How to Remove Reddit Authorized Apps – On Any Device

 

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

 

When you’ve authorized a new app in your Reddit account by using it to sign in to a website or an application, you’ll receive this email.

We recommend refraining from clicking any links in the email if you haven’t signed in anywhere with Reddit recently. However, if you are confident in the email’s legitimacy, you can follow the links to Reddit to revoke app access.

Apps for browsing Reddit like Apollo, Relay for Reddit, Delay for Reddit, Reddit is fun, Boost for Reddit, etc., have been frequently reported as authorized without the user’s knowledge. The reason for this is unknown, but it is not the fault of the app or its developers.

2. Removing Authorized Apps on Reddit

To remove authorized apps from Reddit, changing your password alone is insufficient as apps utilize access tokens to operate from your account. Simply logging out of the app does not revoke Reddit app permissions either. Here are three successful methods that prevented a scheduled Reddit post with Social Rise from being submitted:

• Change your password and deauthorize all apps – Visit settings, change your password, and select “Log me out everywhere” especially if you suspect unauthorized access to your account.
• Deauthorize all apps without changing your password – Access account activity and submit the “Log out of all other sessions” form.
• Deauthorize a single Reddit app – Navigate to apps, and click “revoke access” under the app’s name.

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

3.1. What if an app is missing?

If you remove an app’s access through any of the above methods, it will disappear from the list. If it’s still missing, verify that the email’s username matches the account you are logged into.

4. Unable to deauthorize Reddit on mobile web

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

 

Reddit on mobile web automatically receives authorization for every account.

This built-in app is a part of Reddit and cannot be revoked, as it serves as a first-party application developed solely by Reddit.

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

Surprisingly, Reddit on mobile web obtains automatic authorization even if you haven’t accessed the mobile site. Upon creating a new account from a desktop, the app is already present.

For further queries about the mobile app, you can visit r/redditmobile.