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Revoke access

To revoke access is to withdraw a connected app’s previously granted permissions to access an account or its data.

In plain English

A connected app may be allowed to reach an account or the information in it. Those rights were granted earlier. Revoking access means taking those rights away.

In context

Here, "Revoke access" names the security action that withdraws a connected app’s existing permissions to access the account or its data.

Situation
Connecting integrations, syncing data, and running imports or exports
What it communicates
security action for removing a connected app's permissions

Meaning limits

The term itself identifies only the withdrawal of previously granted permissions, not the reason for it or any further result.

Examples

“When she stopped using the budgeting app, she revoked its access to her account data.”

Core meaning

“Access for the old fitness app was revoked after the account owner reviewed the linked apps.”

In context