ADB2C | Delete User Flow

Question

Hi,
Is there a flow where a user can request his account to be deleted or can delete his/her account on it's own ?

Answer 1

@Abhay Chandramouli
Thank you for your post!

When it comes to a "Delete User Flow" within Azure B2C, you should be able to reference the Delete my account policy example, which allows a user to delete their account.

To delete an account, user needs to sign-in. The policy checks whether the account exists in the directory (specially for social account that user can sign-in first time). If account exists, the policy presents a warning page and let the user choose to continue. On continue, the policy invokes an Azure AD technical profile that deletes the account and present the account has been deleted message.

Note: Please keep in mind this is only possible with custom policies. If you don't want to use B2C custom policies, your application will have to call the Delete a user MS Graph API. For more info.

I hope this helps!

If you have any other questions, please let me know.
Thank you for your time and patience throughout this issue.

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Answer 2

As above, you can do this with custom policies.

Here's a short video that shows the basic steps.

Answer 3

How come there isn't a User Flow for this?

Answer 4

This is required by GDPR, so you would think there would be a User Flow to allow users to delete their information and accounts. Problem is that we have an app that has been up and running for over a year using User Flows. It is my understanding that you can either use User Flows, or you can use custom policies, but they don't work together. So as soon as we upload and engage a custom policy like this, everything we already have working may stop working, and we will have to troubleshoot to resolve. This is risky for a live app. But I guess we have no other choice.