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How to revoke permissions granted to the app for submitting edits to the Box docs?

  • May 21, 2025
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I recently submitted a suggested edit to the docs at https://docs.box.com. This asked me to grant access to my Box account to an app (I think it was readme.io). I have three questions about this, the first of which is my main question:

  1. How do I revoke this access? I can't find it in either "Apps" or "Account settings" under the user drop-down in the top-right of the box UI.
  2. It said it was granting access to read all my files in my Box account. Why would this app need access to that?
  3. It said it was granting access to manage app users. I don't believe this is true as I wasn't adding it to my Box enterprise.

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    I believe as an admin, you can go to admin console -> enterprise settings -> apps and then you'll see something like below:

     

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    I'm not an administrator on the enterprise that I accepted the app on, so I can't look there myself. However, I would expect for a user who grants an app access to be able to revoke it themselves.

     

    (Btw, I could see the app under user menu -> Apps, but it didn't indicate in any way that I had already granted access. It still had an "Add" button.)

     

    I did manage to find under Account Settings -> Security -> Login activity it listed the "Interactive documentation" app, and there was an option to "forget" it. After clicking that and going back to the docs, and clicking "suggest edits", it asks me to grant access again, so I expect "forgetting" it has removed any access it had.

     

    It's really not clear though.

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