Delete your BoringNews account
You can delete your BoringNews account, and everything we hold about you across every signed-in device, from inside the app — no email, no support ticket, no waiting on us.
How to delete from the app
- Open BoringNews.
- Open the Settings tab.
- Under Account, tap Delete Account.
- Confirm by tapping Delete everything.
The app removes everything in a single step. Once it finishes you'll be returned to the sign-in screen, as if you'd just installed BoringNews for the first time.
What gets deleted
On our backend (DynamoDB, region ap-southeast-2):
- Your user record — Apple User ID, name, email, internal user ID.
- All your feeds.
- All articles fetched for you, plus their classifications, read state, and saved state.
- Your reading preferences and daily digest schedule.
- All your registered Apple Push Notification tokens.
- All your active session tokens (signing you out of every device at once).
On your device:
- Cached articles, feeds, and read history (SwiftData).
- Your sign-in tokens and display name (Keychain).
- Reading preferences, digest settings, widget state, and image cache.
- Push registration — iOS will stop generating push tokens for BoringNews until you sign back in.
Once the cascade finishes, our database has nothing left that connects you to anything you ever read or saved.
What about other devices?
Deletion runs against your account, not just the device you tapped Delete on, so every signed-in device is covered: their session tokens are invalidated server-side and their next API call returns a 401 that signs them out automatically. Local data on those devices remains until they next launch the app or you delete it manually.
Story-deduplication tokens
We keep small anonymous tokens that prevent the same news story from triggering repeat push notifications across the feeds you read. These have a built-in 7-day expiry — once you delete your account and stop reading, they're gone within a week.
Can it be undone?
No. Deletion is immediate and irreversible. If you sign in to BoringNews again afterwards, you start over fresh — no feeds, no read history, no saved articles. You'll need to add feeds (or upload your OPML again) from scratch.
If the in-app option doesn't work
If the in-app deletion fails — typically because the device is offline or our server is briefly unavailable — try again on a stable connection. If you've lost the device or can't run the app for any other reason, you can email us via the support form with the subject "Delete my account" and the email address you signed in with. Unlike Stoic (whose backend stores nothing identifying), BoringNews's backend stores your email — so we can find your account and delete it on your behalf when needed.