You own your canvases, and removing one is straightforward. It helps to know how your data is scoped first, because that determines what "your data" means whether you are working as a guest or signed in.
Deleting a canvas
You can delete a canvas from the Explorer or from the editor. Open the canvas's ⋯ menu (on its row or card, or in the Current Canvas section of the Explorer panel) and choose Delete. It goes straight away, without a question, because nothing is lost yet: a notification naming the canvas ("“Roadmap” deleted") appears with Undo, which puts it back where it was. It stays for about ten seconds, longer while your pointer is over it; after that the canvas is still in the Trash. Deleting the canvas you have open takes you to the Explorer, where the same Undo appears.
Deleting a canvas moves it to the Trash, where it waits for 30 days before it is removed for good, along with the content that belongs only to it, such as its tabs and comments. While it waits, its share links stop working and it disappears from your lists, and you can restore it with everything it had. To remove it straight away, delete it permanently from the Trash.
A copy of a tab you added to another canvas is that canvas's own, so it stays there. Canvases in This Browser have their own Trash in this browser.
If you have organised canvases into folders, you can also tidy up by moving canvases between folders or removing folders, separately from deleting the canvases themselves.
Deleting your account
When you are signed in, open Settings, go to Account, and choose Delete Account under Danger Zone. You are asked to type your email address to confirm, because this cannot be undone.
Deleting your account removes from the server, straight away:
- every canvas you own, including anything already in the Trash, with its tabs, comments and share links;
- your folders, images, shape libraries and preferences;
- your stars, your history and activity, and any community posts;
- your API tokens, which stops any script or connected AI tool at once;
- your Google Drive connection (livediagram's access is revoked at Google, and the files already in your Drive stay yours);
- your liveworkspace account itself, which also closes it for livediagram and the other liveworkspace apps.
Canvases in a team's shared library are not deleted with you: they pass to a remaining member, so the team keeps its work. A team you were the last member of is deleted, and its canvases, which are all yours by then, are deleted with your account. If email is set up, you get a short confirmation once it is done.
Your livediagram data goes first, then the account. If closing the account fails, livediagram says so and you stay signed in, so choosing Delete Account again finishes it. Canvases in This Browser were never on the server, so they stay in this browser until you clear its storage.
How your data is scoped
Where your data lives depends on how you are identified:
- As a guest, new canvases start offline, saved only in this browser, and any you share or sync are owned on the server by your per-browser id, stored in that one browser. Your data is scoped to that browser, so clearing the browser's storage removes the app's link to your guest content, and using a different browser or device shows a fresh, empty workspace.
- When signed in, your canvases are owned by your account and synced across every device where you sign in. Deleting a canvas removes it everywhere, because the account is the single source of truth.
A guest has no account to delete. To remove what you created as a guest, delete the canvases you no longer want and empty the Trash. Clearing the browser's storage deletes your canvases in This Browser, but only removes this browser's record of your guest identity: canvases you shared or synced stay on the server, out of reach from a fresh browser, so delete them first if you want them gone.
If you plan to clear your browser, sign in first if you want to keep anything. Your guest canvases on the server move into the account on sign-up. Ones in This Browser move only if you accept the offer to move them after signing in, so do that before you clear the browser.
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