How to remove an app or service from your Facebook account

Your Facebook account is not just a social account. It’s a serial ID much like a Google account. There was a time when app and service developers required users to create an account with them. Not only did this mean a more liberal onboarding process, it also meant users had more accounts to follow and more passwords to remember. Developers now offer users the option to sign up for apps or services with their Facebook account. Unfortunately, none of these services offer you the option to disconnect the service from your account. If you wish to remove any application or service from your Facebook account, you must do so through Facebook.

Delete Facebook App or Service – Web

Login to Facebook and click the dropdown arrow at the top right. Select Settings from the menu.

On the Settings page, select Apps in the left column. If you want to revoke specific permissions for an app, click the Edit button next to an app. If you want to remove an app or service from your Facebook account, click the corresponding suspend button.

Delete the app or service from Facebook – Application

Open the Facebook app and tap the hamburger button, scroll to below and tap Settings. There are several types of settings, but for that you need to tap on Account Settings.

Scroll down to the Account Settings screen and touch Apps. On the Apps & Websites screen, tap “Connected with Facebook”.

Here you can see a complete ribbon of all the applications and services that have access to your Facebook account. Touch the service or app you want to remove. On the app screen itself, you can edit the information you have input to. To remove it, scroll to the bottom of the screen and press the “Remove app” button.

When you remove an app or service from your Facebook account, you prevent the app from accessing future information. The apps still have access to your email account and deleting it from Facebook won’t undo this. If you want to delete the personal information collected so far, you should find out an option to delete your account with the application or service you deleted.

If you think deleting an app or service is unnecessary because you didn’t get all of your personal data from the app/service data bag, that’s not true. If you have a malicious app on your hands, you don’t want it to access more information than you already have. If you still have login to your account, you could edit on your behalf or spam your friends.

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