Permanently Delete a KIK Account?
If you decide to reactivate your Kik profile after deactivating it, just sign back in as usual. You’ll need your password to do so. If you want to reset it but don’t have access to your email account, you can do so as long as you know the email address associated with it. Enter the email address linked with
Users of Kik and similar services such as Whatsapp can communicate securely over the internet. Kik does not keep track of the content or phone numbers of its users, making it difficult for cops to discover identifying information in child pornography investigations.
Kik will send you an email with a link to delete your account permanently. If your profile has been searched for or sent messages to on their phone, it may take days to go away.
Now, you have the option of deactivating your Kik account. This will prevent others from messaging your Kik username, adding you on Kik, or saving your chat conversations for a few days until they are automatically erased.
Kik erases old communications automatically. It does not keep all of your chat histories, and once you have reached the maximum number of messages that you can save on Kik, it will automatically delete the previous conversations. On iOS, users may only see the last 1000 messages in their most recent chats.
Deleting Kik will not delete messages.
Kik messages do not delete when you delete the app. If you want to delete your Kik messages, you have to delete them manually.
Yes, Kik messages can be recovered, but only if they have been backed up to the cloud. If you have deleted your Kik messages, they cannot be recovered.
If you can no longer find the person in your contacts, it is likely they have deleted their account.
Kik photos are stored in the Kik app on your phone. They are not stored on Kik’s servers.
