How to Delete a BeReal

BeReal Doesn’t Want You to Delete — But You Can

BeReal’s design philosophy is against deletion. The app wants you to post unfiltered reality and leave it there. But sometimes you post something you didn’t mean to, or a photo comes out badly, or you accidentally included something private. Deletion is possible, just not frictionless.

Deleting a BeReal Post

  1. Open BeReal and find the post you want to delete
  2. Tap the three dots (⋯) in the top right corner of your post
  3. Tap Delete my BeReal
  4. Confirm by tapping Delete

The post is removed from your friends’ feeds and from Discovery. It’s gone immediately — there’s no grace period or undo.

The Retake Limit

Here’s the important part: you can only delete and retake a BeReal once per day. After you delete your first post and take a new one, that second post is permanent. You cannot delete and retake again. This is intentional — BeReal’s whole premise is reducing the pressure to present a perfect image. Allowing unlimited retakes would undermine that.

If you delete your BeReal and don’t retake it, you simply won’t have a post for that day. Your friends won’t see anything from you. There’s no penalty for not posting — you just don’t appear in that day’s feed.

What Your Friends See

When you delete a BeReal, it disappears from the feed. Your friends won’t get a notification that you deleted it. However, if they already saw it or screenshot it before you deleted it, they still have that information. Deletion removes the post from the app, not from other people’s memories or screenshots.

BeReal does notify you when someone screenshots your post. If you’re thinking about deleting something because it was private, check whether anyone screenshotted it first — tap the screenshot icon on your post to see who did.

Deleting Your Account

If you want to delete your entire BeReal account (not just a single post): Settings → Help → Delete my account. This permanently removes your account, posts, and data. The process is immediate and irreversible — there’s no 30-day recovery window like some other platforms offer.