How to Remove Reddit Authorized Apps

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Title: How to Remove Reddit Authorized Apps – On Any Device
Last Updated: November 29, 2024

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

This email will be sent to you once you authorize a new app using your Reddit account to log into a website or application.

If you haven’t recently signed into Reddit from another site, we advise against clicking any links present in the email. Should you be certain of the email’s authenticity, you may proceed to follow the links to revoke the app’s access.

Many browsers for Reddit—such as Apollo, Relay for Reddit, Delay for Reddit, Reddit is fun, Boost for Reddit, and others—have been reported as being authorized without user consent. The cause behind this remains unclear, and it is not attributed to the app or its developers.

2. Removing Authorized Apps on Reddit

It is important to note that merely changing your password is not enough to remove authorized apps from your Reddit account, as they operate using access tokens. Logging out of the app will not revoke permissions granted to Reddit either. Below are three effective methods that stopped a scheduled Reddit post with Social Rise from being successfully submitted:

Change your password and deauthorize all apps – Visit settings, modify your password, and select “Log me out everywhere,” especially if you believe unauthorized access has occurred.
Deauthorize all apps without altering your password – Go to account activity and fill out the “Log out of all other sessions” form.
Deauthorize a specific Reddit app – Head over to apps and click “revoke access” underneath the relevant app’s title.

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2.1. Restoring App Access

If you decide to restore permission for an app, simply log back into it using your Reddit account.

3. Viewing All Authorized Apps

To access a list of all apps linked with your Reddit account, proceed to

To access the list of apps, refer to the (found in privacy settings).

Each displayed app includes its permissions, a description, and information about the developers. By clicking on an app, you will be directed to its respective website. These applications depend on the specified permissions to operate based on your guidance, as they do not function independently. Hovering over a permission will reveal its function.

Example

To see which apps have accessed your Reddit account, visit the account activity page, where you can also monitor your usage history, including logins and locations.

3.1. What should you do if an app is not listed?

If you revoke an app’s access using any of the methods above, it will no longer appear in your list. If it’s still not visible, ensure that the username of the email corresponds with the account you’re currently logged into.

4. Unable to revoke authorization for Reddit on mobile web

When trying to revoke access for authorized apps on Reddit, you may observe Reddit on mobile web (installed).

The Reddit mobile web automatically gains authorization for every account.

This inherently included app cannot be revoked, as it is a first-party application solely developed by Reddit.

Another instance of such an app is Reddit Ads, which gets automatically authorized when you visit Reddit Ads while logged in.

Interestingly, Reddit on mobile web acquires automatic authorization even if you haven’t accessed the mobile site. Upon creating a new account from a desktop, this app is already included.

For additional questions regarding the mobile app, you can check out r/redditmobile.