How to Remove Reddit Authorized Apps

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Title: How to Remove Reddit Authorized Apps – On Any Device
Last Updated: January 13, 2025

1. Email You Receive When Reddit App Authorization Occurs with Your Account

This email is sent when you authorize a new app within your Reddit account by signing into a website or application.

If you haven’t logged in using Reddit recently, it’s advisable to avoid clicking on any links in the email. However, if you are sure about the authenticity of the email, you may proceed to follow the links to revoke the app’s access.

Users frequently report that apps for browsing Reddit, such as Apollo, Relay for Reddit, Delay for Reddit, Reddit is fun, Boost for Reddit, etc., are authorized without their awareness. The underlying reason for this remains unclear, yet it’s not a shortcoming of the app or its developers.

2. Removing Authorized Apps on Reddit

Simply changing your password isn’t enough to remove authorized apps from your Reddit account, as these apps use access tokens to function. Moreover, logging out of the app does not revoke its permissions. Here are three successful strategies that halted a scheduled Reddit post from being submitted with Social Rise:

Change your password and deauthorize all apps – Go to settings, alter your password, and select “Log me out everywhere” especially if you have concerns regarding unauthorized access to your account.
Deauthorize all apps without changing your password – Visit account activity and fill out the “Log out of all other sessions” form.
Deauthorize a single Reddit app – Go to apps, and click on “revoke access” beneath the app’s name.

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2.1. Restoring App Access

To re-authorize an app, simply sign into it again using Reddit.

3. Viewing All Authorized Apps

To see all applications connected to your Reddit account, navigate to
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apps (you can find the page in privacy settings).

Permissions, descriptions, and developers are displayed for each app. By clicking on an app, you will be directed to its corresponding website. These apps operate based on the permissions listed, following your instructions (they do not function independently). To learn more about a permission’s purpose, hover over it.

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To see which apps have accessed your Reddit account, check the account activity page. You can also track your usage history, including logins and locations.

3.1. What if an app is missing?

When you remove access from an app using any of the methods mentioned earlier, it will no longer appear in the list. If it’s still absent, ensure that the username on the email corresponds with the account you’re currently logged into.

4. Unable to deauthorize Reddit on mobile web

While attempting to revoke access for apps authorized on Reddit, you might see Reddit on mobile web (installed).

Every account automatically grants authorization to Reddit on mobile web.

This app is integrated into Reddit and cannot be revoked as it acts as a first-party application solely created by Reddit.

Another example of such an app is Reddit Ads, which receives automatic authorization when you visit Reddit Ads while logged in.

Interestingly, Reddit on mobile web is automatically authorized even if the mobile site hasn’t been accessed. The app is already in place when you create a new account using a desktop.

For additional inquiries regarding the mobile app, feel free to visit r/redditmobile.