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Open Waves, go to Settings — the face in the top corner of the home screen — and scroll to the bottom. The last card is "Delete my data".

That screen shows you what you are about to lose before you lose it: how many groups you are in, how many expenses you wrote, how many settlements you were part of, and whether anything is still outstanding. It also offers to export everything first, which is worth doing — once the deletion runs there is nothing left to export.

You then type DELETE to confirm. It happens immediately. There is no grace period and no way to undo it.

Write to hello@wavs.co.in from the email address the account uses, and ask for it to be deleted. We do the same thing from our side and confirm when it is done.

It has to come from that address, or be provable some other way. Anybody who can name an email address could otherwise delete a stranger’s account, and this is not undoable.

Uninstalling the app does not delete anything. It removes the copy on that phone; the account and the ledger stay, because the other people in your groups are still using them.

Your name, photo, payment handle, country, language and notification settings.

Your sign-in, so the account can never be opened again.

Your devices, your notification history, your purchases, and anything the receipt scanner recorded about how you used it.

The copy of the ledger on your phone is encrypted with a key held in that phone’s keystore, and signing out destroys the key — which makes the local copy unreadable whether or not you go on to delete the account.

The expenses and settlements in your shared groups remain, along with the notes and comments on them and the images you added — receipts, proofs of payment, trip photos. They are also other people’s records: they are what says who owes whom, and removing them would silently change somebody else’s balance to settle a debt nobody paid.

You become an unnamed former member of those groups. Your name is gone from them; your share of the dinner is not.

Two smaller things follow from the same rule. Notifications and activity entries already delivered to other people can still carry the name you had when they were written — they are in somebody else’s history, not yours. And if you give a reason when you delete, that text is kept with the link back to you removed.

The deletion itself is immediate — it is one transaction, not a queued job, so by the time the screen says it is done, it is done.

Two things outlive it by a fixed period and neither is under our control after the fact: crash reports, which are discarded after 90 days, and email delivery logs, which the provider keeps for at most a year. Neither carries the ledger.

Nothing is retained for advertising, and nothing is retained because a law obliges us to.