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description: Let external Experience Cloud site and Chatter users deactivate their own accounts. The results are identical to an administrator-initiated deactivation.
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# Enable User Self-Deactivation

Let external Experience Cloud site and Chatter users deactivate their own accounts. The results are identical to an administrator-initiated deactivation.

### Required Editions

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d37408e54 ">To enable external user deactivation option:</td>

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Note Deactivation is not the same as deletion. To learn more about deactivation, refer to Salesforce documentation about deactivating users.

1. From Setup, enter User in the Quick Find box, then select **User Management Settings**.
2. Enable **User Self Deactivate**.
3. Use developer or declarative tools to provide a mechanism for users to deactivate their accounts. In Experience Cloud sites built with Aura templates, the [Customizable User Settings component](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.rss_user_settings_customizable.htm&type=5&language=en_US) gives users the option to deactivate their account.

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Note In Experience Cloud sites using LWR or Visualforce templates, create a flow that external users can run to deactivate their own accounts without the help of an admin.

#### See Also

- [Delete Users](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.deactivating_users.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "While you can’t completely delete a user, you can deactivate a user’s account so they can’t log in to Salesforce.")