You can remove an email account in the Outlook app if you do not want to use it. You can follow this step-by-step guide to delete an email account from the new Outlook app. You can also remove the account from the Calendar app.
If you have accidentally added an email account to your Windows PC or do not want to use your added email ID, you can delete it from your PC and the Outlook app. This will help you make your Outlook app less cluttered. To the Outlook app, you can add almost any email account, including Outlook.com, Office 365, Google account, Yahoo, iCloud, etc., to turn on synchronization.
How to remove an email account from the Outlook app in Windows
- Open the new free Outlook app on your Windows PC.
- Click the settings gear icon on the top.
- In the Settings window, click the Manage button next to the account you want to delete or remove.
- You should see the Account settings window, where you must click the Remove button.
Another method opens the Account settings window in the Outlook app. Right-click on the email ID in the Outlook app and select the Account settings option.
After that, you should see a confirmation window where you need to click the Remove button. Once the process is completed, it should show a success message.
If you follow all these steps, your email account will be deleted from your computer alongside all synchronized content. You can remove all your email accounts using the same steps, no matter how many you have added to the Outlook app.
How do I delete all email accounts from the Outlook app?
An easy way is to remove the Outlook app from Windows, which will remove all the accounts. Right-click on the Outlook app listing in the Search or All apps list, and choose to uninstall.
When you remove the email account from the Outlook app, will it be deleted?
No. The new free Outlook app is only a client, i.e., it syncs with your online account, and since it can manage multiple email accounts, it becomes easy to manage. However, when you delete an account from the Outlook app, it only deletes the local storage data and credentials.
