when that’s appropriate and when it isn’t. Only file one for images you genuinely own.

To find copies, a reverse image search on your best-known photos can turn up reposts on sites you didn’t know about.

If you can’t sign in to VSCO

You’ll need access to the account to delete it. Start with VSCO’s own sign-in help: the password reset or sign-in link sent to your email, or the code sent to your phone number if that’s how you registered.

• Old email address. If the account is tied to an email you no longer use, such as a school address, try recovering that email first. Many schools and providers have a process for former students or users.
• Old phone number. If you signed up with a number you’ve since given up, a code sent to it won’t reach you. Contact VSCO support through its help center and explain the situation.
• Someone else has taken over the account. Change the password on your email first, then use VSCO’s recovery routes. If the account is posting as you, report it as impersonation. Our guide to online impersonation covers the wider steps.

Be wary of anyone who offers to recover or delete a VSCO account for a fee. Only VSCO can do that, and handing over your details to a stranger usually makes things worse.

Parents and younger users

Many VSCO accounts were created by teenagers. If you’re a parent helping a child leave VSCO, sit down together and export the photos they want to keep before deleting, since losing years of edits can feel like a big deal to them. If the reason for leaving is unwanted contact or reposted images, save the usernames and links involved and report them. If any image is sexual and involves a minor, don’t save or share it: report the link to the platform and to NCMEC’s Take It Down service, and see our help resources page for support.

A worked example

This scenario is illustrative, not a real client. Wren used VSCO heavily in high school and is now applying for nursing programs. Her old gallery is public and appears when someone searches her full name.

1. She exports around a dozen edited photos she wants to keep, plus her favorite presets as screenshots so she can recreate them.
2. She checks her phone’s subscription settings and finds an old VSCO membership still renewing through the App Store. She cancels it there.
3. She signs in on the VSCO website and deletes the account.
4. She runs a reverse image search on two of her most-viewed photos and finds one reposted on a fan page. She messages the owner, who removes it.
5. A few weeks later, she searches her name again. The VSCO profile no longer appears.

Common mistakes

• Assuming your camera roll has your edits. Export edited versions first.
• Forgetting the subscription. Cancel through the store you paid with.
• Deleting only the app. Your profile stays public until you delete the account.
• Missing old accounts. Check any email addresses you’ve used.
• Ignoring copies on other platforms. Deleting VSCO doesn’t touch your Instagram or TikTok posts.

If old photos keep surfacing under your name across several sites, a full digital footprint cleanup is the next step, and our content removal service can help where platform rules allow removal.

Frequently asked questions

Can I delete my VSCO account in the app?

VSCO has offered account deletion in different places over time. The website’s account settings are usually the most reliable route. Check VSCO’s help center for the current steps.

Does deleting VSCO cancel my membership?

Not necessarily. If you paid through the App Store or Google Play, cancel in that store’s subscription settings. Otherwise you may keep being billed.

Can I recover a deleted VSCO account?

Plan on no. Treat deletion as permanent, and export your photos and edits before you start.

Will my VSCO photos disappear from Google?

Usually, once search engines recrawl the deleted pages. Copies someone reposted elsewhere are separate and need to be dealt with on those sites.