How to delete your Figma account permanently

By Otabek Mamadaliev · Sources last reviewed 21 August 2026 · What this means

What happens to your drafts depends on your plan. On the Starter plan, files in your drafts become inaccessible — nobody can open them, including the client you sent a link to. On Professional, Organization and Enterprise, draft files are collected into a folder that only admins can reach. Either way, work you care about needs to move out first.

Before you delete

• Move client work out of drafts into a team, then transfer ownership of it to someone else.
• Export what you want a local copy of. Figma's formats — .fig, .jam and .deck — only open in Figma, so if you are moving to another tool, export to a portable format instead.
• Cancel your subscription. On a paid Professional plan this is required before deletion is even possible, and subscriptions are not cancelled automatically.
• Download your invoices. They are not accessible after the account is gone, and you will want them for accounting.
• Delete anything you want genuinely gone. Files outside your drafts are not removed by deleting your account — you have to delete them by hand first.

Paying for a team other people use? Figma's advice is to move the billing to someone else or downgrade the team to the free Starter plan before you go, so your collaborators do not lose access when your card leaves with you.

What happens to what you own

• Starter and Professional teams you own: if there are other members, ownership is reassigned automatically — to another admin, then to someone with edit access, then to someone with view access. Only if there are no other members is the team deleted.
• Organization and Enterprise teams: the team becomes ownerless but stays fully accessible, and an organization or workspace admin can claim it.
• Folders you own: become ownerless, still accessible, and can be claimed by team owners and admins.
• Files you own inside teams or folders: become ownerless and, unlike folders, cannot be claimed — though anyone with access keeps it.

Delete your account

1. Log in to Figma.
2. From the file browser, click your name at the top-left to open the account menu.
3. Select Settings.
4. On the Account tab, scroll to the Account section at the bottom.
5. Click Delete account and follow the prompts.

Figma warns that this is permanent and cannot be reversed — you will not be able to log in and the account is not recoverable. If you belong to an organization, you cannot do this yourself; an organization admin has to remove you.

Cancelling does not refund the remainder of an annual term except in the limited cases set out in Figma's renewal and cancellation terms.

Get your files out in a format that outlives Figma

Everything above is about who can reach your work inside Figma. This is about whether you can reach it at all afterwards, and the answer depends entirely on what you export.

• .fig files preserve everything — layers, components, prototypes — and open only in Figma. Take them, but do not mistake them for an archive you can read.
• PDF or PNG exports are readable forever and lose all the structure. Take these too, especially of anything a client might ask about in two years.
• Do it file by file. There is no export-my-whole-account button, so this is a manual pass through drafts, teams and folders.
• Fonts do not travel. A .fig opened later without the original fonts installed will not look like what you designed.

Ownerless files inside teams cannot be claimed by anyone. Folders can be claimed; files cannot. Anyone who already has access keeps it, but nobody inherits the ability to manage them — so a file everyone can open but nobody owns is the permanent end state. If a file matters to a team, transfer it deliberately before you go rather than leaving it in that limbo.

If you published to the Community

Plugins, widgets and files published under your Community profile are tied to that profile. Deleting the account takes the publisher identity with it, which matters if anyone else uses what you made.

A plugin that stops being available breaks other people's workflows silently — they simply find it missing one day. If you have published anything with real usage, the courteous move is to say so in its description before you go, or transfer it to a team profile that will outlive your account.

The same applies to community files people duplicate as templates. They will not vanish from the copies already made, but the source disappears along with any updates you would have made to it.