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How to Logout of Pinterest: Complete Guide

Posted on the 23 August 2017 by Jyoti92 @Jyoti_Chauhan1

Can’t log out of Pinterest? Are you wondering “how do I sign out of Pinterest”? In this tutorial, I’ve mentioned detailed steps on how to logout of Pinterest. So stay tuned for this article if you are facing trouble in logging out of Pinterest.

Pinterest is one of the widely recognized social media platforms to discover contents and bookmark or save them for later use. Pinterest is a content repository for discovering creative and amazing ideas on various topics like cooking, designing, fashion, handicraft and what not.

The best part of Pinterest is you can create your own boards and pin your interesting discoveries for later reference. You can follow other people and interest on Pinterest, like and comment on their posts and vice versa.

Besides, Pinterest has an intuitive interface and it receives millions of visitors every month. However, Pinterest is easy to deal with and there is nothing about Pinterest which can’t be understood, but still, people find it difficult to locate the logout option on Pinterest.

That’s the reason I’ve come up with the comprehensive tutorial on how to log out of Pinterest. So read along!

How to Logout of Pinterest

How to Logout of Pinterest: Complete Guide

The Pinterest is mostly used on three type of devices. The web version, Android and IOS (iPhone and iPad). So it will be really unfair if I mention steps to for just web users, Android or IOS.

Since it’s my obligation to provide information for each and every reader of this blog, I’ve divided my tutorial into three sub-sections. Where I’ll be mentioning detailed steps on how to logout of Pinterest in different devices.

So without making any unnecessary delay, let’s dig deeper into the article and figure out how to logout of Pinterest account on the web, Android and iPhone/iPad!

Part 1. How to Logout of Pinterest on the Web

Although signing out of Pinterest on your computer is not a one click job but admittedly, it’s not difficult as well. Let’s move further and check out what are the steps involved in signing out of Pinterest on the computer.

Step 1. First of all, go to the Pinterest official website and log into your account by entering your Login credentials. (Probably you are already logged).

How to Logout of Pinterest: Complete Guide

Step 2. Once you are done surfing the Pinterest and feeling like logging out from it, just move your cursor towards the profile icon on the top right corner. Now you need to click on this icon in order to go to your profile setting option.

See the screenshot below.

How to Logout of Pinterest: Complete Guide

Step 3. On the next page, You will see three dots on the top of the screen just beside the bolt icon. So just click on the three dots located on the top middle of the screen. To locate the option more easily, just have a look at the below screenshot.

How to Logout of Pinterest: Complete Guide

Step 4. On clicking the option highlighted in the above screenshot, a list of option will get abruptly opened. One of these options is Log Out. In order to log out of your Pinterest account, you need to click on this option.

You can understand this step better if you glance at the below screenshot.

How to Logout of Pinterest: Complete Guide

Now as sooner you click on the log out button, you will be signed out of your Pinterest account. Now you can log in to Pinterest again by going to https://www.pinterest.com/login/ and enjoy surfing Pinterest!

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Part 2. How to Logout of Pinterest on Android

If you are an Android user and prefer using Pinterest app your Android device, the above steps won’t help you log out of your Pinterest account. So in order to know how to logout of Pinterest on an Android device, follow the below steps.

Step 1. Since you are willing to know the procedure to log out of your Pinterest account, I assume you are already signed into your Pinterest account on your Android phone, if not, then enter your credentials and sign out of your Pinterest account.

Step 2. Once you are there on the homepage of your Pinterest account, just tap on the profile icon at the top right corner of your android screen. To help you locate the option easily, I’ve grabbed a screenshot. So have a look at the screenshot and tap the Profile icon.

How to Logout of Pinterest: Complete Guide

Step 3. In the next screen, you need to tap the bolt icon located at the top right corner of your screen. To know how the bolt option looks like, have a look at the screenshot below.

How to Logout of Pinterest: Complete Guide

Step 4. Once you click on the bolt icon, you will encounter a list of some setting options. The last option you see in the list is Log out. Have a look at the below screenshot.

How to Logout of Pinterest: Complete Guide

Step 5.  Now just tap the log out button and you will be logged out of your Pinterest account in no time. Now let’s see how do we log out from Pinterest on iPhone or iPad.  

Part 3. How to Logout of Pinterest on iPhone/iPad

The steps to log out of Pinterest on iPhone or iPad is again just a matter of a few clicks. Let’s see how do we do it.

Step 1. First and the foremost step is to launch the Pinterest app on your IOS device. Once done, just tap the profile icon exactly similar to what we did on Android.

But the only difference you will see on Android and IOS interface is the location of the profile icon.

In Android, the profile icon is located on the top, while in the iPhone/iPad, the location of profile icon is the bottom right corner. You can have a look at the below screenshot to see the profile icon on iPhone.

How to Logout of Pinterest: Complete Guide

Step 2. Once you tap on the profile icon, you will get redirected to your profile page. There, you need to go to the settings page of your Pinterest account. In order to do that, just tap on the gear icon located on the top right corner. A screenshot showing that option is given below.

How to Logout of Pinterest: Complete Guide

Step 3. That’s it. Now you are just a step away from signing out of your Pinterest. On the settings page, the last option you see is Log Out. Just tap on that option and you will be signed of your Pinterest account.

How to Logout of Pinterest: Complete Guide

With this, we have reached the end of the article and its time for us to wrap it up! I’m pretty sure you have now successfully signed of your Pinterest account regardless of which device you use Pinterest on!

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Conclusion:

So this was a detailed tutorial on how to log out of Pinterest.

Pinterest, however, is a very popular social media platform with millions of active users. But as they say, nothing is perfect so is the Pinterest. Pinterest is good and boasts many great features but the Logout option is are not easily located on the website.

Thus, the new users or the one who uses Pinterest on public computers find it little difficult to locate this option on the website.

But after going through this tutorial, I’m sure you won’t be facing such issues anymore.

So, it’s time for me to wrap it up. If you encountered any issues while following the steps, mention that in the comment section below. And if you found the article helpful, feel free to share it on your social mediums.


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