Unlinking old EA account from Xbox

Well, according to EA's own FAQs, it may be possible to restore a deleted account:

https://help.ea.com/en/help/account/close-ea-account/

Scroll to near the bottom and there is a "Restoring deleted accounts" section.

Beyond that, this thread may or may not be useful...it seems to be more aimed at restoring an account without access to the email but it still may be useful:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/EA-General-Questions/Unlinking-Dormant-deleted-Account-from-Xbox-without-old-email/

Either way, unfortunately, the only way to unlink it is from EA's end of things.

Hi Rolydog,

Greetings!

Thank you for posting in the Microsoft Community.

We understand that you need help with your Xbox account that you want to unlink to your old EA Sports profile.

To unlink an Xbox account from EA Sports profile, you should visit their support page where you can manage your EA Sport profile by there you will have an option to unlink or manage your profile there. Because if you will check on Microsoft support page there is no option to unlink or manage 3rd party accounts or in game accounts.

Here is the support page of EA Sport: EA SPORTS - Publisher of FIFA, Madden NFL, NHL, UFC, PGA TOUR, and F1 Video Games

Here is the support article that will guide you how to unlink your platform accounts from your EA Account: Unlink your platform accounts from your EA Account

-Go to the Connections tab in your EA Account settings portal..

-Find the account you want to unlink, and click the Unlink button next to it.

-Read the disclaimer and make sure you want to unlink, knowing all the risks.

-Check the box next to I understand and wish to continue.

-Click Unlink.

Regards,

Microsoft Community Moderator

You need to contact EA support to help you unlink your xbox account from EA account.

However keep in mind that if you unlink an Xbox gamertag from your EA Account, you can’t link a different Xbox gamertag to it in the future.

Hi Connor

Sorry to hear about that, however, the only way to unlink your Xbox profile to your old EA account is to log in on that old EA account first.

So since you're not able to log in on that old EA account anymore, you would need to reach out to EA so they can manually do it for you.

You may refer here: https://help.ea.com/en/help/account/unlink-gami...

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It turns out it wasn't an auto-created account, it was just a really old account that I haven't used in years. I actually found out that you can sign in with your Xbox account, I think directly on ea.com, I don't exactly remember though. There you can unlink your xbox account from the old EA account, and the next time you launch EA Desktop on Xbox, you sign in with your current EA account and it will ask you to link it. Sadly I can't change the account ID or anything because there's an old email on there that I can't access. Just try to look around for a "Sign in with Xbox" thing on an EA page somewhere, then you can unlink it without issues.