How to remove a second facebook account

By James Wright

Updated September 13, 2017

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If you have two Facebook accounts, you can close one without affecting the other by either deleting or deactivating just one account. Closing the account may affect the Pages you manage, however, if the account is the page's only administrator. Before attempting to close any of your accounts, take some precautions to make sure your Pages and data are safe even after your account is gone.

Deactivating an Account

Log in to the account you want to deactivate. Click the dropdown menu icon in the Facebook menu bar, then click "Settings."

Click the "General" tab, then click the "Deactivate Your Account" button.

Enter your password and click "Continue."

Select your reason for leaving, choose to opt out of any future emails if you so desire, and then click "Deactivate." Click "Deactivate Now" to complete the deactivation. You will be redirected to Facebook's main login page when it is all done. To reactivate, all you need to do is type in your email address and password like you're logging in normally and your account will be restored.

Permanently Deleting An Account

Log in to the Facebook account you want to delete completely, and then access your Account Settings to download a copy of your Facebook data. This isn't necessary to delete your account, but since the deletion is permanent, downloading an archive of your data first is recommended.

Access the account deletion form via Facebook's Help section, or from the link in the Resources section of this article. The form is simply an explanation of what the permanent account deletion does, and will only ask you to confirm or cancel your deletion request.

Select "Delete My Account" to start the deletion process. Provide your password, then enter the CAPTCHA characters displayed to confirm. You will then be displayed a warning that your account will be deleted within 14 days.

Tips

If you change your mind about permanently deleting your account, simply log in to Facebook with your email address and password at any time within the 14-day period. If you miss this window, however, your account will be gone for good.

Warnings

If you are the only administrator of a Page, this Page will be deleted or unpublished when you delete or deactivate your account. If you want to keep the Page, be sure to designate another administrator before doing so; full administrative powers will automatically transfer to the new administrator upon deletion.

I have an ipad, running the latest version of the facebook app.

When I go to log out of my account, from the facebook app itself, I see someone else's account as an option to log into as well as my own. I do not know the password of this account. I cannot see any option to remove this account, no cross or edit button.

Nothing from the settings app has helped. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling facebook.

Please will someone provide me with instructions as to how I remove this account.

Thank you.

you should never had 2 facebook acounts,, you simply don't respect the rules,,and second this is a Mac Forum, you really should ask for help on facebook support,,

A wholly unhelpful answer. You'll notice that this question was posted in the iPad section.

If someone ever logged into a Facebook account on your device before there would be such suggestions...
probably the only solution is to "erase everything" and restore from backup to remove that unknown Facebook account.

Other than simply erasing everything there must surely be a solution that allows me to remove the option to login to this account?

Other than simply erasing everything there must surely be a solution that allows me to remove the option to login to this account?

Such info is often stored in a file on iOS file system that is not accessible without jailbreak. Given how "removing app" on Mac OS X works, iOS would not delete everything coming along with an app if that app is deleted from device.
A clean wipe could maximize the chance such file will surely be removed.
BTW, I saw a similar phantom on one local bank app, which instructing me to add a credit card I have no idea about. That "card" is gone after erasing everything.

So we are in agreement that there is a bug that basically means that the account is entirely stubborn and unless facebook updates the app, this is normal behaviour?