Deactivate an account
You can deactivate your Robinhood joint and individual investing accounts in the app or on web classic.
Alternatively, you can transfer your individual, joint investing or IRA account to an outside brokerage company.
After you deactivate or transfer your account, you can continue to view your account records.
If you deactivate a managed account or a joint account, you can't reactivate it. All other accounts can be reactivated. Coming back to Robinhood has details.
Only individual investing accounts can be reactivated in the app or on the web. Other account types require assistance from our Support team.
To deactivate a self-directed taxable, individual investing account:
You can deactivate one or more of your individual investing accounts by following the steps in this section. However, you won't be able to reactivate any additional, self-directed individual accounts after you deactivate them. You can only reactivate your first or primary investing account. Also if you deactivate your first or primary investing account, you'll lose IPO Access and can't trade futures or crypto.
If you deactivate an individual account while you’re a co-owner on an active joint investing account, you may lose access to features in your joint account, such as Robinhood Gold, Stock lending, linking new bank accounts or debit cards, or Brokerage cash sweep program.
If you want to deactivate your joint investing account you’ll need to complete the following steps through the app:
You'll receive an email from us within 5-7 days to confirm your account closure or if necessary, next steps.
Joint accounts can’t be reactivated, and you won’t be eligible to open a new joint account after you deactivate it.
If you want to deactivate your Robinhood IRA:
*Unless you intend to take a reportable distribution from your IRA, be sure to transfer the assets directly to another custodian to avoid possible taxes and penalties.
Before closing a managed account, keep in mind that you can’t reactivate or recreate the same managed account type that you close. However, you can open a new managed account of a different type (e.g., Roth or Traditional).
If you want to close your account managed by Robinhood Strategies, refer to Managed account closure for details.
Before you start, make sure all of the following are resolved. These are the most common reasons deactivation doesn't go through:
Once you submit your deactivation request, here's what to expect:
Instead of closing your account positions, you can request to transfer your Robinhood IRA (ACATS transfer only), individual investing, custodial, Robinhood Strategies managed investing, and/or joint investing accounts to another brokerage company:
If you need help, contact us.
After your Robinhood account is deactivated, you’ll still be able to retrieve your historical account statements, tax documents, and trade confirmations in the app. Keep in mind, downloading the Robinhood app again won’t reactivate your account.
Regulations require us to preserve certain books and records. We take the security of all collected data extremely seriously, and we don’t intend to use this data for anything beyond the fulfillment of our regulatory requirements.
Deactivating your account doesn't result in any data deletion. Making a request to delete data won't delete or deactivate your account. If you want to delete your data, review Managing your personal information.