Lantern Ants
Account

Delete your Lantern Ants account and data

You can delete your account at any time, even if you no longer have the game installed. Choose the way that fits you.

1 In the game (fastest)

  1. Open Settings → Privacy & data → Delete account.
  2. Type the confirmation word and tap Delete account.

You need to be online. Your account is deleted straight away and the game starts a new guest colony on that device.

2 Without the game, if your account is linked to Apple or Google

  1. Tap Sign in with Apple or Sign in with Google below and use the same account you linked in the game.
  2. Check the username we show you, then tap Delete my account.

This runs exactly the same deletion as the button in the game.

3 Without the game, for a guest account (or if you cannot sign in)

Email privacy@lanternants.app with the subject "Lantern Ants account deletion" and include:

  • your username,
  • [[your support code (Settings → Privacy & data), if you can still see it]],
  • roughly when you started playing and which device you used.

We may ask a question to make sure the account is yours. We finish within 30 days and confirm by email. Do not send passwords or card details.

Note: guest accounts that are not linked to Apple or Google are deleted automatically after 180 days without use.

Write the email

What we delete

  • Your account and player record, your usernames and colony names
  • League history, Sparkle events and all-time totals
  • Cloud saves (all 3 kept versions)
  • Your notification registration (OneSignal)
  • Your purchase customer record at RevenueCat
  • Your usage analytics profile and its events (PostHog)
  • Your sign-in record (Firebase)
  • On the device you delete from: the local save, its backups and the widget data

What stays, and why

  • Purchases stay in your App Store purchase history, because Apple keeps it, not us. You can restore non-consumable purchases on a new account.
  • Crash reports (Sentry) are tied only to a random device ID, not to your account; they expire after about 90 days.
  • Support emails you sent us are kept for 2 years unless you ask us to delete them too.
  • A short list of IDs is kept for 48 hours so we can make sure no late data recreates your profile, then it is deleted.
  • Information the law requires us to keep, for example for tax or fraud prevention, if any.

Before you delete

  • Subscriptions are not cancelled by deleting your account. Cancel Colony Club in iOS Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions first.
  • Deletion cannot be undone. Your colony, league place and username will be gone.
  • Some third-party steps can take up to 24 hours to finish; we retry them automatically.

Delete only some data

You do not have to delete everything. You can:

  • turn off usage analytics (Settings → Privacy & data → Usage analytics),
  • reset ad choices (Settings → Privacy & data → Ad preferences),
  • ask us to delete specific data, for example a support conversation or your username from the all-time table, by writing to privacy@lanternants.app. We will tell you if there is anything we must keep.

Read the full Privacy Policy at lanternants.app/privacy.