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Method: account.deleteAccount

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Delete the user’s account from the telegram servers.

Can also be used to delete the account of a user that provided the login code, but forgot the 2FA password and no recovery method is configured, see here » for more info on password recovery, and here » for more info on account deletion.

Parameters:

NameTypeDescriptionRequired
reasonstringWhy is the account being deleted, can be emptyOptional
passwordInputCheckPasswordSRP2FA password: this field can be omitted even for accounts with 2FA enabled: in this case account account deletion will be delayed by 7 days as specified in the docs »Optional

Return type: Bool

Can bots use this method: NO

MadelineProto Example (now async for huge speed and parallelism!):

if (!file_exists('madeline.php')) {
    copy('https://phar.madelineproto.xyz/madeline.php', 'madeline.php');
}
include 'madeline.php';

$MadelineProto = new \danog\MadelineProto\API('session.madeline');
$MadelineProto->start();

$Bool = $MadelineProto->account->deleteAccount(reason: 'string', password: $InputCheckPasswordSRP, );