How to Remove Reddit Authorized Apps

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Title: How to Remove Reddit Authorized Apps – On Any Device
Last Updated: December 6, 2024

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

Upon authorizing a new app via logging into a website or application with your Reddit account, an email notification will be sent to you.

If you haven’t recently logged in anywhere using Reddit, it’s advisable to avoid clicking any links in this email. Conversely, if you are certain about the email’s authenticity, you may proceed to click the links to revoke app permissions on Reddit.

Several apps, including Apollo, Relay for Reddit, Delay for Reddit, Reddit is fun, and Boost for Reddit, have often been reported as having been authorized without users’ consent. The cause of this occurrence remains unclear, but it’s not attributed to the apps or their developers.

2. Removing Authorized Apps on Reddit

Changing your password alone does not suffice to remove authorized apps from Reddit, as apps rely on access tokens to function through your account. Additionally, merely logging out of the app will not revoke its permissions on Reddit. Below are three effective methods for preventing a scheduled Reddit post from being submitted with Social Rise:

Change your password and deauthorize all apps – Go to settings, update your password, and check “Log me out everywhere” especially if you suspect any unauthorized access to your account.
Deauthorize all apps without altering your password – Visit account activity and complete the “Log out of all other sessions” form.
Deauthorize a single Reddit app – Head to apps, and press “revoke access” beneath the respective app’s name.

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2.1. Restoring App Access

To restore permissions for an app, simply log in to it again using your Reddit credentials.

3. Viewing All Authorized Apps

For reviewing all apps connected to your Reddit account, navigate to
“`apps (you can find this page in the privacy settings).

Each application shows its permissions, description, and developers. To visit the specific website of an app, simply click on it. These applications depend on the indicated permissions to operate according to your commands (they do not function independently). To learn about a permission’s purpose, hover over it.

Example

To view which apps have accessed your Reddit account, go to the account activity page. You can also monitor the history of usage, such as logins and locations.

3.1. What if an app is missing?

If you revoke an app’s access using any of the above methods, it will be removed from the list. Should it still be absent, check to ensure that the email’s username corresponds with the account you are currently logged into.

4. Unable to deauthorize Reddit on mobile web

While trying to revoke access from authorized Reddit apps, you might find Reddit on mobile web (installed).

This mobile web version of Reddit automatically receives authorization for every account.

As a default app developed strictly by Reddit, this built-in service cannot be revoked.

A similar type of app is Reddit Ads, which gets automatically authorized if you access Reddit Ads while logged in.

Interestingly, Reddit on mobile web acquires automatic authorization even if the mobile site hasn’t been used. When creating a new account via desktop, the app is already included.

For additional questions regarding the mobile app, visit r/redditmobile.