Samsung Galaxy S4: How to Remove Email Account from Email App in Android 4.4 Kitkat

Nowadays, a lot of peoples use email messages to communicate each other, either for personal or business purpose. That's why it becomes important for a smartphone available today has an ability to allow the users to manage/check/use their email accounts directly from their devices. To meet that need, Samsung Galaxy SIV provides a stock Email app to their users. One more good thing with this app is the ability to manage multiple email accounts.

See also: How to Add Multiple Email Accounts in Email App in the Samsung Galaxy S4 with Android 4.4 Kitkat

Even so, there are some reason that may led you want to remove your email account that you have added in Email app, for instance when you want to clean up Email app or when you want to save more data by removing a rarely-used email account or else. As same as when you add email account, you can also delete email account from Email app with ease.


How to delete an email account from Email app?
Generally, there are two methods available that you can use to delete email account, through the Email app itself or through the Settings menu.

Method #1: From the Email app

1. Open Email app.
2. Tap the Menu key and then select Settings.
3. Tap Account settings to view all of your email account that you have added before.
4. Tap the Trash can icon at the top right corner of the screen.
5. Select the desired email account you want to delete.
6. Tap Delete button.
7. Tap OK button to confirm.
8. The selected email account will be deleted.

Method #2: From the Settings menu

1. Go to Settings.
2. Tap Accounts tab.
3. Tap Email. Here you can see all of your email accounts are listed under Accounts section.
4. Tap the desired email account you want to delete.
5. Tap Remove account.
6. Tap Remove account button to confirm.
7. The selected email account will be deleted.

FYI, once you delete an email account, all messages, contacts and other data within the email account will be deleted from your phone.