How to delete third party accounts like twitter on your mac

With the launch of iOS 11, Apple removed the integration with Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Vimeo, a function that allowed iPhone and iPad users to store the information from those third-party accounts and access it within the applications they needed. use those services. However, and although this may change in the not too distant future, Apple still maintains such integration in macOS. Therefore, below we will tell you how to manually remove third-party accounts such as Twitter or Facebook from your Mac.

Goodbye to third party accounts on your Mac

Before you begin, you should be aware that the following instructions are only valid for deleting associated third-party accounts at the system level on your Mac. Of course, you can continue accessing your Twitter account just by logging in to the website of the service or through the official application for Mac, iOS, etc. In other words, you will NOT be deleting your account.

First of all, open the "System Preferences" app, either from the  icon in the desktop menu bar, either from the Dock, the Launchpad, the applications folder or using command + space and typing your name in Spotlight.

Next, select the "Internet Accounts" option in the preferences panel.

In the column on the right, select the account you want to delete, for example Facebook.

Now click on the “-” sign that you see under the accounts column. A new window will appear like the one you can see in the following screenshot.

To the question "Do you want to delete the Facebook account? You must choose "Deactivate account" if you only want to delete it from this computer, or choose "Delete from all" if you want to delete this third-party account from all your Mac computers.