Deleting an email account on the iPhone or iPad is quite common. Whether you use the iOS Mail app or other popular apps. Deleting an email account on an iPhone with iOS 12, 13 or 14 is done in the same way, and perhaps it is more difficult than it seems. That is why we are going to tell you the steps you must follow to delete a mailbox on the iPhone.

How to delete Gmail, Outlook or Hotmail account from your iPhone with iOS 12, iOS 13 or iOS 14.

First of all, you should know that there are two ways to stop receiving emails from a specific account if you use the iPhone app.

We can directly delete the mailbox, or we can deactivate the account. First, we are going to tell you how to deactivate it and then how to eliminate it.

Deactivating an email account is something temporary that we may want to do for a while, for example on vacation. Follow these steps:

• On your iPhone or iPad go to Settings.
• If you have iOS 14 enter Mail and then Accounts.
• If you have iOS 13 or iOS 12 go to Accounts and passwords.
• Enter the account you want to deactivate.
• Tap the Mail switch.
• You can reactivate it at any time.

If what you want is to permanently delete an email account from the iPhone or iPad so that you don’t use it again, follow these steps:

• On your iPhone or iPad go to Settings.
• If you have iOS 14 enter Mail and then Accounts.
• If you have iOS 13 or iOS 12 go to Accounts and passwords.
• Enter the account you want to delete completely.
• At the bottom, tap on Delete account.
• Confirm the operation by clicking on Delete from iPhone.

How to delete the account according to the mail service

Delete an account from the Gmail app on your iPhone

If you use the Gmail application on your iPhone and you want to delete an email account, it is compatible with the most important ones, these are the steps you must follow.

• At the top right click on the circle with your photo.
• Now tap on Manage the accounts of this device.
• All the email accounts associated with the Gmail app will appear.
• Tap Remove from this device.

Delete an account from the Outlook app on your iPhone

The Outlook application is ideal for managing Hotmail, Exchange and Outlook email accounts, this must be done to delete one of these email accounts:

• In the top left click on your photo.
• At the bottom left you will see a settings icon, tap on it.
• Click on the email account you want to delete.
• At the bottom click on Delete account.

This is how you can easily manage all the email accounts that you have on your iPhone or iPad, regardless of whether you use the native Mail app on iOS or the most popular mail manager applications.